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The first 'Black Widow' trailer is out and it's an action-packed family reunion
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(CNN)It's official: Marvel's Black Widow has a movie -- and now she has a past, too.
A trailer for "Black Widow," the long awaited feature film about the mysterious heroine of the Marvel movie universe, premiered Monday -- and it is about time.
Fans first learned over the summer at Comic-Con that Black Widow would finally get her own feature film after seven appearances in Marvel movies. Monday's trailer gave them a release date: May 2020.
What else did we learn? Black Widow, also known as Natasha Romanoff and played by Scarlett Johansson, has referred to the Avengers as her family throughout the franchise, which has included only quick flashbacks and allusions to her origins. But the trailer shows a gathering of family from her past complete with precisely choreographed combat and dry comedic jabs.
"One thing's for sure, it's gonna be a hell of a reunion," Johansson says in the trailer.
Joining the cast are Florence Pugh of "Midsommar" as Yelena Belova; Rachel Weisz of "The Favourite" as Melina Vostokoff; and David Harbour of "Stranger Things" as Red Guardian.
The movie is rumored to fall in the Avengers timetable shortly after "Captain America: Civil War."
Amid all the action, Johansson and Weisz have said the movie will dig into the characters of the three women.
"I think you'll learn about what Natasha is afraid of, and I think you'll learn about what parts of herself she's afraid of," Johansson told CNN. "You really see her in, like, a pretty broken-down place, and she kinda has to build herself back up."
"There's three really beautifully written complicated female narratives, which is very unusual in a superhero movie," Weisz said.
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In her own Marvel stand-alone picture, the title hero, an ex-KGB assassin, springs into action after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.”
“I used to have nothing,” the title character, played by Scarlett Johansson, says in the first trailer for “Black Widow.” And “then I got this job, this family, but nothing lasts forever.”
Nothing except, it seems, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first entry in the series since the apparent finale, “Avengers: Endgame,” in April, this stand-alone spinoff flashes back to the events following the 2016 film “Captain America: Civil War.”
Johansson’s character, Natasha Romanoff, has been separated from her Avengers cohorts, although we see glimpses of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). She returns to her native Russia and reunites with her makeshift former family — after engaging in some hand-to-hand combat with her “sis,” Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh).
Along with the parental figures Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Iron Maiden (Rachel Weisz), the ex-KGB assassin Natasha vows to take care of “unfinished business.” Naturally, it involves riding motorcycles, shooting guns and jumping out of helicopters.
“Black Widow,” directed by Cate Shortland, hits theaters on May 1.
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Because I guess Marvel and Disney couldn’t let MGM and Universal go first, we now have the teaser trailer for Black Widow. Thus begins the flurry of pre-Jumanji/Star Wars theatrical trailers. We’ll get a No Time to Die teaser tomorrow and we might get a teaser for Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters sequel this week as well. Oh, and we’ll be getting the first Wonder Woman 1984 teaser this Sunday along with (speculation) another Dolittle trailer with Cats, another Birds of Prey trailer, the first look at A Quiet Place 2 and the teaser for Fast & Furious 9 (unless they wait until the Super Bowl).
But you came here to watch (or read about) the first Black Widow trailer.
Yes, it’s a post-Civil War (and pre-Infinity War) prequel to kick off Marvel’s Phase Four, starring a character for whom fans have wanted a stand-alone movie for years and yet now gets one just after that character gets killed off. Whether Black Widow’s onscreen demise in Avengers: Endgame will make this prequel flick more enticing or more bittersweet is an open question. And, yeah, as a seemingly stand-alone family melodrama (Florence Pugh co-stars as her sister Yelena, David Harbour is her dad, Alexi/The Red Guardian and Rachel Weisz is her mum Melina), this could be the lowest-grossing MCU summer kick-off movie since Thor back in 2011.
Cate Shortland’s Black Widow seems to be the first MCU movie that can be classified as a straight genre film as opposed to a superhero appropriation of a genre flick. This flick looks and feels, thus far, like less male gaze-y versions of Jennifer Lawrence’s Red Sparrow ($151 million on a $69 million budget in 2018), Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde ($100 million/$30 million in 2017) and Sasha Luss’s Anna ($31 million in 2019). That’s not a criticism, as I liked, to varying degrees, all three of those “young and attractive Russian woman ends up working as a covert KGB assassin” flicks, and this one will obviously deal with its protagonist long after she broke free from the “programming.”
On one hand, this “just a movie” notion could make Black Widow less of an “event” compared to previous MCU films. Think, relatively speaking, Solo: A Star Wars Story ($394 million on a $275 million budget) whose greatest artistic asset (it was just a space western/heist flick that happened to be set in the Star Wars universe) was its biggest commercial flaw. Now, there’s a big difference between “some guy” (Alden Ehrenreich) who isn’t Harrison Ford playing a young Han Solo versus Scarlett Johansson reprising her defining franchise role in an MCU flick. If audiences want to specifically see Johansson as Black Widow in an MCU spy actioner, then they’ll show up.
First Black Widow trailer finally puts Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel hero in the spotlight
The Avengers’ main storyline may have come to an end in Avengers: Endgame this past April, but the first trailer for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is a reminder that Marvel Studios isn’t done with its original crew.
Black Widow is the highly anticipated stand-alone movie focusing on Natasha Romanoff’s blood-stained past. The movie takes place in the two year gap between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. That also explains how Marvel can do a Black Widow movie in the first place, considering Romanoff sacrifices herself to ensure the Avengers can secure the Soul Stone in an effort to take down Thanos.
Although this is the first trailer released to the public, a lengthier version was shown off at Disney’s biennial D23 fan convention in August. The trailer focused on Romanoff’s trip to Budapest — a location that Clint Barton (Hawkeye) referenced multiple times in various Avengers movies, including Endgame. This trailer contains an impressive scene between Romanoff and a woman named Yelena Belova. Belova becomes the second Black Widow in the comics series, and is referred to as Romanoff’s sister in the trailer.
Fans have waited a long time for a Black Widow stand-alone movie. Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige first mentioned that conversations about a stand-alone Black Widow movie were ongoing back in 2010, following the release of Iron Man 2 and just before 2012’s The Avengers. Johansson’s Black Widow made her first appearance in Iron Man 2 as Pepper Potts’ assistant-turned-lethal-assassin-and-SHIELD-spy, and developed the role further in The Avengers. Feige and other Marvel executives reiterated throughout the years that both the company and Johansson were interested in doing a spinoff movie, but nothing was officially announced until 2018.
Johansson is one of the last original Avengers to receive a solo project. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth all starred in multiple individual movies (Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor respectively), while Jeremy Renner is set to have his own Hawkeye series on Disney+. Mark Ruffalo is the only original Avengers cast member who can’t have his own Hulk movie, as Universal Pictures owns the rights to any stand-alone Hulk movie. Feige and the team developed a three-picture arc for Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner that took place over Thor: Ragnarok, Infinity War, and Endgame instead.
Black Widow will mark the beginning of Marvel Studios’ Phase 4 when it’s released on May 1st, 2020. The Eternals will follow on November 6th.
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Black Widow is finally getting her own MCU movie. But its new trailer opens like another “Avengers” installment.
Marvel dropped the first teaser Monday for “Black Widow,” starring Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff in the studio’s first female-driven solo adventure since “Captain Marvel.” The beginning of the trailer plays more like an ensemble flick, though, as flashbacks featuring Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury haunt Natasha’s memory.
“I used to have nothing,” her voice plays over the MCU montage. “Then I got this job — this family. But nothing lasts forever.”
The remainder of the footage focuses on its main heroine, joined by some new faces poised to make their Marvel debuts. The spinoff follows Natasha back to her spy roots, trading her Avengers family with her Russian family of sorts — played by “Midsommar” breakout Florence Pugh, “Stranger Things” star David Harbour and Oscar winner Rachel Weisz — for a mysterious quest.
“We have unfinished business,” Natasha says after an intense faceoff with Pugh’s Yelena Belova. “We have to go back to where it all started. One thing’s for sure. It’s going to be a hell of a reunion.”
“Black Widow” is the first Marvel movie to center on Johansson’s character, though the actress recently told The Times that the project has been in development for about as long as she’s been in the MCU.
“It’s something that we’ve talked about for probably eight years or something like that,” she said at Comic-Con earlier this year. “I don’t know why it’s taken so long. It’s happening at the right time for me, though, so that may be part of it.”
The film is just one of several Johansson vehicles to hit screens during what has been a busy time for the industry veteran. She also stars in two 2020 Oscar hopefuls, “Jojo Rabbit” and “Marriage Story.”
“Black Widow” will explore how Natasha came to be a sharp-witted, scene-stealing assassin, set before the events of “Avengers: Infinity War.” The highly anticipated prequel, directed by Cate Shortland, hits theaters May 1.
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