Will There Be a Black Widow 2?

| July 9, 2021 |

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Black Widow Movie Poster — *Photograph: Disney/Marvel*

Marvel's Black Widow is Scarlett Johansson's swan song as multi-skilled spy Natasha Romanoff. The film, which was delayed by over a year after the pandemic changed theatrical release schedules every bit nosotros once knew them, is a prequel that takes place in the MCU timeline between Captain America: Civil State of war and Avengers: Infinity State of war so that we tin can spend one terminal mission with Natasha before she sacrifices her life in Avengers: Endgame .

In Black Widow , we catch up with Natasha on the run from the Usa regime and reliant on a host of Russian connections from her past – spies and assassins she can only trust in varying degrees – to finally complete a mission she started a long time agone. The stakes are high but the peril is low because nosotros know that Natasha makes it through the events of the moving-picture show alive and in one slice, but it'south yet a hugely constructive action blockbuster that feels a bit more than brutal than most MCU efforts. But where does all of this exit a potential Black Widow ii ?

Johansson is very happy with how the flick turned out, but much like Robert Downey Jr. before her, she'due south done playing her Marvel character.

"Honestly, I experience similar it's e'er, it feels dandy to get out a party when information technology's still raging and I call up that this moving-picture show feels very much like it's alive and fresh and powerful and I feel really pleased with it," she confirmed with Comicbook . "I feel really happy with the work that nosotros've done for this decade of time and, yous know, it'southward bloodshot to say, 'Goodbye,' but if you dear something, you need to set it gratis!"

She echoed this sentiment in other interviews, as well.

"I'm going to miss non seeing [the Marvel family] every eighteen months or two years, similar those kind of milestones I always actually look forward to," the extra mused during an advent on Proficient Forenoon America . "But I feel really proud of this film and I think it's slap-up to go out on a high note. This movie is so different from any other Marvel film nosotros've washed so far, so yep… like I said, information technology'southward bittersweet."

But despite Johansson's intention to leave the Curiosity playground, we may not have seen the last of Black Widow. The character'due south MCU prequel moving-picture show introduces someone familiar to fans of Marvel Comics: Yelena Belova, who also adopted the codename Black Widow in myriad stories.

Midsommar 's Florence Pugh plays Yelena in Blackness Widow , and the character is set to re-emerge post- Avengers: Endgame in Marvel's Disney+ Clint Barton spinoff series, Eagle . And then, is there a chance that a Black Widow sequel film could happen despite Johansson's MCU exit?

"I think post-obit a dissimilar character, yep," Black Widow managing director Cate Shortland told Radio Times . "I remember Scarlett is really happy that she's leaving the party, you know, and she's not the final to leave. She decided she wanted to go. And I don't think she would desire to come up back at the moment."

Shortland has also confirmed that she would exist up for returning to helm a Black Widow sequel for Curiosity: "I mean, all the cute fights and the spectacle, and I think merely creating something really fun and joyous is pretty addictive. So yes, I would practise information technology again. Yep. I feel really happy about it. Normally I feel dread when I take something coming out, merely this time, I feel actually happy. I recall because it was such a grouping effort."

We may accept seen the terminal of Natasha Romanoff, but Blackness Widow'southward future is still unknown.

Curiosity's Hawkeye is currently eyeing a late-2021 Disney+ release engagement. Black Widow is in theatres now and available to stream via Disney+ Premier Access.