10 Ways Superhero Movies & TV Shows Will Be Affected By Current World Events

10. There Could Be A Major Release Date Shuffle For The MCU

Black Widow has been postponed and will no longer arrive in cinemas as planned in late April/early May. This is a major blow for Marvel fans, but one that could have ramifications for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward.

Prime release dates aren't easy to come by, and if there's one thing a studio like Disney will not want to do, it's have three or four major blockbusters going head to head over the same weekend. Just imagine, for example, Black Widow squaring off with A Quiet Place: Part 2, Wonder Woman 1984, and Spiral: From The Book of Saw over the same three-day period.

In a scenario like that, there would be no winner, and in order to maintain some semblance of normality, Black Widow might have to take Eternals' release date in November, while that would then replace Shang-Chi in February (the latter is currently not shooting so could struggle to meet that date anyway).

The chronological nature of the MCU is likely to make this a necessity and, as you'll soon see, not even Marvel Studios will emerge unscathed over the next year or two...