10 Reasons Why Marvel Will Never Make A Solo Black Widow Film

5. Audience Fatigue

Barring huge changes to Marvel's release schedule, the earliest we could possibly see a solo Black Widow movie is 2020 and that's assuming Natasha is even given one of the mystery titles that Marvel recently announced. Black Widow has been hanging around the Marvel Cinematic Universe longer than people realise. Sure, Natasha hit the spotlight in The Avengers, stunning audiences with that incredible chair sequence, but the sultry spy actually first appeared onscreen two years before in Iron Man 2. If a Black Widow movie did materialise in 2020, ten years will have passed since her first appearance. Hardcore fans may object to this, but would the general public still be excited about a movie starring a character who's appeared in almost every Marvel film for the past decade? By 2020, Captain Marvel will have already been released, so from Marvel's point of view, fans longing for a female led movie will have already been at least partly placated by a hero who doesn't risk overexposure. If Black Widow isn't given one of the mystery release slots for 2020, then it remains doubtful that Marvel Studios would remain committed to a solo movie past this stage.