10 Upcoming Movies That Have Ignored Major Mistakes

4. Releasing YEARS Too Late - Black Widow

The Mistake

Though there's no doubt that Marvel Studios' upcoming Black Widow solo movie will be an easy commercial success - whenever it ends up hitting cinemas, that is - doesn't it rather feel like they should've released this movie years ago?

Given that the character was first introduced to the MCU in 2010's Iron Man 2, and the first female-led MCU movie didn't arrive until Captain Marvel last year, is it really acceptable that the franchise's frontline superheroine waited an entire decade to get her own movie?

More to the point, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) freaking died in a movie released almost a year ago, fully elucidating just how thoroughly late to the party Marvel is with the film - no matter that it's a prequel.

Again, while Black Widow will certainly perform well at the box office, the relatively low-flying hype underpins a film that could've pulled gangbusters business were it released in the midst of, say, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The Lesson

Similarly, there might've been greater interest in a Han Solo (Harrison Ford) origin story if they made it before the character was bumped off in earnest in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Instead, it was indifferently received by critics and audiences alike, shocking the world by tanking at the box office.

Black Widow will be fine commercially, but it's quite probable the movie itself is just another ho-hum Marvel adventure rather than a genuinely captivating solo outing in its own right.