12 Marvel Movies To Make Phase 4 "Distinctly Different"
4. Black Widow
Difference doesn't always have to be wild: Marvel could strike a victory for diversity simply by introducing only their second female-led stand-alone after Captain Marvel by giving Black Widow her own long-awaited vehicle.
To Feige's credit, he has spoken in more positive terms about the possibility:
“Yes, for sure, I think [Black] Widow at some point would be great. But when you start talking about things that are now four/five years away… sometimes we do that. Doctor Strange as been talked about for ten years. But we’re focused on the next nine movies, which is a lot, between now and 2019.”
So maybe it's on the cards after all.
The Challenges
The only challenge in getting a Black Widow film to screen is the hurdle of Marvel's own insistence that it wouldn't work. Thanks to the ridiculous ghost of Aeon Flux, any early plans for Black Widow's stand-alone were killed, but this is an entirely different marketplace now and Widow is an established brand within the MCU in her own right.