Speaking of defection, if any Widow film were to root itself primarily in prequel territory, then seeing her cross paths with Hawkeye for the first time would make for a fantastic sequence.
While the details surrounding Widow's defection are light, we do know that Clint Barton was responsible for convincing her to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Having been assigned a kill-order on Black Widow, Hawkeye instead chose to bring Nat (then Natalia Romanova) back to the United States, forming a partnership that would span years both on and off the books - militarily speaking, of course.
Any Black Widow film needs to make Nat the primary focus, and while the story of Black Widow and Hawkeye's first encounter could form the basis for a film of its own, it might make more sense for it to take a back seat in a film centred around Widow herself. Not that it's not worth including of course; just that - if it is - it's important to keep the spotlight on Natasha.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
