Although pretty-much confirmed at this stage, Marvel are yet to give Scarlett Johansson's long-gestating Black Widow film the full press release treatment, with reports of Blacklist's Jac Schaeffer writing the script the only thing to go on so far.
And yet, the weirdest thing about the Black Widow film is that it's taken so long to happen in the first place. This should've been a Phase Two project, let alone a fourth one, and while it's not exactly a case of 'too little, too late', it's frankly bizarre that it's taken eight actual years to get off the ground.
Still though, there's a high chance that Black Widow could yet occupy a place in Marvel's 2020 slate, or even the year afterwards. There's certainly no shortage of ideas for a potential Widow film, and with Marvel now playing catch-up with DC in regards to women-led comic book features, it's clear that the company have plenty of ground to make up in more than one respect.
Natasha Romanoff has been the face of the MCU for years now. Making a spin-off should never have been this difficult.
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.
