When Does the ‘Black Widow’ Movie Take Place?

Marvel Studios is on the point of head into its future with out a few of its most bankable stars, however the subsequent section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes to start with what might be one final hurrah for certainly one of them — Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow. Though it’s been a bit complicated about how this entire factor is gonna work after Natasha died in “Avengers: Endgame.”

The reply, in fact, is that the long-awaited “Black Widow” film is a prequel, however so far the advertising has not even actually tried to speak when within the timeline of the MCU the movie takes place. Though definitely there are any variety of instances when Natasha may have gone off on some facet journey, there aren’t loads of locations the place it could really make sense to place this story.

What loads of people are assuming about this movie is that it’s going to permit the MCU to have its cake and eat it too — that’s, it should introduce us to the new Black Widow: Yelena Belova, who’s performed on this film by Florence Pugh. Pugh is the kind of star on the rise that the parents answerable for the MCU would most likely wish to preserve round, and because the franchise pushes into ever-more-cosmic territory, it’ll at all times be helpful to maintain a few of these extra grounded heroes round to assist everybody preserve their sanity.

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So realistically, “Black Widow” would wish to happen late sufficient within the timeline that it wouldn’t really feel like an excessive amount of of a stretch that Natasha hasn’t talked about Yelena within the different motion pictures. And David Harbour, who performs the Red Guardian within the movie, advised IGN that the movie takes palce within the spot on the timeline that I feel makes essentially the most sense: between “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”

This is smart simply because there’s a two yr hole there the place we all know mainly nothing about what Natasha, Captain America (Chris Evans), Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and the remainder of the parents on Team Cap received into. They had been on the run throughout this per, hiding out doing who is aware of what.

That placement, in fact, makes us marvel if Evans and Mackie and the remainder of that crew will make appearances in “Black Widow,” simply because it could be unusual for this wild story to go down with them simply hanging out again on the safehouse.

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It’s been rumored that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) will seem in some capability. While which may not sound like it could make loads of plot sense, it could definitely be thematically acceptable what with Natasha having labored shut with Iron Man for the majority of the primary two phases of the MCU. Remember, Black Widow first popped up again in “Iron Man 2.”

Fortunately, we gained’t have to attend too lengthy for solutions, as “Black Widow” hits theaters on May 1.