After Avengers: Endgame, pretty much everyone knew that the Black Widow movie would be a prequel. How do you make a movie about someone who just died? Aside from bringing them back to life, though it looks like that won't be happening. Despite the fact that the movie will be set after Captain America: Civil War, it looks like the solo film will be expanding on Widow's choice to sacrifice herself in Endgame; assuming David Harbour is right of course.
David Harbour, who plays Hop in Stranger Things and will be the Red Guardian in Black Widow, revealed this little tidbit during the big Hall H panel in SDCC (via ComicBook.com). He loves how we get to see more of Widow's story post-Civil War and how that will eventually lead to her heart-breaking sacrifice. It's always intriguing knowing the end of someone's story and seeing it fleshed out a bit after the character has passed.
"It's great because you get to go back a little bit in time with her, right? And you get to explore these events and that's one of the things that was interesting to me in the movie was because you know the events of Endgame so you get to explore how she got there and how she got there to make that choice."
"I think that's the interesting part of her narrative is that we get to go back and explore this period of time between the events of Civil War and that particular arc. One of our things is we've known each other for a really long time and that relationship plays into the stuff that's come beyond. The great thing about knowing the end of an arc, you get to go back and either foreshadow or play against it and it's very joyful for fans to see these moments or prepped character beats come in at times."
We'll finally get to see more of Natasha's story in the solo Black Widow movie, which is currently scheduled for a May 1, 2020, release.
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