Marvel May Be Forced To Delay Black Widow Movie

The spread of COVID-19 has certainly had a major effect on the entertainment industry.

Not only have major events like Seattle City's Emerald City Comic Con and Disney's European launch event for Disney+ have been canceled, but movies like Not Time to Die have shifted its premiere because of how the novel coronavirus might affect Asian box office markets.

While it seems like a safe move for Metro Goldwyn Meyer and Universal to shift No Time To Die from its April 10 global launch to Thanksgiving, Deadline speculates that other films may be affected by COVID-19 as well. Sure, Marvel's very first Phase 4 movie, Black Widow, is still slated to release on May 1, but there's no knowing when exactly the coronavirus pandemic is going to slow down. Disney might be adamant about keeping the May 1 release date of the upcoming Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) standalone movie right now, but if the pandemic were to continue well into April, then the studio might not have any other choice but to movie Black Widow to a later date.

According to Deadline, industry insiders have heard rumors that the House of Mouse plans to move Natasha Romanoff's standalone movie to Marvel's Eternals release date on November 6, but Marvel Studios insists that that's not really the plan at hand right now.

Marvel may sing a different tune when COVID-19 starts spreading even further across the globe. Right now there are 114,000 cases of the novel coronavirus around the globe with 4,000 deaths and 62,000 recoveries.

Black Widow is set to premiere on May 1, 2020.

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