"Black Widow" (2021)
If you've followed my blog at all or you know me, you know that I'm a Marvel guy. I appreciate DC and think they're great. I'm a huge fan of Batman and Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn, but my loyalties and primary allegiance will always be with Marvel. So, it pains me to admit that there was one key area where DC beat Marvel. DC was the first to have female solo headlining film in their extended universe when "Wonder Woman" hit theaters. Black Widow was the first (and for a time) only female Avenger. She should have had a solo movie back in 2012. Natasha Romanoff gets no respect. She wasn't even Marvel's first female led solo movie. That honor belongs to "Captain Marvel" and no shade to Carol, but come on. It should have been Nat. Then there was the utter disrespect shown to Nat in "Avengers: Endgame" and let's just say this solo movie had a lot riding on it for me. Not to mention, it was the first movie of Phase 4, the first MCU movie to be released during the pandemic, after its release date had moved three times. Let's not mention the lawsuit. Well, mention again after this.
Principal photography on "Black Widow" began in May 2019 and ended in October 2019. The film stars Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova/Black Widow, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason, Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster, William Hurt as Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Ray Winstone as Dreykov and Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff/Black Widow. The film was written by Eric Pearson, Jac Shaeffer and Ned Benson. It was directed by Cate Shortland. "Black Widow" premiered on July 9, 2021.
