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Black Widow 2020

I feel like Harbour is going to overshadow ScarJo in her own movie.

Comes across as a mix of Atomic Blonde and Goldeneye. Only minus is Taskmaster, I wanted the skullface and white hooded cape, instead of Cyber-Skeletor.
 
I'm worried about them doing a remix of all those Fat Thor jokes from Endgame with Harbour.
 
Ouch, why'd they have to end it with her jumping and falling a long way? :( Especially given the opening lines.

I could stand to listen to that music a few more times.
 
We have to thank Isaac Perlmutter for that (and a bunch of other things), notably how he sidelined Black Widow getting merchandise because female superheroes "wouldn't sell".

He is no longer part of Marvel Studios, but his decisions hindered any BW related stuff.
 
"Eh" seems like a pretty good summary for that trailer. I like a good spy movie, but there's no clear hooks to this beyond "hey Black Widow finally got a movie." I suppose there's also "We get to learn about her past" but Widow's past in the MCU is a bit like Wolverine's past in the comics: it's interesting because it's mysterious, with only just enough info provided in past movies to give you the shadowy contours of her life.

To my mind if you're going to do a spy movie within the MCU you need to include just enough fantastical elements to distinguish yourself from something like Mission Impossible or Jack Reacher. Winter Soldier is a good example of this, being largely a lean and mean spy thriller, but full of jetpacks, super soldier cyborgs, and flying aircraft carriers. Black Widow probably doesn't need quite as much of all that as Captain America, but I've always been of the opinion that a movie focusing on her is an awesome opportunity to make use of Marvel's weird old Soviet characters, of which there are many. Red Guardian's inclusion is a promising sign, but he doesn't appear to be doing anything too fantastical here. I suspect stuff like that is probably in the movie somewhere, we're just not seeing it at the moment.

This may be a result of being an early trailer. Early trailers always have unfinished effects these days, and the biggest CGI shots are likely not ready to showcase. For now, though this wets the whistle. The second trailer will need a little more "oomph."
 
I wonder how many times people will accidentally write Black Window in this thread.
 
I don't mind Harbour playing a husky guy if it's not joked as hard as Thor was. More husky heroes! Husky heroes for all!
 
Looks interesting enough, though I do wonder where it fits in canon. I assume it takes place in the years between the Blip but that seems like an odd step backward for the story.
 
Crack theory: Taskmaster is a girl.

She's wearing gender-neutral armor and everyone just assumes she's a guy.

An evil Samus Aran in a spy thriller.

VolantRedX said:
Looks interesting enough, though I do wonder where it fits in canon. I assume it takes place in the years between the Blip but that seems like an odd step backward for the story.
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Supposedly it's somewhere between Civil War and Infinity War.
 
My money's on at least one of two things happening:

The film introduces a second Black Widow that will appear in future films.

A concept will be introduced in this film that will seem minor at first but in as the MCU goes on will snowball into the next big threat.
 
tankdrop24 said:
My money's on at least one of two things happening:

The film introduces a second Black Widow that will appear in future films.

A concept will be introduced in this film that will seem minor at first but in as the MCU goes on will snowball into the next big threat.
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Could also do a clone or something. Then all the characters that died could sorta come back.
 
Amazing. This film will make more money than Endgame for that alone.
 
Black Widow should be recreated with the help of Spiderman's genes.

So the new Black Widow is her own mother and Spiderman's daughter.

No one's ever really gone.
 
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