'Black Widow' Trailer Finally Brings Us To Natasha's Dark Origins

The first trailer for Black Widow is finally here and we have seriously been waiting forty long years for this moment!!

A standalone story for the Avenger has been demanded for years, and she’s one of the only original MCU heroes to have not had her own film by this point. But fortunately, finally, that’s all about to change.

The film is reportedly set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, and centers around Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) going to back to where it all began for her. In the comics, the Black Widow was notoriously trained as a Russian spy and assassin along with other young girls in a dark origin story revolving around the Red Room.

The movie looks to be holding onto those origins, and has Natasha meeting up with a very apt fighter she calls her sister (Florence Pugh) and two other assassins from her past (Rachel Weisz and David Harbour). We can already see that it’s going to be jam-packed with the action and dry wit we’ve come to expect from MCU films, but Black Widow has its work cut out for it as it also aims to balance all that with Natasha’s innately dark origins.

“Where we find Natasha in her life at this point is very specific,” Johansson told Entertainment Weekly in July. “She really is in a dark place where she’s got no one to call and nowhere to go. She’s really grappling with her own self. When something huge explodes and all the pieces are landing, you have that moment of stillness where you don’t know what to do next — that’s the moment that she’s in. In that moment, you actually have to face yourself.”

Black Widow was directed by Cate Shortland and written by Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson. It will serve to introduce Harbour’s Red Guardian (Russia’s answer to Captain America) along with Weisz’s Malena who has also gone through the Red Room a number of times.

The film is set to be released in May of 2020, and will kick off the next phase of MCU films.