Feige: Black Widow's Past to be Explored in Avengers 2 and Possible Solo Film

With Marvel’s schedule apparently mapped out until 2021, we’re likely to get films that spotlight smaller players in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (not just you, Ant-Man). And according to Marvel president Kevin Feige, that could include a Black Widow solo film.

In an interview with Total Film, Feige told the magazine that Black Widow’s past will be explored in Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron. He added that he would also like to bring that plot point into her own solo film.

“We start filming the next Avengers film at the end of March,” Feige told the magazine, “[Black] Widow's part in that is very big. We learn more about her past and learn more about where she came from and how she became in that film. The notion of exploring that even further in her own film would be great, and we have some development work with that."

Feige says that the landscape of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will change during the course of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the Avengers sequel will take off from there. He goes on to say that he wants to mimic the “rhythm” of the comic books, with the characters appearing in their own solo films, then teaming up for a “big event or crossover series.”

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We saw a hint of Black Widow’s Russian espionage origins in the first Avengers film. Could we see the other Black Widow, Yelena Belova, down the road?

But first, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow will play a major role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which opens April 4.

Via Comic Book Movie

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