David Harbour Suggests Marvel's BLACK WIDOW Film Will Explain Her Sacrifice in AVENGERS: ENDGAME
This weekend at Comic-Con, fans got their first look at Marvel’s upcoming Black Widow film and everyone in attendance was blown away by the footage that was shared. This movie is going to be packed full of some awesome action and fight sequences. That’s not all, though. The film will also be filled with information that foreshadows the choices Scarlett Johansson’s character has made in the MCU.
David Harbour, who is set to play as Alexei, aka The Red Guardian, suggests that story will explain the ultimate sacrifice she made in Avengers: Endgame and some of the other decisions that she’s made over the course of the films that she’s been a part of.
"It's great because you get to go back a little bit in time with her, right? And you get to explore these events and that's one of the things that was interesting to me in the movie was because you know the events of Endgame so you get to explore how she got there and how she got there to make that choice."
That choice he’s talking about was they choice she made to throw herself off the edge of a cliff on Vormir so that her team and family could obtain the Soul Stone to stop Thanos. Harbour goes on to explain:
"I think that's the interesting part of her narrative is that we get to go back and explore this period of time between the events of Civil War and that particular arc. One of our things is we've known each other for a really long time and that relationship plays into the stuff that's come beyond. The great thing about knowing the end of an arc, you get to go back and either foreshadow or play against it and it's very joyful for fans to see these moments or prepped character beats come in at times."
It’ll sure make the movie even more interesting to watch, especially after knowing what her fate is. I’m glad that some of her history and past will be explored in this movie to fill in the blanks of her character.
Johansson and Harbour will be joined in the film by Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, and O-T Fagbenle. The film is being directed by Cate Shortland from a script by Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson.
Black Widow hits theaters May 1, 2020. Then we’ve also got The Falcon and The Winter Soldier in fall 2020, The Eternals on November 6, 2020, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on February 12, 2021, WandaVision in spring 2021, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 7, 2021, What If? In summer 2021, Hawkeye in fall 2021, and Thor: Love and Thunder n November 5, 2021.
In case you missed it, you can check out some poster art from the film here, which shows Black Widow fighting the villain Taskmaster.