

At first brush, it plays like a good old-fashioned espionage movie about a girl(s) getting kidnapped and brainwashed by grumpy Russian spymakers. But even for the Marvel faithful, the chronology of Black Widow might throw a viewer for a few loops. If you’ve been following every single Marvel product with a magnifying glass, then this news isn’t surprising.

And if you’re expecting this movie to continue where other recent MCU offerings like Endgame or WandaVision left off, well, sorry! The story of Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, the titular Black Widow, is not a sequel to the ongoing and expanding universe, spread across film and TV it’s a sideways prequel thingamabob with a teeny bit of retcon origin-story action. The first new Marvel Studios feature film since 2019 has arrived.
