Things might’ve ended much differently for Black Widow if the Marvel timeline was altered, but not just cinematically — also in real life. By the time the film Black Widow arrived in theaters in 2021, Scarlett Johannson had not simply portrayed the character. To audiences worldwide, she was the character; and Black Widow was crucial for not just the foundation of the MCU, but also its overall makeup. The 2021 movie introduced two critical characters into the MCU: her sister Yelena Belova and fellow Red Room product, and her father Alexei Shostakov a.k.a. The Red Guardian — both of whom owned the screen in 2025’s Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers). Is that something that would’ve occurred if Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao had penned the storyline, or would it have been more grandiose?She’d ultimately settle in for Eternals, a film with a scope that excited her in a different way, and one that, though it hasn’t gotten a green light for a sequel, did achieve the task of introducing the Celestials to the cinematic universe, one of which (Tiamut, now named Celestial Island) being a key part of the storyline for Captain America: Brave New World as the original source of Adamantium.
Things might’ve ended much differently for Black Widow if the Marvel timeline was altered, but not just cinematically — also in real life. By the time the film Black Widow arrived in theaters in 2021, Scarlett Johannson had not simply portrayed the character. To audiences worldwide, she was the character; and Black Widow was crucial for not just the foundation of the MCU, but also its overall makeup.
The 2021 movie introduced two critical characters into the MCU: her sister Yelena Belova and fellow Red Room product, and her father Alexei Shostakov a.k.a. The Red Guardian — both of whom owned the screen in 2025’s Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers). Is that something that would’ve occurred if Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao had penned the storyline, or would it have been more grandiose?
She’d ultimately settle in for Eternals, a film with a scope that excited her in a different way, and one that, though it hasn’t gotten a green light for a sequel, did achieve the task of introducing the Celestials to the cinematic universe, one of which (Tiamut, now named Celestial Island) being a key part of the storyline for Captain America: Brave New World as the original source of Adamantium.
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