“Black Widow,” starring Scarlett Johansson as the titular heroine, wrapped shooting earlier this year, with Ned Benson (“The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby“) rewriting the screenplay. The film is directed by Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (“Berlin Syndrome,” “Somersault“) and is said to be a prequel about the titular character’s days as a Russian spy before joining “The Avengers.”
Marvel has already announced what movies will encompass the upcoming fourth phase of the MCU. If you remember, Phase 3 ended with the Avengers double-header "Infinity War," and this past April’s “Endgame.”
Marvel head Kevin Feige named the titles at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer. It does look like a stacked lineup of films will be headed our way in 2020, 2021 and 2022. A huge surprise, maybe the biggest one Marvel had to offer at Comic-Con, was the fact that the fourth phase of the MCU will be relying heavily on Disney+ — this is all part of the plan for the mouse house to take over Netflix as the streaming champion. To follow every part of the action for this fourth MCU phases then fans will have to subscribe to Disney+ to watch “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Wanda Vision,” “Loki,” “What If” and “Hawkeye.”
The theatrical events will be:
“The Eternals” (Fall 2020)
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (2021)
"Black Widow" (May 2020)
“Thor: Love and Thunder” (November 2021)
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (February 2021)
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" (May 2021)
“Blade” (TBD)
"Black Panther 2" (TBD)
"Captain Marvel 2" (TBD)
"Fantastic Four" (TBD)
Given the low budget, “Ebenezer” will probably amount to a win for Depp. For West, I hope this was a one-time paycheck before he goes back to R-rated filmmaking.