Black Widow’s first trailer shows Natasha returning to where it all began
Black Widow’s first trailer is finally here, and it shows Natasha returning to where her life as an assassin started.
Avengers: Endgame might have been Black Widow’s last appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe chronologically, but it’s not the last time fans will see her character grace the big screen. The 2020 film Black Widow will take fans back to a time before The Snap, enabling them to explore Natasha Romanoff’s brutal past in the process.
Fans know by now that, prior to her life as an Avenger, Natasha was brought up to be an assassin. And in the first trailer for her upcoming movie, we see her returning to where her journey began — and reconnecting with some, er, interesting, comrades along the way.
Watch the new trailer for Black Widow here:
The teaser opens with a familiar voiceover of Natasha saying, “I used to have nothing, and then I got this job. This family.” Interspersed throughout this dialogue are flashbacks, both of Natasha’s life training to become an assassin and of her time with the Avengers team. “But nothing lasts forever,” she ends with before the trailer dives into new footage.
From the looks of it, something urgent from Natasha’s past beckons her back to Russia, to the very place the began her life as assassin. Although it’s not a time of her life she necessarily wants to revisit, Natasha insists that she’s “done running from [her] past” before she goes to face it head on.
The trailer also introduces some exciting new characters, including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), and Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz). Those looking to get a look at David Harbour’s Red Guardian will be thrilled that they finally get to see him — although, he seems positively tame in comparison to Yelena, who has an all-out sparring match with Natasha when they see each other again. And the clips of the three of them teaming up highlight the fact that, maybe, Natasha did actually have a family before the Avengers.
In addition to introducing its new cast members, the Black Widow teaser also gives viewers a glimpse of Taskmaster, the film’s villain — though it’s not enough to truly get a read on the MCU’s interpretation of the character. There are also a ton of action clips toward the end, suggesting that Marvel fans are going to be in for a wild ride when the movie finally does come out.
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