Black Widow Featurette Highlights the Reunion Between Natasha & Yelena

July 6, 2021

With less than three days left to go before the long-awaited debut of Black Widow, Marvel Studios has released a brand new featurette for the Scarlett Johansson-led MCU film, featuring some new footage of Natasha’s childhood with her first family before the Avengers. The Black Widow featurette, which you can check out below, features interviews by Johansson and Florence Pugh as they talk about how this family shaped the person Natasha became. It also highlights the dynamic chemistry between Natasha and Yelena. The highly-anticipated movie will finally make its debut this Friday, July 9 in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access.

In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Check out the featurette below:

Set between the events of Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, the upcoming film will serve as the first feature in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4. Joining Johansson are David Harbour as Alexei/Red Guardian, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, and Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff. Joining them are William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross, Ray Winstone as Dreykov, and O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason.

Black Widow is directed by Cate Shortland (Lore) from a screenplay written by WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer, who is continuing her partnership with the studio after recently signing an overall deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television.