Avengers: Endgame, but the character is now getting a solo movie.
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with solo movies before leading up to Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, it looks like Black Widow could go back even further.
In a Red Carpet Show at the Oscars, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Gooch briefly spoke about his work on Black Widow, explaining, "we're going back in time to when they were much younger. We have actors playing even younger than they are, the same characters".
Since the film is truly going back in time, the film opens the door to feature more MCU characters. The trailers show Thaddeus Ross returning once again, but some more prominent names could come back as well. It's been made known in the MCU that Black Widow and Hawkeye have a history. A Robert Downey Jr. might return as Iron Man, but that rumor has yet to be confirmed.
With Black Widow being the character's first solo movie, it makes sense that it will talk about her origin story. After all, it kind of has to explain how she met Red Guardian and the other characters on her team. If the film does feature an adolescent Natasha, fans will more than likely want a child actress to play the role over the use of CGI. Marvel's effect team de-aged Robert Downey Jr. in Captain America: Civil War, which some would argue turned out strange. With the technological advancements since 2016, Marvel could do something similar in Black Widow, but it sounds like someone else will be playing the character in her flashback sequences.
Source: Variety
