//Marvel pushes Black Widow to 2021, delaying the MCU’s future even further

Marvel pushes Black Widow to 2021, delaying the MCU’s future even further

Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow, which has been delayed twice now. | Marvel Studios/Disney

Shang-Chi and Eternals, the beginnings of Marvel’s Phase 4 set of movies, will be delayed as well.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been stopped in its tracks until 2021. On Wednesday, Variety reported that Disney has again delayed the release of Black Widow, the next scheduled Marvel film, from November 6, 2020, to May 7, 2021.

That’s the second delay for the film, which stars Scarlett Johansson as her Avengers character. It was originally scheduled for a May 1, 2020, release, before the Covid-19 pandemic led Disney to bump it to the fall. Now the film will premiere more than a year after its original date.

And with Black Widow’s rescheduling comes a domino effect for the other Marvel films in the queue: Shang-Chi and the Legend