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Marvel’s Black Widow gets an official synopsis, Alexandre Desplat to compose score

January 15, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Following on from yesterday’s Special Look trailer, Marvel Studios has now unveiled an official synopsis for Black Widow, the long-awaited solo movie for Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff; check it out here…

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.

Meanwhile, it has also been somewhat casually revealed in the credits of the latest trailer that Marvel has enlisted some Oscar-winning talent to score Black Widow in composer Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water), who this week received his eleventh Academy Award nomination for Little Women.

Black Widow is being directed by Cate Shortland (Lore) and sees Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as Natasha Romanoff alongside Florence Pugh (Fighting With My Family) as Yelena Belova, O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) as Mason, David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Rachel Weisz (The Favourite) as Melina Vostokoff/Iron Maiden, and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) and Olivier Richters (The King’s Man) in as-yet-unrevealed roles. It is set for release on May 1st 2020.

Originally published January 15, 2020. Updated January 18, 2020.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Black Widow, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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