Why Scarlett Johansson Is ‘Very Thankful’ Black Widow Is Being Made Now Instead Of 10 Years Ago

In 2009-10, Marvel Studios was just tiptoeing into the shallow waters of its cinematic universe. It had introduced Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, and tackled a Hulk movie that didn’t really move the pieces around the board. Scarlett Johansson is right that if Marvel tried to do a Black Widow movie back then, as part of its still-developing Phase One, then it likely would have been more superficial than the political thriller that the MCU is now capable of (like Captain America: Civil War).