Black Widow's connection to Hawkeye on Disney Plus was a surprise to nearly everyone involved


The Black Widow team really did not know they were establishing Hawkeye, as well as the Hawkeye group didn't know they get set up by Black Widow

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From the outdoors, Marvel Studios movies seem like they become part of a snugly calibrated equipment where every item is working in show with every other piece, which is why it feels so strange when something takes place that doesn't seem right-- like Bruce Banner's inexplicably non-Hulk look in the Shang-Chi stinger. Evidently, though, the Marvel Studios device is far more slapped-together than we would certainly think, at the very least if a recent revelation about the Black Widow stinger is anything to pass.

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For those who missed it: Black Widow finishes with Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova mourning the fatality of her (type of) sister Natasha (as seen in Avengers: Endgame), at which point Julia Louis-Dreyfus' still-mysterious character appears as well as, generally, tells her that Clint Barton murdered the Black Widow. (We discussed it and also its effects for the larger MCU at the time.) It was a quite obvious tease for the then-upcoming Hawkeye show, that made great on it last week when Yelena turned up as well as tried to kill Hawkeye.

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Requirement MCU stuff, with one thing setting up an additional point as well as all of the pieces falling into place, right? Well, no. According to The Hollywood Press reporter, getting Yelena into Hawkeye was head writer Jonathan Igla's concept, and also after he "lobbied" for it with Marvel Studios manager Kevin Feige, he was told that Black Widow would end with a tease for Yelena going after Clint on Hawkeye ... but he had not been permitted to tell any person else servicing Hawkeye.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone else at the time, Feige went to Black Widow film writer Eric Pearson and also informed him that the flick should finish with a post-credits scene where Julia Louis-Dreyfus tells Yelena to go after Hawkeye. When Pearson asked why, he says Wonder told him "don't worry about it." He likewise talked with THR later on and also claimed he really felt "very guilty" that a few other author was currently mosting likely to need to go along later on as well as manage a thing that he had established in his motion picture, but we now know that he was the one taking care of a thing that Igla had actually set up for Hawkeye.

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This is all most likely occurring on a quite long timeline, with these jobs all taking a while as well as COVID having knocked Wonder's routine around anyway, but it seems like Wonder thought of a strategy and then retroactively returned to set up that plan instead of really setting points up naturally-- or, as Pearson feared, tossing out spins and afterwards leaving future writers to solve them.

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It does not look like a poor system, and also things undoubtedly constantly often tend to exercise for Marvel, yet it might make you wonder what the hell the workshop was preparing to do with Black Widow if not actively tease whatever Yelena's next tale was mosting likely to be. As well as if future stories are determining what takes place in previous stories, how much of a strategy can there even be? Possibly Marvel Studios isn't a maker at all, however a team of people all trying to make it seem like one?

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It's difficult to state, given that a person being informed "do not worry about it" when they ask why they need to consist of a details scene in their film is a big enact favor it being a device. With any luck the Hawkeye team a minimum of recognize why their show appears to be working so tough to set up the return of that large bad guy.

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