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Technically, WandaVision (2021), Falcon & The Winter Soldier (2021) and Loki season 1 kicked off Phase Four, with Black Widow (2021) being delayed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first film in Phase 4, however, the events of the film take place immediately after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), which is the first film in Phase 3.
This is Scarlett Johansson's ninth time playing Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, if you include the post-credit scene of Captain Marvel (2019). Johansson's contract for this solo outing, although an extension, is independent from her original contract. Her salary for her supposedly final outing, as stipulated in her deal, is $25 million (the biggest salary of her career), with an additional $6 million bonus if the film's worldwide gross is above $900 million. However, the latter stipulation became the subject of a lawsuit between Johansson and Disney, when Disney reportedly breached contract by releasing the movie simultaneously on their streaming service Disney+, which seriously limited its box office success.
Scarlett Johansson personally approached Cate Shortland about directing, having been a big fan of her film Lore (2012). Chloé Zhao was the first choice, but she chose to direct Eternals instead.
The main contenders for the role of Yelena Belova were Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Alice Englert, Dar Zuzovsky, and Florence Pugh, with Watson being the front-runner. Ultimately, Pugh was cast. According to the producers, her performance as Saraya-Jade Bevis in Fighting with My Family (2019) gave an added advantage behind her casting.
David Harbour had already grown a beard for the fourth season of Stranger Things (2016) so he decided to gain weight for the role, reaching 280 pounds. Over the course of shooting, he lost 60 pounds for the flashback sequences. David Harbour appeared in Quantum of Solace (2008) along with Olga Kurylenko and Rachel Weisz' husband, Daniel Craig.
The inclusion of footage from Moonraker (1979) is to hint at the floating hideout ‘Red Room’ of the main villain at the end of the film. The 'Red Room' returns, after having been seen first in The Iron Ceiling (2015) where Peggy Carter and the Howling Commandos found one of its academies, and it was later mentioned by Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as the program that mercilessly trained and sterilized her. James Bond is also thrown from an airplane without a parachute in Moonraker, but survives by stealing one from a villain in mid-air.
The actress that played young Yelena was Violet McGraw. Her older sister, Madeleine McGraw, has also been in the MCU as young Hope Van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). Young Nathasha is played by Ever Anderson, daughter of Milla Jovovich and Paul W. S. Anderson.
Yelena mistakenly calls Alexei "Crimson Dynamo'' rather than Red Guardian. In the comics, Crimson Dynamo is a Russian supervillain in powerful armor who usually fights Iron Man, and has been a teammate of Red Guardian. His real name was Anton Vanko, and he is the father of Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) from Iron Man 2 (2010), whose electricity-based weapons and armor were based on the Crimson Dynamo from the comics.
In Melina's armory are masks that are colored metallic blue. In the comics, Melina (Iron Maiden) had on a metal blue mask as part of her costume.
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