The Marvel movie Black Widow should've hit theaters back in May, but like all major movies due for release over the past few months, it has been delayed. The film is now set to arrive in November, but ahead of that, director Claire Shortland has been talking about where the character goes from here.

Black Widow is a prequel, and as anyone who's seen Avengers: Endgame knows, star Scarlett Johansson is unlikely to return for many more Marvel films. Luckily, Black Widow is just a codename for a group of highly trained Russian agents, and there's another key character in the upcoming film played by Midsommar's Florence Pugh. As Shortland told Empire, Pugh's character of Yelena Belova is a key part of the movie.

"[Marvel boss Kevin Feige] realized that the audience would expect an origin story so, of course, we went in the opposite direction," she said. "And we didn't know how great Florence Pugh would be. We knew she would be great, but we didn't know how great. Scarlett is so gracious, like, ‘Oh, I'm handing her the baton.' So it's going to propel another female storyline."