Jeremy Renner is Not Hawkeye
Posted by Rodneyon 31. 12. 2009in News Chat
There was rumour surrounding Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner that he was approached to play Hawkeye in the Avengers after a cameo in Thor.
But Renner himself was faced with the rumour and fessed up. It did happen, and nothing came of it.
“That was just one of those things that got blown way out of proportion. It was an idea,” he explained. “I happen to know Zak Penn, who’s writing ‘The Avengers.’ So they thought Hawkeye is an interesting role, and asked me if I knew anything about him. I said no, so they gave me their sort of spiel on what he was, and I thought that it was kind of interesting.”Renner added: “The only reason it came out this early, because ‘Avengers’ is two years away, is that they’re thinking OK, we may throw him in Thor, we may not, as a cameo. You know what I mean? So there’s truth that we talked about it, but there’s no truth to me doing it.”
It makes sense that they would try to lock down a character like this. Having Hawkeye cameo in some of the films leading up to The Avengers would be cool even if they just had him on set for one day.
If they did this sooner it could have been in Iron Man 2 he could cross paths with Widow. The two share a romantic storyline in their early history together with the Avengers and it was Widow who brings Hawkeye to the fold.
But it seems that it wont be Renner. With all the buzz around Hurt Locker, I think it would be a wise choice but it just doesn’t look like its happening that way.
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Jeremy Renner’s great in Hurt Locker. I thought he was great in SWAT too (with Colin Farell and Sam Jackson). Hope he gets considered for Hawkeye.
Aww, shucks.
But hey Jeremy….think about that other Avenger. Y’know, the one with Stars n’ Stripes? Folks call him Cap?
Just a thought.
Why is Zak Penn allowed to write “The Avengers” after his horrific handling of X-men 3?
That you personally didnt like X3, doesnt mean that he did such a poor job that they would have run him out of Hollywood.
That would be nonsense.
X-3 wasn’t that horrible a story , That it had a HACK director that made it a little hokey is debatable..other than that it had what the 2 previous “holy grails” lacked…ACTION and battles, and finally seeing a full-blown Iceman…(3 glorious seconds)..
I personally dont read too much in cameo rumors till I see pics.
I’ll agree that the first one lacked action. But the second one? Are you kidding!!? Nightcrawler kickin White House ass, Striker’s troops invading the institute, Magneto prison escape, Pyro blowin up the cops, fighter jets thru the storm sequence, and the whole finale at Striker’s base including the classic fight between Deathstrike and Wolverine. Anyone saying X2 lacked action needs to check themselves.
The third film was just poorly written(and having a hack director didn’t help either). I mean, the Dark Phoenix story is nothing more than a subplot, and mostly focused on the “cure” story, but both of those were poorly done.
I’m not one who likes all that BLIND hate towards FOX, but it was their fault for rushing the film.
However, when you compare X3 to a film like XO:W, then you tend to appreciate it more, at least I did.
Damn, the Hurt Locker is taking forever to come out on blu ray, I know it’s next week…but I want it so bad. Renner was awesome in the Assassination of the Jesse James, as well.
Death Strike and Wolverine fight scene was short and looked like the Mystic fight from the 1st Deathstrike cracking her knuckles and fighting with her nails didn’t do it for me, Night Crawler scene was cool, the raid on the school was a cock tease and pissed me off that colossus got bumped, and Magnetos escape was cool, but if you put all of them together it’s probally 20 minutes of the entire 2+ hour film.. All I remember from that was 1}we didn’t see Iceman in full glory like we all wanted to. 2} that Cyclops was a bitch. 3]The shit seemed too long for it’s own good…
That said, still one of the better films of the Genre.. and the first truly serious (in tone)one.