Rumor: Jeremy Renner To Play Hawkeye In Marvel’s Thor?
Empire is reporting that The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner might appear at the end of Thor as Hawkeye.
“Hawkeye could be interesting,” he told them. “They’re going to send me some stuff on it, see what it is, but I think they’re pretty awesome, trying to make superhero movies almost plausible and not just some fantasy thing.”
It seems that Hawkeye might appear at the end of Thor, similar to Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance at the end of Iron Man. It seems that appearance could pave the way for Hawkeye to appear in The Avengers as well. Hawkeye (Clint Barton), was an orphan, and ran away from the orphanage as a pre-teen to join the circus as a carnival performer, where he was trained in the use of the bow and arrow by the Swordsman and Trickshot.
When he discovered that his mentors were both criminals he rejected them, leading to a beating by Swordsman which left Barton badly injured and hospitalized. Years later, he saw Iron Man in action, and was inspired and decided to become a costumed hero called Hawkeye. However, there is a misunderstanding on Hawkeye’s first outing and he is believed to be a criminal, accused of theft.
On the run, the naive Hawkeye meets the Black Widow, a spy for the Soviet Union, whom he falls in love with. She tricks him into helping her to steal technology developed by Tony Stark, Iron Man’s alter ego. After several battles with Iron Man – who defeats the pair on every occasion – the Black Widow is injured and Hawkeye flees with her, deciding to go “straight” from then on. Hawkeye later “applies” for membership in the superhero team the Avengers, by breaking into Avengers Mansion and binding and gagging the team’s butler, Edwin Jarvis. Hawkeye is accepted, and together with leader Captain America and mutant siblings Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch become the new team when the original members take a leave of absence.
I like Renner and think he will play a good Hawkeye for Marvel I also really love Marvel’s clever willingness to get other universe characters into the films and make them work. Renner was rumored to be playing Mad Max in the new fourth installment of the Mad Max series but nothing never came from that. He read for the part is all we know.
