Jeremy Renner Wants To Be An Avenger
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Now that Iron Man 2 is in the finish stages, and Thor will kick off filming in January, the casting rumor mill must now find some new grist in The Avengers. (Not Captain America, oddly enough. We'll just skip right over that one!) Empire sat down with Jeremy Renner, who revealed that he'd been in talks with Marvel Studios and Avengers' writer Zak Penn about tackling the part of a superhero. While he's reportedly been linked with Captain America on some dim corners of the Internet, Renner is thinking he might like to play another Avenger : Clint Barton, better known as Hawkeye. "I don't know if I'd be right for Captain America. I met with the Marvel guys, actually, but we didn't talk about Captain America. But one of the writers, Zak Penn, we've become friends over time and he was thinking maybe Hawkeye could be interesting. He sounds like an interesting character."
Renner stressed "no offer has been made ... I think there's a little ways from that" but he also speculated that Hawkeye might cameo in Thor or in First Avenger: Captain America. But Thor has an awfully big cast at this point, so tossing in an Avenger cameo seems a bit dubious, though there's always room in a post-credit sequence. Iron Man 2 would have been the ideal place (Mr. Clint Barton and the Black Widow go way back) but the ship would appear to have sailed on that one.
Renner certainly has the right look for Clint Barton, and he really did have a superhero cockiness in The Hurt Locker. But The Avengers is so far away, and the lineup still so uncertain that it feels foolish to speculate. After he was so strongly linked with Mad Max 4: Fury Road, I'm beginning to suspect Renner might be "that guy" who becomes linked to a lot of franchise characters. Good for him, but frustrating for those fans who just want it all to be settled with a minimum of false leads.
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11-27-2009 @ 11:38PM
[A] said...
You guys got on this a little late but yeah, I'd love to see Renner -- not just as Hawkeye but as any other guy. And I've only seen him once -- in The Hurt Locker -- but that's a good enough reason.
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11-28-2009 @ 4:16AM
shannon said...
GO HOME AND TAKE
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11-29-2009 @ 3:36AM
stephen said...
I was wanting to ask Elisabeth if she has heard any lately of who Marvel are even asking to play the Captain American role? Ages ago, some female wrote of being at a Los Angeles role call and an unknown ( Ryan ______) was thought to have the acting skill and the physical looks to play Steve Rogers/Cap.
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11-29-2009 @ 3:39AM
Elisabeth said...
Unfortunately, no rumors have come my way! Someone at ComicCon teased me that they knew, but they refused to divulge the name. That's the last whisper I heard, and it wasn't much of one.
There were jokes flying around that some of the Thor rejects had gone into a Captain America pile, but I don't know who they might be.
11-30-2009 @ 4:07PM
Brandon said...
This is a really good fit.
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