So “The Hurt Locker” star Jeremy Renner could star as Hawkeye in the Marvel Studios’ “Avengers” movie, yes? It is possible and vaguely on the table, but in an interview with SuperheroHype, Renner cautioned, said it was early days and that ultimately whoever Marvel chose as the director would be choosing what heroes appear.
“I haven’t heard anything since I talked to [Marvel] three weeks ago.The last I knew is that they still have to find their director for ‘The Avengers,’ that’s where he’s really going to show up. They were just talking, ‘Like maybe we should consider maybe hiring Hawkeye now’ but there’s no director on ‘Avengers’ so they don’t really want to force-feed the director, ‘Here’s the whole cast.’ It’s a big role so they didn’t want to do that to the director, so I think they might wait. I know they’re interested, I’m interested, so we’ll see if it works out.”
Though it is interesting to hear Renner call it a “big role,” but perhaps he just means an important character. As for what the character will look like, Renner seems to be stoked with the realistic, non-comic-book-y manner that Marvel is promising (i.e., he hopefully won’t look like the hilarious costumes of “Daredevil,” even though they tried to dial those down too).
“He’s just a man with a high skill set, so I can relate to (that). The Marvel guys are great for how they made Iron Man to be, ‘Oh, that’s actually plausible’ so I bought it and I love that. They’re really, really smart guys and I’d love to work for ’em, and we’ll see if it works out.” Yeah, [the character’s] going to be modernized, it’s not going to be the guy with the big purple (mask), it’s not going to be a guy in tights. It’s going to be a guy in sunglasses and a vest. He’s going to be more modernized and I’m gonna say, ‘A cooler-looking version’ and not the big weird costume he had on. I don’t think they’re going that route.”
Sounds great. Now they just need to hire a director and Jon Favreau (director of flagship Marvel Comic films, “Iron Man” and “Iron Man 2”) has already said he won’t be the man for the job which has disappointed some fans. Here’s our suggestions for five filmmakers that could direct “Avengers” (and five possibilities for people that likely will).