Jeremy Renner, star of The Hurt Locker, was recently approached for talks to play Hawkeye in The Avengers.
The story broke in Empire magazine, but nothing else had been discussed since. Superherohype.com caught up with Renner after a night at the Independent Film Gotham Awards. Renner states:
"I haven’t heard anything since I talked to
them three weeks ago," he admitted. "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.
"They sold me on the idea, too, because I
love the idea that Hawkeye’s really not a superhero," Jeremy told us.
"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.
"…it’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."
So, while all of this is still early, it is cause for interest. Have any of you seen The Hurt Locker? Is he a good fit for the Avengers’ archer? Sound off below!
