Clint Barton may be retiring, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe wonât be without a Hawkeye. In Hawkeye, the Marvel spinoff headed to Disney+, Jeremy Renner will return as the MCUâs resident archer to pass off his bow and arrows â and the Hawkeye code name â to a new generation.
On November 24, Jeremy Renner will officially begin the process of passing the bow to Hailee Steinfeldâs Kate Bishop when the first two episodes of the new series hit Disney+. Hereâs everything that we know about Hawkeye so far.
Little MCU tie-in
Speaking with Games Radar, director Rhys Thomas described Hawkeye as âdefinitely a stand-alone thing.â âBut yes, we know their past, and obviously what happened in Endgame,â Thomas said. âWe know in these first two episodes that Clintâs dealing with the fallout of that.â
He went on to add, âItâs definitely a stand-alone thing in that we have this Christmas setting, and this very fixed timeframe story. But it being the MCU, of course, it all connects in some way as well. And weâve got new characters, and this was teed up at the end of Black Widow as well. And so everything is always a nice entry point. But I think for the most part, the story is its own little world.â
TV spots and clips
In the first official TV spots, Vera Farmiga is confirmed as Kate Bishopâs mom, Eleanor Bishop, and Kate thinks Hawkeye is the least popular Avenger due to âbranding issues.â
Official release date
Hawkeyeâs official Twitter account released a new promo and revealed the release date for the first two episodes at the same time. The new series debuts November 24 on Disney+.
Kick off the holidays with the first two episodes of Marvel Studios' #Hawkeye, and start streaming on November 24 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/SpLua8gh0W
— Hawkeye (@hawkeyeofficial) October 14, 2021
First trailer
The first trailer for the upcoming Disney+ series has arrived! Weâve finally got our first footage of Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, the Hawkeye-obsessed young woman who will inherit Clint Bartonâs bow in what looks almost like Marvelâs attempt at a Christmas series. Itâs the most action-packed, Christmas-themed trailer youâll see today.
Photos and video from the set
Any Marvel movie filming in New York City is bound to get a lot of attention, but Hawkeye seems to have fully immersed itself in the city, with an enormous amount of amateur photo and video hitting the web. Check out some of the footage and photos below, including the first look at Vera Farmiga and Tony Dalton in costume.
— Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel) December 12, 2020
đ„ IG | richardhenrynyc: âRight outside my building last night. #marvel #hawkeyeâ pic.twitter.com/hBqgl73jm7
— Hailee Steinfeld News (@HSteinfeldNews) December 12, 2020
đ„ | Hailee Steinfeld filming âHawkeyeâ on December 11, 2020, in New York. (via deadboy_66 on TikTok) https://t.co/FTMlLqRYG4
— Hailee Steinfeld News (@HSteinfeldNews) December 12, 2020
Here are the first photos of Vera Farmiga and Tony Dalton in costume on the set of the upcoming Marvel series #Hawkeye! https://t.co/KviEjZfqfB
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) December 11, 2020
Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld film #Hawkeye at Rockefeller Center and make a toy shop stop â see the latest pictures from the set https://t.co/2x21cbDyrP
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) December 10, 2020
Production begins
Production notices around Brooklyn reveal that Hawkeye begins shooting in the first week of December. (Note: Anchor Point is a pseudonym for the show.)
Disney+ Hawkeye show gonna be doing some filming in downtown Brooklyn next week. pic.twitter.com/J2bWdr9TQ4
— Chris Welch (@chriswelch) November 26, 2020
Shortly after this announcement, our first set footage began to roll out. First, of Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld (playing Hawkeyeâs successor, Kate Bishop) running into the subway. Then, later, we got our first glimpses of Steinfeld in full new-Hawkeye costume.
đš Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfield e Lucky no set de "Hawkeye" pic.twitter.com/dFRQxjcUzr
— Marvel News (@BRMarvelNews) December 2, 2020
Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner seen on the set of #Hawkeye on the Lower East Side, New York#Marvel #DisneyPlus
She's in the Kate Bishop outfit đč
4 MQ Photos. pic.twitter.com/PWFXUJGGAW
— XRBishop (@CreamOrScream) December 8, 2020
Concept art
Hawkeye is still a long way off, but artist Andy Park helped bring a little life to the project by sharing concept art of Kate Bishop as sheâll appear in the Disney+ series.
I hear some people are having MCU withdrawals. I feel ya. Waiting is tough I know! Hereâs a little something- a concept design illustration I did for the upcoming Hawkeye @disneyplus show. This was seen on the âExpanding the Universeâ featurette on Disney+ #hawkeye #katebishop pic.twitter.com/wDPGwJNNBQ
— Andy Park (@andyparkart) August 3, 2020
The star
Marvel is bringing in some impressive star power for Hawkeye, with Oscar-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld offered the lead role in the series (according to Variety). Steinfeld is expected to portray Kate Bishop, the teenage girl who adopted the archerâs code name in the popular Marvel Comics series Hawkeye and went on to become a member of the Young Avengers superhero team.
No stranger to superhero and genre fare, Steinfeld recently played the lead role in the positively reviewed Transformers spinoff, Bumblebee, and voiced one of the main characters in the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated feature. Previously, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in 2010âs True Grit.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Steinfeld described Bishop as âa badass.â âAs Iâm in the process of developing her, Iâm working with some incredible filmmakers that are helping me bring her to life,â Steinfeld commented. âI canât wait for people just to see how we are interpreting this character through the comics. In her own sort of ways, sheâs such a badass. Thereâs no denying that. Sheâs so smart and witty and quick, and her physical ability to do so many things is through the roof. Itâs really tested me, and itâs kept me going through quarantine, I will say, itâs given me a reason to stay with it.â
Release date and logo
At Comic-Con International 2019, Marvel unveiled its Phase 4 plans, including when we can expect to see Hawkeye grace the silver screen. According to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Hawkeye will debut in fall 2021, around the same time as Thor: Love and Thunder.
During the presentation, Marvel also shared Hawkeyeâs logo, which should look familiar to dedicated comic readers.
What a fun line up @marvel so happy to be on this ride #cominginhot #2021 pic.twitter.com/pDC8tcrL0H
— Jeremy Renner (@JeremyRenner) July 21, 2019
Yes, thatâs the same logo that was used on Matt Fraction and David Ajaâs award-winning Hawkeye series, on which the show will be based.
The cast
Jeremy Renner has played Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, when the character made an uncredited cameo in Thor. Heâs appeared in five Marvel movies, including three of four Avengers flicks (the character was on house arrest during Avengers: Infinity War) and Captain America: Civil War (an appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was cut for scheduling reasons). Itâs only fitting heâd get his own series.
Renner wonât be swinging into action alone, however. At Marvelâs big Comic-Con presentation, Feige confirmed that Hawkeyeâs protĂ©gĂ© would be none other than Kate Bishop, just like in the comics. Bishop debuted in Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheungâs Young Avengers #1 in 2005 and assumed the Hawkeye name in issue #12 (Clint was dead around this time). Since then, Kate has played a supporting role in the Young Avengers books, big crossover events, and Clintâs own comics. She co-headlined Fraction and Ajaâs Hawkeye and got her own comic in 2017.
Rumors started circulating about actress Hailee Steinfeld being cast as Bishop as early as October but nothing was confirmed until recently. Despite set footage of Steinfeld in Bishopâs trademark purple, she didnât confirm the casting until Disneyâs 2020 Investor Day on December 10, 2020.
Marvel also announced that additional cast members include Vera Farmiga, Fra Free, and newcomer Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, aka Echo.
The plot
Other than the general premise â Clint Barton trains Kate Bishop to take over as Hawkeye â details about Hawkeye are pretty sparse. Cut Marvel some slack: The show is over a year away. Matt Fraction and David Ajaâs run on Hawkeye, however, lasted from 2012 to 2015. Itâs considered one of the best Marvel comics of the modern era, and itâs going to be the basis for the Hawkeye television show, so we do have a rough idea of whatâs in store.
Fraction and Ajaâs Hawkeye was a story about what the famous superhero got up to between world-ending threats. As the recap pages explained, âThis is what he does when heâs not being an Avenger. Thatâs all you need to know.â The seriesâ ongoing plot was a modest tale about Clintâs attempts to save an apartment building and its tenants from the Russian mob. Character development and humor, not the action, drove the story.
The seriesâ heart was the relationship between Clint and Kate (and their dog, Lucky, aka âPizza Dogâ), with the grounded young heroine serving as an excellent foil to the in-over-his-head Avenger. If Marvel is going to get Hawkeye right, it needs to recapture that chemistry. More than almost any other MCU project, casting is going to make or break this one.
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