With two Oscar nominations to his name, Jeremy Renner (The Town, American Hustle, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Hurt Locker) is one of the Marvel Universe’s most decorated stars although his character was deprived of some crucial character development time in his only lead role, 2012’s The Avengers. We know Renner will reprise his role next year in Age of Ultron while he’s rumoured to be starring in Captain America 3 and the latter’s directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, have revealed that the archer did have a role in Cap’ 2. Be warned that the next passage does contain major spoilers for The Winter Soldier.
Joe Russo explained “What it was going to be, we were trying to complicate the relationship between Cap and his S.H.I.E.L.D agent friends. If Hawkeye got a call from S.H.I.E.L.D saying Captain America is a fugitive, would he listen to that call or not listen to that call? That sequence actually was heartbreaking for us to cut it. I think it ultimately might have been a conflict with Renner’s schedule. But there was a great sequence where Hawkeye was chasing Cap through Washington D.C. there was an awesome sequence where they confronted each other in a ravine on the outskirts of D.C. and Hawkeye was shooting a series of arrows closing in on Cap, Cap closing in on him. And then Cap took him down and he realized for the first time that Hawkeye was trying to trick S.H.I.E.L.D, where he whispered something into Cap’s ear that Cap had a tracker on his suit and to punch Hawkeye to make it look real, because there was a Quinjet hovering above where they were watching the feedback back at S.H.I.E.L.D.
“So it was a cool sequence. But look, there’s a million iterations of films, and especially when dealing with Marvel movies where characters can come in or come out during the creative process. And you keep working and working like a Rubik’s Cube till you find the right configuration where everything lines up. So even though we lost that sequence, I think we may have streamlined the movie and made it a little bit more propulsive.”
Also from the world of Marvel, the very first trailer for the second season of Agents of SHIELD have emerged. Many were quick to criticise the show but it transformed into something spectacular in its last sequence of episodes. Clark Gregg, Chloe Bennett, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge but the trailer made no such mention of J August Richards, Ron Glass, David Conrad, BJ Britt, Ruth Negga or Patton Oswalt. Lucy Lawless, Reed Diamond, Kyle MacLachlan and Adrianne Palicki also join the cast.
Agents of SHIELD season 2 – September 23rd on ABC/Channel 4
Captain America 3 – May 6th 2016
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On Agents of Shield. Does Joss just take too long to wind a series up to where it needs to be? Or are we all just too impatient for a proper build up?