My boy Hawkeye is finally about to get his due. It has been announced that a Hawkeye series is in the works at Disney+ and Jeremy Renner is set to star.
The project is described as an adventure series in which Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, will pass the torch to Kate Bishop, a member of the group known as the Young Avengers, and first female to take the Hawkeye name after Clint Barton. The project is being pushed as a limited series.
Renner has played the Marvel comics character since 2011 with an uncredited cameo in Thor. He went on to play the role in The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, and will next be seen in Avengers: Endgame, which opens April 26. I’d like to point out I think he’s the most underused Avenger so I’m stoked he’s getting his own series.
The series would join Disney+’s growing slate of series focused on Marvel characters and is part of an initiative by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to use limited-run television shows (typically six- to eight-episode story arcs) to feature stories of fan-favorite Marvel characters that don’t have their own film franchises. Also previously announce is a miniseries featuring Tom Hiddleston’s Loki and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch Marvel characters.
