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Hawkeye became one of Marvel’s most well-received TV shows when it launched during the 2021 holiday period on Disney+, gaining both critical acclaim and solid reactions from MCU fans as it caught up with its titular superhero following the events of Avengers: Endgame. But it seems like the series had a rather bumpy road to the small screen.
In a conversation with The Watch podcast, Hawkeye producer Andrew Guest recently revealed that they had to work “around the clock” to save the show, which saw Jeremy Renner reprising his role as master archer Clint Barton alongside new protégée Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), noting that it was completely overhauled right before filming was due to start.
Both Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo and the Executive of Production & Development at Marvel Studios, Trinh Tran, reportedly called Guest right ahead of the Hawkeye shoot, with Tran saying, “I’m going to send you six one-hour episodes. I want to meet tomorrow to talk about it. We start shooting in New York in a week and a half, and we want to rewrite the whole thing.”
Wonder Man showrunner Guest said that Hawkeye had already been written and rewritten “a couple of times,” by that point, adding, “I was literally the last call they could make to anybody.”
Marvel has been known to use a formula that includes fixing projects while they’re filming and in reshoots, which Guest said was “very much the case” with Hawkeye. “You know, Hailee Steinfeld’s character was written too young. The dynamic between her and Jeremy wasn’t there. There were a lot of extra twists and turns that were sort of gumming up the works. We worked around the clock, and I was very much involved with Trinh and Brad Winderbaum, who was not running TV at the time, but was very hands-on on this project. I needed their help as much as they needed mine. And we got through that process.”
After Hawkeye’s positive Disney+ debut, there were rumors that Marvel would move forward with a second season of the show, though development seemed to stall on the project.
“We did explore creatively what season 2 of Hawkeye might be if we were able to do it,” Guest previously told The Direct. “Unfortunately, the timing didn’t work out in terms of Marvel and all the various pieces that need to come together, but I loved working on Hawkeye. I think [Jeremy] Renner and Hailee Steinfeld are so terrific together, and I would love to see more of those two.”
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