• I think I just had a nerdgasm. YES! Hawkeye. Okay, not my absolute fav. but still, yes!

• The biggest rumor is Holloway as Ant_man, which totally doesn't seem fitting to me. Maybe he can pull it off....

• Or, rather, what VBane meant about the font. Whoops. As long as I'm still yammering anyway, I think Renner would be a quality choice. Very good work in Hurt Locker and Dahmer.

• Worked out great for The Phantom. (Also, I see what you mean now about needing some kind of sarcastic font.)

• Wow. This is a great call. And he wouldn't pull as much focus from the team as Fillion. Much as I dig Mal, I think his personality is bigger than the role of Hawkeye will likely be. Plus, he's got his regular Castle gig, right? So would he want to get roped into a (likely) multi-picture contract?

• Also an Iraq War veteran, and while many elements were fictionalized for the movie (i.e. sole vehicle convoys, taking the doc out without including him in the mission briefings, etc.), the overall atmosphere, character interactions, and even many of the actual EOD moments (the IED in the road linked to multiple rounds, the car full of 155mm rounds) definitely brought me back to outside Baghdad.

• Hurt Locker kicked ass, and I knew who Jeremy Renner was before it and that he's a competent actor (although I'd only seen him in smaller roles previously), but I think this will be good casting if it actually happens.

• Meh... Oh wait! Wasn't he the kid from Senior Trip? I'm pretty sure he was. Yeah.., I'm gonna stick with my 'meh'.

• Renner was a convincing bad-guy in the otherwise lame SWAT movie. He was also in the underrated, excellent TV show The Unusuals.

• This might be awesome. Renner is quite the underrated actor. In Dahmer, he actually makes you feel some sympathy for Jeffery Dahmer, then does something totally messed up. Bruce Davidson (Senator Kelly from the X-men flicks) plays his father. That said, given the looks of the Cap and Thor costumes, I'd bet we'll see something along the lines of Ultimate Hawkeye, both in costume and his choice of weapons, which basically emphasizes that he's an expert marksman, not just with a bow, but any ranged weapon. I hope this pans out.

• He was one of the main characters in the one season show "The Unusuals". I really liked the show, but it never found it's audience. A serious cop show, but it was fun too.

• Sawyer has already stated that he would not play Gambit due to the similarity between the two roles. Hawkeye is different enough that I think he'd give it a try.

• Hurt Locker was pretty decent. It certainly has become a favourite target for iconoclasts. Renner is a solid actor and he should be great in this role. He was also in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He didn't have a huge role in that movie but he did well with it anyway.

• All I know about Hurt Locker is that the guys it's about HATE IT. And that's enough reason for me to avoid it.

• I've also read from EOD guys that it wasn't entirely accurate, but a movie that was that was more accurate would be be pretty damn boring, what with all the sitting around and waiting that EOD guys do.

• Agree on all points. Fillon for Hawkeye, Renner for Cap.

• I have no strong opinions on his casting. I think I only saw him in that Angel episode, sure he was good. But it was a really small sample size. I really hope they don't make him Ultimate Hawkeye. I know they want it to be more realistic and an archer is very comic bookey. But wouldn't his role be pretty much the same as Black Widow's? Just without the espionage.

• 1st time saw him in House m.d and mistook him for Callum Keith Rennie. I´m rather happy for him if he get´s the role.

• Was he the one good character from the movie who got burned alive?

• 28 Weeks Later was OK as long as you could ignore that almost every character was carrying the 'idiot ball'. IMHO it was standard Hollywood horror movie tripe, with none of the wit and intelligence of the original. Though I admit the night vision sequence in the metro was pretty nifty. Renner is a darn good actor, but I'm not familiar with the Hawkeye character, so I can't say how good a fit he'd be for that role.

• DE-lighted. He'd be perfect for Hawkeye. I heard Josh Holloway was rumoured for this, but as much as I'm a Lost-head I'm not convinced Josh could pull it off. Maybe if I'd seen him as a different character before, but Renner fits this perfectly, especially so as I'm a fan of Ultimate Hawkeye, and(Even though they'd never get to pull it off), I'm sold on Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton post M-Day. I know it's fanciful, but imagine that - The Avengers, then M-Day. *squee*

• I like this guy. Really.

• Just like Training Day back in it year of hype, Hurt Locker was the most overrated film of the year. On the other hand, I do like Renner, he's always been fun in everything I've seen him in.

• Bazinga.

• First of all, thank you for your service to this nation. Second of all, of course it's unrealistic. It's a fucking movie. They're going to put some weirdness and/or tension in it.

• I wish there was a comic-book guy font I could use to distinguish real nerdtalk from satirical nerdtalk :p Wasn't been all that serious. I had to IMDB him to even figure out where I recognized him from.

• For sure, one of the best scenes in the movie, and that's saying something. Also made me insanely jealous of Anthony Mackie but that's another conversation altogether...

• Hurt Locker was an amazing movie and deserved it's Best Picture award. Renner was amazingly intense and real in it so I totally support this. Also 28 Weeks Later... a sequel that doesn't suck for once.

• I believe you are confusing that with Avatar

• Apropos of nothing, but I think he looks like a morph of Daniel Craig and Ewan McGregor.

• Purple worked fine for Prince on film. And the Joker. I don't see why studios have an aversion to purple on main characters...

• Attitudes like this are why I find it hard to stop disliking Whedon. - It's not his work I hate, so much as the tendency of his fans to gush like Carrie White in the shower.

• oh, ok, so because you're (supposedly) an iraq war veteran, clearly your experience speaks for all veterans across the entire war at any given time. gotcha. look, i'm sure that wwii and vietnam veterans would also say that certain movies aren't realistic because they didn't mirror their particular experience(s). doesn't mean the movie is 'fake and lame.' interpretation. check it out.

• Same here, and the movie was pretty close. Sure they took some liberties with it, but I could almost feel the sand in my lungs again.

• Josh Holloway needs to be Gambit.

• Marvel has confirmed they have started talking to Jeremy to play Hawkeye. which should mean Marvel is really wanting the Avengers to work. though they may wind up having to change Hawk eyes uniform since think the purple would not work well on film. and if they are expanding for the avengers. Marvel should look to see about adding Vision and Scarlet witch in the future.

• Shame Rob. As a Whedonphile you don't recognize Angels vampiric protege turned serial killer Penn aka "The Pope"? Liked him there, so happy if this is true. Whedonverse away!

• I don't think it deserved the attention it got on the back end, but it was a good script and I liked it. I'm a dude from Iowa who likes war movies and well acted performances, not a hollywood insider. it only came to Fleur cinema in DSM for like a week. I really don't give a rip the circle jerk academy says about a movie or doesn't say. How's this: Hurt locker was just a good movie in my humble opinion. And I think Renner can play a marksman from middle america with a troubleed past because he's already done it. Also, yes, it was fake. It was a movie.

• Fake and lame in that I'm an Iraq War veteran, and that movie's depiction of what occurs over there is completely unrealistic.

• The military and technical accuracy of the actual explosive ordnance disposal is pretty unrealistic. But I also read a quote from an actual EOD guy that if you can ignore that the acting and plot is pretty good.

• I was really hoping he would be Cap. And I would still prefer to see him and Chris Evans switch roles. But he's pretty good. I think he'd be a pretty badass Hawkeye.

• fake and lame how? please do tell. or was it just over your head, such that it made you sad?

• I kinda watched The Hurt Locker, what I paid attention too was good. God kept looking at the photo thinking, god he's hot...fuck it...he's hot, that arm! sweet lord..

• The Hurt Locker was overrated. there. i said it.

• It was an old rumor, and not that wikipedia is an amazing source, but it seems that even though Renner said that the rumor was baseless that he is in final talks to play Hawkeye as of yesterday.

• This is actually a pretty old rumor that just recently resurfaced.

• It doesn't matter, their helicopter will explode anyways. Also....wakka wakka

• I think Hurt Locker is a pretty good reason to cast Renner. If you recall the scene where they're wasted and fighting...the man is freaky intense.

• I'm all in favor of this rumor. I loved Hurt Locker. And I think Renner will suit hawkeye perfectly.

• Hurt Locker was a pile of overhyped Hollywood garbage. Fake and lame.

• But who're they gonna get for Trapper John? And Hot Lips? Radar? Really, who could replace the little fella who played Radar? No one, that's who. No one!

• Hurt Locker was just a so-so movie, but Renner was awesome in it. The above pic is from SWAT, where he played a great villain. Him as Hawkeye? Color me stoked.

• I always thought that Ben Browder (of Farscape fame) would make a great Hawkeye...

• I've never posted before but since I kind of love Jeremy Renner as an actor I feel it might be worth mentioning that he was also in an episode of Angel. Played a vampire named Penn who was an old acquaintance of Angel. So not only is he a great actor he has already had some experience working with Joss Whedon. So there is that.

• Hurt locker was great and he was the major reason for that. I can't think of anyone else I'd like to play Hawkeye, so...sure!

• He'll do fine, but Josh "Sawyer" Halloway would have set off a geekstorm of excitement.

• Also the main antagonist in S.W.A.T. ...not the guy who was offering "ONE HUNDRED MEELYON DOLE-AHS!" for anyone breaking him out, but the ex-SWAT agent who went rogue. So as an actor with experience playing a sharpshooter, I don't think you could really get any better.

• This is about as good a choice as any. Renner is a superb actor (see: Hurt Locker, Dahmer, and National Lampoon's Senior Trip). I was hoping Nathan Fillion would get the role, considering he's perfect for it and Whedon is directing the flick. Ah, well. If this is true, they could do a helluvalot worse. That said, Renner would make a better Cap.

• Well, he played a sniper in 28 Weeks Later, so there's that.

• He was in 28 Weeks Later. That's the sequel, not the original. Now does he ring a bell?

• He took his mom to the Oscars this year. When he was asked on the red carpet who his dream date to the Oscars would have been he answered "Maybe a shotgun...AND my momma."

• I only saw this guy in The Hurt Locker, and his acting seemed pretty great. I think I'm more thrown off by him being a bit beefier than I expect Hawkeye (or a real life archer) to be. If they're going for "Ultimate Bullseye-Hawkeye" then I guess that won't be much of an issue.

• I didn't much care for The Hurtlocker. The one strong point of the movie was the acting, which of coarse was the one place The Academy didn't reward.. I'm pretty excited about the casting call, even if I don't care for the character that much.

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