Merrick here...
Looks like Jeremy Renner (THE HURT LOCKER, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES, 28 WEEKS LATER) will play Hawkeye/Clint Barton in the slowly gathering steam AVENGERS movie. This confirms months old (but wobbly) rumors that Jeremy might be taking that role, probably for that particular film.
Renner will play the bow-and-arrow-carrying hero Hawkeye, who, while not one of the initial members of the team when it was created in the 1960s, became an integral member soon after when the misguided villain switched sides.
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Renner will join Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Don Cheadle as War Machine.
...says THR HERE.
Once swept up in the French and Indian War in Colonial America (1754-1763), Hawkeye went on to serve as a doctor with Mobile Army Surgical Hospital #4077 in the Korean Conflict (1950-1953) before debuting as a Marvel comic book character in 1964.
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