Move over, Loki! Hawkeye is back with his own Disney+ TV show — but this time around, he’s not teaming up with the Avengers. He’s got a new sidekick by the name of Kate Bishop, played by Hailee Steinfeld.
Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye catches up with Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) after he helped Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the team take down Thanos in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
The bow-and-arrow wielding hero — who made his movie debut in 2011’s Thor — is one of the only original members of the Avengers that is still alive, which means there’s a lot of pressure on him to defend Earth from whatever villains await. One of them might even be a relative of the dearly departed Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), who lost her life in Endgame.
Disney+ has kept the plot of the new six-part series under wraps, but it’s reportedly “an adventure series” in which Clint “will pass the torch to Kate Bishop,” according to Variety.
Renner teased that Steinfeld’s character will play an important role in the show — while also being a bit of a pain in Clint’s backside.
“[Kate is] a 22-year-old kid and she’s a big Hawkeye fan,” the Hurt Locker actor told Entertainment Weekly in July 2021. “She has a wonderfully annoying and equally charming manner about her, because she’s such a fangirl of Hawkeye.”
He continued, “The relationship grows from that, but the biggest problem for Clint is Kate Bishop and the onslaught of problems that she brings into his life.”
Luckily, art didn’t imitate life for Renner, who told EW that he helped his younger costar acclimate to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by “protecting her and giving her the CliffsNotes on how it goes with this kind of filmmaking: Green screen, superhero life, all that stuff.”
The Mayor of Kingstown alum didn’t want to just act in the project — he also “wanted to protect” Steinfeld “because there’s a lot of physical stuff,” he said. “She’s a wonderful actress, a wonderful human, and I can’t wait to see all the cool stuff that she’s able to do.”
Hawkeye is the fifth Marvel TV series to premiere in 2021, following WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki and the animated What If?
For those fans who can’t get enough Marvel, The Eternals, directed by Chloé Zhao, hits theaters on November 5th, less than a month before Spider-Man returns for his third movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Keep scrolling to find out everything you need to know about Hawkeye:
The Marvel series starts streaming on Disney+ November 24. The show will premiere with two episodes before releasing the remaining four each Wednesday.
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Renner will be joined by a cast of Marvel newbies, including Vera Farmiga, Ava Russo and Steinfeld. Alaqua Cox, Zahn McClarnon, Brian d’Arcy James and Fra Free will round out the cast of the action series.
Florence Pugh will also return as her Black Widow character Yelena Belova, a Russian assassin who has her eye on Hawkeye.
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Those who stayed until the end of the Black Widow credits know that shady agent Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) told Yelena that it’s Clint who killed her sister, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow. Now the Russian spy is out to get Hawkeye — and she very rarely misses.
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Hawkeye takes Manhattan in a sneak peek of the action-packed series, which was released in September. The teaser has him teaming up with Kate, a superhero-in-training and superfan who is very happy to learn about trick arrows.
“There are arrows more dangerous than that one?” she asks excitedly after blowing up a truck with a single shot.
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