The Hawkeye Versus Captain America Deleted Fight

<p><em><strong>Captain America&colon; The Winter Soldier<&sol;strong><&sol;em> was easily one of the most powerful superhero movies to be released this year with an intense story of politics&comma; spies and giant warships&period; But would you believe that Hawkeye could&&num;8217&semi;ve been thrown into the mix as well&quest; The writing&sol;directing duo <strong>Anthony<&sol;strong> and <strong>Joe Russo<&sol;strong> stated that one of the intended fight sequences of <em><strong>The Winter Soldier<&sol;strong><&sol;em> involved Hawkeye fighting Captain America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Why wasn&&num;8217&semi;t it included in the film&quest; Apparently actor <strong>Jeremy Renner<&sol;strong> was too busy at the time to pick up the bow and arrow&period; As a result&comma; the Russo brothers had to write their way around this unfortunate conflict of schedules&period; At least the film still turned out stellar without the addition&comma; but it makes you wonder how much more epic the film could&&num;8217&semi;ve been if an Avenger popped in for a little one-on-one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Read the full details in the Russo&&num;8217&semi;s interview with Screen Rant below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>What it was going to be&comma; we were trying to complicate the relationship between Cap and his S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D agent friends&period; If Hawkeye got a call from S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D saying Captain America is a fugitive&comma; would he listen to that call or not listen to that call&quest; That sequence actually was heartbreaking for us to cut&period; I think it ultimately might have been a conflict with Renner’s schedule&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But there was a great sequence where Hawkeye was chasing Cap through Washington D&period;C&period;&period; There was an awesome sequence where they confronted each other in a ravine on the outskirts of D&period;C&period; and Hawkeye was shooting a series of arrows closing in on Cap&comma; Cap closing in on him&period; And then Cap took him down and he realized for the first time that Hawkeye was trying to trick S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D&comma; where he whispered something into Cap’s ear that Cap had a tracker on his suit and to punch Hawkeye to make it look real&comma; because there was a Quinjet hovering above where they were watching the feedback back at S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D&period; So it was a cool sequence&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m very curious if any of this is going to be carried over into <em><strong>Captain America 3<&sol;strong><&sol;em> which is being hinted at for an appearance by Hawkeye&period; At any rate&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll at least be able to catch him slinging bows once again in <em><strong>Avengers&colon; Age of Ultron<&sol;strong><&sol;em> hitting theaters on <strong>May 1&comma; 2015<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;screenrant&period;com&sol;hawkeye-captain-america-2-role-explained&sol;">Screen Rant<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;