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