It is said that the train started
by Marvel Studios in 2008, a train known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
franchise, can no longer afford to stop for even the shortest breaks. True,
they tried to do that in the first year of pandemic last year; but it was
financially disastrous to keep the start of their MCU Phase 4 on hold for as
long as it has been. This is doubly so now that the franchise not only has
films but streaming series on Disney+. Soon to follow the “What If…?” animated
anthology is a series focusing on Avengers member Hawkeye, the first trailer
for which has landed.
Entertainment Weekly tells us that Marvel Studios dropped a trailer
late this Monday, September 13, for “Hawkeye,” the next upcoming MCU Disney+
limited series. The show stars Jeremy Renner reprising as master bow marksman Clint
Barton, former SHIELD Agent and Avenger, and his newest misadventures following
the events of “Endgame.” The series also delves deep into the character’s
original Marvel Comics incarnation: particularly the fact that he got a young
and female legacy character that uses his codename, and which they later share
between them.
The trailer sees Barton (Renner)
reminiscing of his “emo” days during the five-year period when he lost his
family to the Thanos “Blip.” During that time he took the new identity of the
sword-and-bow-wielding Ronin, waging a violent war against the remnants of organized
crime worldwide. He has since dropped the act after “Endgame” restored his wife
and children, but Clint made vicious enemies during his Ronin phase, and they
are out to collect just when he was out of town and trying to get home to the
folks during the Holidays. This is complicated when he sees another figure
aping the Ronin motif, forcing him to pursue the copycat.
Said Ronin poseur turns out to be
a girl, one Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). She’s a Hawkeye fan despite
describing herself as a heck of an archer herself. But a hasty meeting leads to
a frantic team-up as now Barton and Bishop must fend off some very determined
assassins including Black Widow Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), who blames Clint
for Natasha Romanov’s death. As the two Hawkeyes try to survive until Barton
makes it to his family’s Christmas dinner, intense action scenes are intercut
with surprise elements like a “Hamilton”-like “Rogers: The Musical” on Broadway.
What that is about, we shall have
to wait for the series. “Hawkeye” also stars Vera Farmiga, Tony Dalton, Alaqua
Cox, and Brian D’Arcy James. It starts streaming on Disney+ November 24, succeeding
“What If…?”
Image courtesy of Yahoo News
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