Jeremy Renner was lastly given his standalone MCU story within the 2021 Disney+ sequence, Hawkeye. However, for years, Hawkeye was the punching bag of the MCU. Following his debut in Thor in 2011, Clint Barton was reserved as a supporting character whereas the opposite members of The Avengers took heart stage. Fortunately, Renner obtained his personal fill of motion, as he starred within the criminally underrated 2013 darkish fantasy motion movie, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. For individuals who have not seen the forgotten motion flick, it’ll quickly fly onto a brand new streaming service.
Paramount+ is ready to stream Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters on September 1. Directed by Tommy Wirkola (Violent Evening), the film additionally stars Gemma Arterton, who performs Gretel, alongside Jeremy Renner’s Hansel, together with Famke Janssen, Pihla Vitala, and Peter Stormare. If the title did not give it away, the movie sees Renner and Arterton painting grownup variations of Hansel and Gretel, who’ve since taken up witch searching after defeating the witch that deliberate to eat them as youngsters. The official synopsis reads:
“Fifteen years after Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) defeated the depraved witch who deliberate to have them for her dinner, the siblings have come of age as expert bounty hunters. Hell-bent on retribution, they’ve devoted their lives to searching down and destroying each witch nonetheless lurking at the hours of darkness forests of their homeland. Because the infamous blood moon approaches, the siblings face an incredible evil — one that might maintain the key to their terrifying previous.”
Hawkeye may need been the MCU’s punching bag for years, however Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was a punching bag for critics when it was launched in 2013. The movie holds a horrifying 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics slated the movie’s makes an attempt at parodying the Grimm fairy tales and referred to as out its middling motion scenes. Nevertheless, audiences took to the movie barely higher, because it holds a 53% viewers ranking, with many praising it as an thrilling motion movie that, admittedly, hides beneath a mediocre fantasy film.
Will Jeremy Renner Return as Hawkeye within the MCU?
Hawkeye was a breath of recent air for the MCU. It may need had some divisive moments, however the sequence remembered crucial half in regards to the character: regardless of combating aliens and gods, he is only a man who can use a bow and arrow properly. With Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars on the horizon, MCU followers are questioning if their favourite Robin Hood knock-off will return to our screens within the close to future.
On the time of publication, Jeremy Renner’s MCU future hasn’t been formally confirmed by Marvel Studios. His identify was absent from the overly lengthy Avengers: Doomsday forged announcement video. Nevertheless, Renner himself is keen to re-string his bow for an additional MCU outing. “I am all the time comfortable to be in that world, man,” Renner stated whereas discussing his restoration from his near-fatal snowplow accident in 2023. “I really like all these guys, I really like the character.”