New set photos from the set of Hawkeye establish that the upcoming Disney+ series is set in 2025, two years after the events of Avengers: Endgame. In the pics (courtesy of Twitter), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye I) and Hailee Steinfeld (Kate Bishop/Hawkeye II) are seen filming in New York City’s Chinatown. A poster declares it the Chinese New Year of 2025, the Year of the Snake. Also featured in the photos is Lucky the Pizza Dog, who readers of the comics are sure to be thrilled to see brought to life.
Check out the pictures below:
? Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld are seen filming #Hawkeye in Chinatown, in New York. ? pic.twitter.com/dxgiMtsJB2
— Jeremy Renner Net (@JRennerNet) December 3, 2020
With the exception of period pieces like Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain Marvel, the majority of Marvel Cinematic Universe films have taken place in the present — that is to say, the year they were released– but that shifted with Endgame, which included a five-year time jump. (You mean those lucky bastards got to skip 2020 entirely?!) That was later reflected in Spider-Man: Far From Home. It makes sense that the projects moving forward would likewise be set in the not-so-distant future.
Of course, COVID-19 has created a snag as Black Widow (another “period piece”) has seen its release pushed back again and again. Production on the Disney+ shows Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision was halted.
The gap in time between the real world “now” and the MCU “future” has shrunk slightly. Will we catch up to the “present” in the films and television projects soon? It seems more likely after all this.
It was just announced that Hawkeye would also star Vera Farmiga as Kate’s mother Eleanor, Florence Pugh reprising her Black Widow role as Yelena Belova, Fra Fee as a mercenary called Kazi (or “The Clown”), Tony Dalton as Clint’s mentor Jack Duquesne/The Swordsman, Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez/Echo (a character that, along with Clint, occupied the identity of Ronin in the comics), and Zahn McClarnon as Maya’s father Willie “Crazy Horse do” Lincoln.
We don’t yet know when Hawkeye will arrive on Disney+, but at this time, it is expected sometime in 2021.
How does the series look so far?
