Cut 'Steve Rogers'/'Hawkeye' Fight Scene For CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Revealed
We've heard a lot about the original plan to include Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but now co-director Joe Russo has revealed specific details about what it would have entailed...who came out on top when the two Avengers went toe to toe? Find out here!
We've heard a lot about plans for Hawkeye to originally make an appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but Screen Rant are the first to ask directors Joe and Anthony Russo about what the scene involving Jeremy Renner would have entailed. It sounds like a fantastic sequence as Steve Rogers would have found himself on the run from Clint Barton with a fight between the two revealing that the archer was in fact loyal to his Avengers teammate. It would also go some way in explaining why Cap ditched his S.H.I.E.L.D. suit (though that was actually addressed in a deleted scene on the DVD and Blu-ray). While it's hard to imagine a variation of this scene happening now, hopefully Renner will indeed make an appearance in Captain America 3...
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 it. 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.
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