Hawkeye
Florence Pugh’s 5 Most Iconic Roles (So Far)
Happy 26th birthday to Florence Pugh! Come for the consistently bonkers acting skills, stay for the baking videos — Florence is a joy to behold no matter the project. Over the past few years, Pugh has proven that she can truly do it all, knocking it out of the park in indie darlings and massive blockbusters alike. After a critical breakthrough in 2016, Florence starred in three major, wildly different releases in 2019, and has only continued to captivate the screen since. It’s clear that there’s so much more in store from the actress, but, in the meantime, we’ve rounded up five of her best roles so far. — Mary SirokyContributing Editor 05. Lady Macbeth (2016) [embedded content] Related Video This 2016 film was a turning point for Pugh. Her brooding performance in the titular role caught th...
The MCU’s Marvelous Year of Representation: How 2021 Amplified New Voices and Told New Stories
With each passing year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands its domination over pop culture, and in 2021, the franchise made some huge new strides. Not only did Marvel start taking full advantage of both theaters and Disney+ as platforms for storytelling, delivering five new TV series in addition to four films, but there was a whole new sense of inclusion both on screen and behind the camera. With nearly every release, the MCU amplified representation of different genders, races, sexualities, and abilities like never before. To be clear, there is still a lot of progress to be made across all these categories. But the dominant force in pop culture (at least, if box office receipts are any measurement) put serious focus on ensuring that a larger contingent of the global audience feels seen...
Why Hawkeye Was the Best MCU Adventure of 2021
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the season finale of Hawkeye, “The Boss.”] 2021 was the MCU’s busiest year to date, thanks to films and shows delayed by the pandemic. It was also a period rich with the inclusion of new voices behind the scenes and on-screen, as well as some of the franchise’s most experimental storytelling to date. From WandaVision breaking all the fourth walls to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings incorporating wuxia and mythical wonder to Loki giving us the gift of Richard E. Grant in that costume, Marvel delivered some truly wild moments. Given all of that, it could have been the case that Hawkeye, now having completed its six-episode run on Disney+, would have ended up being a bit of an afterthought. Instead, the complete series may not f...
Hawkeye Head Writer on What Superheroes and Mad Men Have in Common and How Hamilton Inspired That Captain America Musical
Hawkeye head writer Jonathan Igla, it turns out, is uniquely suited to the role of telling the story of the least powerful, but perhaps most relatable Avenger. For one thing, the experienced writer/producer’s credits include the well-regarded series Mad Men, Bridgerton, Pitch, and Sorry for Your Loss. For another, he knows his way around a bow and arrow. And also, as he tells Consequence, “I read everything in the comic book world, I really grew up with Marvel Comics and I love all of the biggest and smallest stuff as a writer.” One of those comics, the 2012 Hawkeye series written by Matt Fraction with art by David Aja, was a very clear inspiration point for the six-episode series which just debuted on Disney+. The latest TV adventure spotlighting a specific MCU player, Hawkeye features Je...
Why Disney+’s Hawkeye Takes Place at Christmas
The upcoming Disney+ series Hawkeye is set apart from other MCU adventures by a number of factors, but here’s a big one: It’s officially a holiday story. The series begins in the days before Christmas, with O.G. Avenger Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) trying to spend some time with his family — until, of course, things go sideways. This marks the first major MCU project to be set at Christmas since Iron Man 3, and as part of an extended interview with Consequence, head writer Jonathan Igla (Mad Men) explained that the series being set at Christmas was something that came out of early conversations in the writers’ room, as they established a structure for the season where each episode represents one day in the week leading up to Christmas. As Igla says, “I love the compressed time frame and th...
‘Hawkeye’ To Premiere on Disney+ With 2 Episodes, New Trailer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chuck Zlotnick / Disney Now that Marvel’s What If…? animated series is a wrap (those last two episodes were off the chain), fans are (somewhat) eagerly awaiting the premiere of Disney+’s next MCU spinoff series, Hawkeye, and though it’s basically a month away, fans will be getting a holiday treat when it does drop. According to Deadline, the hero with the bow and arrow will be debuting in his own series on November 24th with not one, but two episodes (a la WandaVision) so that heads who fill up on turkey will have more reason to not get up off the couch for a minute. Of course after its Thanksgiving Thursday premiere, the series will drop a new episode every Wednesday as that’s become Disney’s preferred day for Marvel-related shows. To hype up the upcomin...
Peep The Trailer To Marvel’s ‘Hawkeye’ Series On Disney+
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chuck Zlotnick / Disney Disney+ really has a knack for taking overlooked Avengers characters and giving them some real entertaining solo series, and now Hawkeye is next in line to get the solo adventure treatment. Source: Chuck Zlotnick / Disney Today Disney dropped the first trailer for the Jeremy Renner starring Hawkeye series in which the man with the bow and arrow is out to look for someone who’s replicating his Ronin days during Infinity War’s “blip” event. Along the way Hawkeye runs into one Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) who too knows a thing or two about bows and arrows and gets taken under the Hawk’s wing for training and possibly becoming the next Hawkeye in the MCU. We thought he was training his daughter to take up that mantle? The Christmas-t...
