HAWKEYE Finds Its Directors In TROOP ZERO's Bert and Bertie & STATEN ISLAND SUMMER's Rhys Thomas

HAWKEYE Finds Its Directors In TROOP ZERO's Bert and Bertie & STATEN ISLAND SUMMER's Rhys Thomas

Unlike The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision and Loki, Marvel's Hawkeye starring Jeremy Renner will be enlisting the services of two different sets of directors to helm the six episodes.

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By RohanPatel - Jul 17, 2020 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Hawkeye
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Marvel Studios has tapped directing duo Bert and Bertie, a.k.a. Amber Finlayson and Katie Ellwood, and Rhys Thomas to direct the upcoming Hawkeye Disney+ series, which will see 2x Academy Award-nominee Jeremy Renner reprise the title role as the fan-favorite archer. 

While unconfirmed, Bert and Bertie will presumably helm the first half of the six-episode miniseries while Thomas will tackle the latter half, with Jonathan Igla (Mad Men, Pitch) writing and serving as showrunner.

Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but the series is expected to introduce Kate Bishop to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Casting remains a mystery for now as well, but Academy Award-nominee Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee; True Grit) has been heavily rumored to be the frontrunner to play Bishop.

A production start date wasn't given, but Hawkeye was previously rumored to begin filming at the tailend of this year. 

Bert and Bertie are likely best known for their coming-of-age comedy Troop Zero, which starred Academy Award-winner Viola Davis (Suicide Squad; How to Get Away with Murder) and Mckenna Grace (Captain Marvel; Gifted). Their credits also include episodes of Showtime's Kidding starring 2x Golden Globe-winner Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty; Sonic the Hedgehog) and Hulu's The Great starring Elle Fanning (Maleficent; We Bought a Zoo) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past; X-Men: Apocalypse). 

Thomas is a Primetime Emmy-winner and a Saturday Night Live alum, best known for helming the comedy Staten Island Summer, which featured a number of SNL alumni. His credits also include an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch.

This is the first Marvel show to enlist multiple sets of directors after the previously announced series elected to have just one helmer for the entire run - Kari Skogland is directing The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with Malcolm Spellman serving as showrunner, Matt Shakman is directing WandaVision with Jac Schaeffer serving as showrunner, and Kate Herron is directing Loki with Michael Waldron serving as showrunner. 

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tmp3
tmp3 - 7/17/2020, 3:03 PM
Thomas directed John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, lol. That’s pretty cool.
Don’t know anything about what the duo did though
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/17/2020, 3:06 PM


tmp3
tmp3 - 7/17/2020, 3:09 PM
@Doomsday8888 - I know you mean Baltazar, but that image just reminded me that this show is adapting Faction’s misanthropic Hawkeye, which is so far removed from what Renner’s take has been so far lol
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/17/2020, 3:18 PM
@tmp3
He would've loved that! :')

>Me the day @BaltazarOs comes back




















Shout out to @NinnesMBC!
John456
John456 - 7/17/2020, 3:37 PM
Hopefully this will be like the Matt Fraction comic run but this show sounds like it will be given Clint the shaft again for the female Hawkeye Kate.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/17/2020, 4:22 PM
They’re not messing around with these shows. Getting great talent behind the camera.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 7/17/2020, 4:26 PM
Origame
Origame - 7/18/2020, 8:04 AM
@L0RDbuckethead -
Kyos
Kyos - 7/17/2020, 4:53 PM
So, Keanu Reeves is making a comic book, essentialy starring himself as a 'The Old Guard'² like character. Huh.

https://geektyrant.com/news/keanu-reeves-is-writing-a-new-comic-book-titled-rrzrkr-and-the-main-character-looks-like-him
CapnMurphy2021
CapnMurphy2021 - 7/17/2020, 6:45 PM
@Kyos - and Matt Kindt is writing it!!! Can’t wait... everything he writes is fantastic!
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 7/17/2020, 5:08 PM
But have they locked down Hailee yet? I need it to be done!
Battabing
Battabing - 7/17/2020, 11:06 PM
@LongMayHeReign -
Nope. She's out.
https://www.cbr.com/report-hailee-steinfeld-not-playing-kate-bishop-hawkeye-mcu-disney/

Five gets you ten she's the new Batgirl.
JustALurker
JustALurker - 7/17/2020, 11:47 PM
@Battabing - Nooo! Did she leave the project, or did the new directors require a different cast?
inkniron
inkniron - 7/18/2020, 6:06 AM
@LongMayHeReign - Hailee can kick rocks. Just sign up Odeya Rush and move on.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/18/2020, 11:36 AM
@Battabing - Yeah, she certainly looks like Jeffrey Wright's kid 🙄
Battabing
Battabing - 7/18/2020, 2:30 PM
@tmp3 - She could be adopted.
Also, it's looking like Reeves's Batman is not part of the DCEU.
Hailee would be the Barbara Gordon trained by Keaton's Bruce Wayne when he arrives from the Flashpoint event.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/18/2020, 2:41 PM
@Battabing - Imagine losing out an MCU role and your consolation prize is a Batgirl film from the writer of Birds of Prey. Yikes.
Also, after how hard that movie absolutely bombed, don't be surprised if Batgirl was quietly shelved :)
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 7/18/2020, 2:51 PM
@Battabing -

Battabing
Battabing - 7/18/2020, 3:26 PM
@tmp3 - Well, Steinfeld was in Bumblebee, which was also written by the writer of Birds of Prey.
In any case, maybe she heard Keaton was involved and chose working with him over working with Renner. Plus, it'll be her big screen solo franchise.
Battabing
Battabing - 7/18/2020, 3:29 PM
Also, we don't know if Batgirl with Hodson has changed now that it's slowly becoming the Batgirl Beyond movie.
Battabing
Battabing - 7/18/2020, 3:32 PM
@tmp3 - Christina Hodson must be doing something right because Disney just hired her and Margot Robbie for the new Piraes franchise.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/18/2020, 3:42 PM
@Battabing - Ah yes, because Pirates of the Caribbean is a barometer for quality film-making 🙄
Akiva Goldsman constantly gets employed too, that doesn't make him any less of a shitty writer. Also, being the MCU's new Hawkeye is a lot more viable than being the Batgirl to a senile Batman. Hopefully WB cancels that trash and lets Matt Reeves cast Barbara Gordon for his take, since Hodson is gonna be 0/2 on DC projects pretty soon with how rancid Flash sounds.
Battabing
Battabing - 7/18/2020, 7:05 PM
@tmp3 -
Batgirl is more popular than either Hawkeye.
It makes sense that Steinfeld (hypothetically, of course) would want a solo film franchise sharing the lead with Keaton over a Disney+ show with Renner. She's said she wants to be Batgirl. That's probably the choice the majority of actresses would make.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/18/2020, 7:19 PM
@Battabing - lmfao. Marvel can get guys like Christian Bale to play no-name villains, and Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, while DC is slumming it with guys like Ezra Miller and Noah Centenio. Actors would absolutely rather work at Marvel
Battabing
Battabing - 7/19/2020, 12:39 AM
@tmp3 -
Christian Bale can slum it out with Marvel after 8 years, $2.3B, and Oscar wins with DC's Batman.
Gyllenhaal needs the check.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/19/2020, 5:36 AM
@Battabing - You’re such a blind shill if you actually think actors would rather work for the company that produced bombs like Birds of Prey and critically destroyed bombs like Justice League than the company that just released the highest grossing film of all time. DC couldn’t even get any big actors for Wonder Woman 2, Emma Stone said no to Cheetah lmao
The Batman is currently the only upcoming DC film with a decent cast, while most MCU films get big names regularly. [frick]ing Ezra Miller, a failing actor, is The Flash, while over at Marvel they just got Florence Pugh for Black Widow 2.0
Battabing
Battabing - 7/19/2020, 10:02 AM
@tmp3 -
Who's sounding like a shill now?
Clean your mouth, dude.
Battabing
Battabing - 7/19/2020, 10:15 AM
@tmp3 -
I was the first person around here to call Chris Nolan out on his BULLSHIT regarding COVID-19 while your bitch-ass was going on about "respecting the artist" and "it's not about money".
But after you shut your [frick]ing mouth for a minute, you came around.
Try it again.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/19/2020, 10:29 AM
@Battabing - Wow, you're literally so dumb 😂
I've criticized Marvel before, I've been accused of being a "Disney hater" on numerous occasions, I'm just not some dumb, tribalist fanboy like you are. You seem so unable to not keep DC dick in your mouth that it's almost impressive, and then you post asinine shit about TV ratings and box office - two things that you seem to know nothing about. You've literally defended the dumbing down of the Flash movie just because that's the direction that DC is taking it as opposed to it being your actual opinion.
Marvel gets bigger actors than DC, that's just a fact. The Batman is the only upcoming DC film with legitimately great actors attached, the rest has shit like Kristen Wiig, Noah Centineo and John Cena lmao.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/19/2020, 10:35 AM
@Battabing - lmfao at you shitting on Chris Nolan but then defending failed screen-writers like Christina Hodson. Hey, anything to defend DC, right 😂
Battabing
Battabing - 7/19/2020, 12:38 PM
@tmp3 - I haven't argued about whether DC gets bigger actors or not. I'm not sure it even matters. Between the two, it's only been actors who have been in DC films who've gotten Academy Awards for acting roles.

Your issue with me is that I won't get down and suck Lindeloff's and Nolan's cocks with you.
Battabing
Battabing - 7/19/2020, 12:52 PM
@tmp3 -
1. I wasn't defending Christina Hodson.

2. Christina Hodson isn't trying to push for theaters to open during a pandemic surge.

3. Most people have come to agree that Nolan is being a selfish dick.

4. Hodson has written one DC film. Nolan wrote three of them and produced five of them. He's more DC than she is, and I criticized him for his behavior. You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth.
tmp3
tmp3 - 7/19/2020, 3:35 PM
@Battabing - You literally said actors would rather do a DC project than a Marvel project, when in actuality that’s not even close to true. Also, between the two it’s only DC films that have gotten actors razzie awards too, dummy. Why would Steinfeld rather join a failing franchise (birds of prey bombed and most of them are poorly reviewed) than the biggest franchise in the world? How are you even typing with so much DC dick in your mouth, man 😂😂😂
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