Around my house Jeremy Renner is known simply as The Hurt Locker. I suspect this nickname, taken from the vague meaning of the Oscar-nominated film’s title, is going to stick. We’ll be at a Coffee Bean and get all excited because The Hurt Locker is in front of us ordering a latte.
Anyway, The Hurt Locker could be changing his branch of service – Renner is in talks to become the star of Peter Berg’s Battleship. A couple of months ago I went along with Berg to visit the USS Sterrett, a naval Destroyer, and he revealed that lead character in his film doesn’t pilot a battleship but rather is the CO of a Destroyer, and he’ll have a team of five guys working with him. Renner would be that CO.
If he takes the role, that is. Renner is in big time talks for a top secret summer project that would conflict with Battleship. The rumor? It’s The First Avenger: Captain America, although that would go against all the casting rules director Joe Johnston has thrown out there. Still, Renner has been in touch with the Marvel guys, and while he’s a touch old he would make a terrific Cap.
via The Hollywood Reporter
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Hey, whatever happened to "Wolf Week"? All we get is one entry? Am I the only person bothered by this?
He's not good looking enough to be a first tier Marvel character and therefore is automatically disqualified as Capo America. Reality is a bitch.
It was a whole week of WOLFMAN related articles and interviews. What are you upset about? I had something up every single day.
For Cap to "sell" he has to be a badass, and it looks like Renner could be that badass, he played reckless really well in Hurt Locker, and it could work for Cap too, especially if it's a story of his first mission or …his last…DUN DUN DUN!. Here's hoping.
The problem Renner is Cap is that he's almost too "edgy" for the role. He has that "don't trust him" aspect to every character he's ever played.
He is to untrustworthy characters what Michelle Rodriguez is to dead Latinas.
Renner can plausibly pass for ten years younger than he is, he'd be a fine Cap. Now if only we could get Anthony Mackie as The Falcon and change the storyline to be about them taking on the Tea Parties.
Bravo, BurmaShave. That's pretty funny. Anthony Mackie gets no love for his performance. He kicks ass in that sniper scene.
Renner has too much attitude and sarcasm to be the Cap. Steve Rogers tends to be quite sincere and, dare i say it, bland. And is he tall enough?
It's probably his role as Hawkeye IN the Cap film.
The hurt locker is the place soldiers go to if they are killed by the bomb they are trying to disarm. Nothing vague about it all.
Boots with some lifts should help with solving any height problems.
No one's mentioned the Winter Soldier, maybe Renner could be up for THAT. I don't mean the WWII-era Bucky Barnes, but the current version of Bucky that was found after the same explosion that put Cap out of action, brainwashed, and used as an assassin while being in and out of deep freeze for 60+ years. He's younger than Cap, but could appear physically older because of still being active on and off during the time that Cap was on ice. He's a perfect "not sure we can trust this guy". He could be a secondary villain/henchman in the Avengers movie who could ultimately see that he was being used or would see that he's been on the wrong side the entire time, etc., before becoming a hero again.
No, he wouldn't be a good Cap. He's too old and he just couldn't carry the role.
Renner wouldn't make a good Cap. He's too short, and his nose is too big. Sorry, unapologetic Cap super-fan here, and I'm hoping they find an unknown who fits the bill.
Renner's stuck in typecast hell already?
We know him well at AICN. Just thought you'd like to know.
Cap is supposed to be an ultra good looking masculine man. Renner is a killer actor but Cap he aint. Not even Hawkeye I'd say. Maybe a villain.
Might be a smart move to not have him as Mr Boring Clean-Cut Boy Scout. Tim Roth proved in Hulk 2 you don't need to be 7 feet tall to be a convincing super-soldier and Iron Man proved audiences like a hero with a little shit under his fingernails.
There's always the possibility that the role he's going up for isn't Cap, but rather one of the Invaders, or possibly even a villainous role.
Or yeah, they got him for Hawkeye and he's cameoing in the modern-day "endcaps" that Johnston's talked about.
I would like to see Mark Valley as Capt'. I think he could pull it off easily.
You guys are aware he's an actor, right? If he was "edgy" in The Hurt Locker it's likely because he was acting edgy. Some of you are dumb enough to be Hollywood producers.
Renner is the perfect Cap. He has the ability to be the old 40s Cap and the modern Cap that can stare down even a god. He's perfect for the role. Marvel would be stupid not to cast him. Nice of them to agree with me in that case, because I have wanted Renner to be Cap for a couple of years now.
Renner would be PERFECT for Cap. Originally I felt Nathan Fillion would have been perfect for the role, however given that Fillion is a little too old for the job by Johnstons standards, Renner is the young quasi-Fillion clone that could fit the role nicely.
Give the role of Cap'n to Kevin Sorbo.
Comment #23-I looked at IMDB, and they're the same age. In fact, Renner is a couple months older.
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