The TV show was originally tentatively planned as a movie, which was even included in Jeremy Renner's contract. However, Kevin Feige felt that it would be a better fit as a Disney+ show, and Renner agreed to the change.Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld both learned American Sign Language to welcome Alaqua Cox to the set.Maya Lopez/Echo is the second deaf superhuman to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first was Makkari in Eternals (2021), played by Lauren Ridloff. Both are played by real-life deaf actresses.Alaqua Cox is Native American and deaf, just like her character Maya Lopez.Darnell Besaw who played young Maya is the cousin of Adult Maya actress Alaqua Cox. Unlike her cousin, Besaw is not deaf.Live action and MCU debut of young avenger Kate Bishop.The series is based on the acclaimed Hawkeye comic series by Matt Fraction, David Aja, and Javier Pulido. It primarily dealt with Clint Barton on his "day off" from the Avengers, and depicted him as a hard luck, constantly beaten up, half awake, often unlucky guy helping keep his neighborhood safe, getting swept into side missions, and getting made fun of by Kate Bishop.Hailee Steinfeld previously starred as Gwen Stacy in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). She will reprise the role in the sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Part One (2022).Even though the name of Yelena is always written with a "Y", in Russian it is written starting with an "E" since it is the six letter in the Russian alphabet and is spelled as "Ye"During the car chase scene in Hawkeye: Echoes (2021), the song playing on the radio is "A Mad Russian's Christmas" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra.Olivia Cooke and Taissa Farmiga were in the running for Kate Bishop before Hailee Steinfeld was cast (Taissa is the younger sister of Vera Farmiga, who plays Kate's mother Eleanor).According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney+ chose Jonathan Igla as writer, executive producer, and de facto showrunner on Hawkeye. Igla previously served as a writer and story editor on Mad Men.Marvel announced during their SDCC 2019 appearance that the Hawkeye series will arrive in Fall of 2021.During the scene featuring "Rogers: The Musical" one of the actors is played by Adam Pascal who played the character of "Roger" in the musical (and movie version of) RENT.Clint Barton has the same tattoos on his arm from Avengers: Endgame (2019).Hailee Steinfeld, Kate Bishop in the series, is the latest of actors/actresses who have appeared in both the Transformers live-action film franchise (she played Charlie Watson in Bumblebee (2018)) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Others are:-Rachael Taylor played Maggie Madsen in Transformers (2007) and Trish Walker in Jessica Jones (2015) as in The Defenders (2017).-Laura Haddock played Vivian Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Autograph Seeker in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) as in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).-Titus Welliver played James Savoy in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Felix Blake in Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012) as in Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. (2014) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).-Stanley Tucci played Joshua Joyce Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Merlin in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and Abraham Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). He also voiced Erskine in What If...?: What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? (2021).-Anthony Hopkins played Sir Edmund Burton in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and Odin in Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).-Hugo Weaving voiced Megatron in Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (he was replaced by Frank Welker in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)), and Johann Schmidt/Red Skull in (Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).-Jorge Lendeborg Jr. played Memo in Bumblebee (2018) and Jason Ionello in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).-Nicola Peltz played Tessa Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and New Inhuman in Inhumans: Behold... The Inhumans (2017).-Gemma Chan voiced Quintessa in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and played Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel (2019) and Sersi in Eternals (2021).Both Liana Ramirez and Artemis campaigned to get the role of Kate Bishop.Vincent D'Onofrio had denied his involvement on social media when quizzed about his potential return, but after the villain was seen in episide 5 Hawkeye: Ronin (2021), he finally confirmed his return with the caption "When I was a boy..."Mexican actor Tony Dalton plays the French superhero Jacques Duquesne/Swordsman. In addition to be being an early Marvel supervillain turned hero, he was originally regarded as Hawkeye's mentor in archery as a boy at a circus until Barton discovers him stealing from the business. That origin was eventually retconned with Hawkeye's true archery mentor was revealed to be another circus performer called Buck Chisholm/Trick-Shot while Duquesne taught Barton swordsmanship and throwing blades.Vincent D'Onofrio reprises the role of Wilson Fisk/Kingpin from Daredevil (2015). Coincidentally, Hawkeye: Ronin (2021), which revealed D'Onofrio's character in the show aired on December 15th, just two days prior to the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which featured Charlie Cox reprising the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil from Daredevil (2015).Florence Pugh was blocked from posting on Instagram for revealing her character's return, since that she spoiled the series before it was aired.Many fans have speculated that Marvel Disney may have rebooted Kingpin due to his character being toned down in comparison to his appearance in Marvel Netflix's Daredevil (2015). However, Vincent D'Onofrio has confirmed that the Kingpin in Marvel Disney's Hawkeye (2021) is the same exact Kingpin from Marvel Netflix's Daredevil (2015). The toning down of his character is likely due to Hawkeye being rated for younger viewers than Daredevil.

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