Jeremy Renner Says He’d Be ‘Happy’ to Make ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2

Jeremy Renner is open to more Hawkeye.

Following his claim that he turned down another season of the Disney+ series centered on the Marvel Cinematic Universe character, Renner, 54, said during a panel at Florida Supercon that he is “happy to do season two,” reported PopVerse. 

“I love that character,” he said of archer Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye. “I think there’s so much for us to do.”

“I’ll always dance with Marvel. I’ll always dance with them for sure when appropriate, when it’s rocking,” the Avengers star said.

Renner last played Clint in the first season of Hawkeye, which ran six episodes. The 2021 Disney+ series costarred Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop.

In May, Renner said in an interview on the High Performance app that he’d been offered “half” of his salary from the first season to make a second.

“I’m like, ‘It’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money, and eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount,’ ” the Mayor of Kingstown star said.

Renner also joked that it was his near-fatal snowmobile accident on New Years Day 2023 that caused Disney’s “penny pinchers” to offer less: “‘Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got ran over?’ ”

The Oscar nominee was nearly crushed to death by his 14,000-pound Snowcat plow in the 2023 incident, which took place in a driveway near Renner’s Lake Tahoe home. He sustained extensive injuries, including more than 35 bones, which required multiple titanium implants and a grueling rehabilitation journey. 

At Florida Supercon, Renner indicated that among the “many discussions” about a second season of Hawkeye was getting in shape to play the character again. “It’s getting my body right,” he said. “The timing of that will come, and if there’s still a need, want, and desire for it, then yeah.”

The Hawkeye series enabled him to “dive more into the character a bit, in a world that’s more grounded,” he said. “I always wanted to do more of that stuff, and there’s the incident that happened, and I have to get my body in shape to be able to sling arrows again and dive around and do all that stuff, but I’ll get there. I’m doing good.”  

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Among Renner’s upcoming projects is Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (in theaters Nov. 26 and on Netflix Dec. 12). His Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown will launch its fourth season on Oct. 26.