Hawkeye Director Reveals Another Avenger Almost Appeared in the Series

Hawkeye finally made its premiere on Disney+ and, so far, fans are delighted on seeing Clint Barton and Kate Bishop's adventure around the New York holiday season. But since it is set in the MCU and considering Clint's connection to a lot of the characters, fans are also wondering if we might see another Avenger pop up in the series. As it turns out, it almost happened.

Speaking with The Playlist, Hawkeye director Rhys Thomas revealed that he wanted Paul Rudd's Ant-Man to appear in the series, but Marvel declined the idea. He said, "I don't want to reveal anything because we do kinda get to introduce [some characters]. Here's one-Ant-Man. Paul [Rudd] and Jeremy's dynamic together I enjoy. I enjoyed their press tour dynamic when they were on the Avengers run. So [Ant-Man] was a character that felt like a fun way to play at the absurdity of Clint's situation...but I did get to have a little nod to that."

He also shared that he pitched a lot of ideas to Marvel, but some of them were declined since they are already set on another project, "I'd be firing off these notes and ideas. Sometimes, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I've solved it!' And you get all excited about pitching it, and then that's when someone like Kevin [Feige], the overarching brain of it all, will go, 'Yeah, that's really good and all but yeah, we're already doing that in this movie.'...They don't overwhelm you. They don't go, 'Okay, here's a big book and plan, so make sure you don't touch the sides, don't do that.' They really just wait for you to stumble into them, and they kinda push you back in another direction."

It would be great to see Ant-Man pop up in Hawkeye and fans will surely enjoy his appearance. However, he might be too distracting if he does show up even in a small cameo and he might not actually serve the story. He is also already set to appear next in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Also, technically, Ant-Man still "appeared" in the series as a character in Rogers: The Musical and a mascot in the scene when Clint and Kate were in Times Square.

The responses to the two episodes of the series so far have been mostly positive. Given what was teased by the end of the second episode, it looks like it's going to be a bumpy ride for Clint and Kate in the following episodes.

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New episodes of Hawkeye streams every Wednesday on Disney+.