Hawkeye gets a bad rep in the MCU and I don’t think it’s warranted in some cases. Yes, we’ve yet to see an in-depth look at his character, but he got just as much screen time as Romanov and Banner in The Avengers. That being said, it doesn’t help Renner’s case for a more repletive Hawkeye when it looks like scenes were planned for him in ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, but scheduling conflicts prevented him from doing them.

Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors for both Captain America films, talked with Screenrant and told them that scenes with Hawkeye were written and planned, but were eventually cut due to scheduling conflicts.

Joe and this to say when asked if Hawkeye was going to be an antagonist in the film.

What it was going to be, we were trying to complicate the relationship between Cap and his S.H.I.E.L.D agent friends. If Hawkeye got a call from S.H.I.E.L.D saying Captain America is a fugitive, would he listen to that call or not listen to that call? That sequence actually was heartbreaking for us to cut it. I think it ultimately might have been a conflict with Renner’s schedule. But there was a great sequence where Hawkeye was chasing Cap through Washington D.C. there was an awesome sequence where they confronted each other in a ravine on the outskirts of D.C. and Hawkeye was shooting a series of arrows closing in on Cap, Cap closing in on him. And then Cap took him down and he realized for the first time that Hawkeye was trying to trick S.H.I.E.L.D, where he whispered something into Cap’s ear that Cap had a tracker on his suit and to punch Hawkeye to make it look real, because there was a Quinjet hovering above where they were watching the feedback back at S.H.I.E.L.D.

So it was a cool sequence. But look, there’s a million iterations of films, and especially when dealing with Marvel movies where characters can come in or come out during the creative process. And you keep working and working like a Rubik’s Cube till you find the right configuration where everything lines up. So even though we lost that sequence, I think we may have streamlined the movie and made it a little bit more propulsive.

Rumours have been going around that Hawkeye and The Hulk will get significant time in Age Of Ultron to explain what they have been up to since the battle of New York, but nothing to suggest that they will make it through the film to perhaps have any solo films in the future.

Source

• screenrant.com
• slashfilm.com