Jeremy Renner Is Hawkeye In The Avengers Movie! And Joss Whedon Is Writing It?!

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OnTheRedCarpet caught up with Joss Whedon at the Convention today, and he had two pieces of knowledge to drop onto our collective brains.

For one, he confirmed that Jeremy Renner, the star of the Academy Award Winning Best Picture The Hurt Locker, will be playing Clint “Hawkeye” Barton. This shoots down the possible Josh “James Sawyer” Holloway rumor, but still gives the cast a strong actor to play everyone’s favorite archer.

But the big boy, to me at least, is that Whedon is not only directing the movie, but writing it as well! This might just be because I’m a fanboy, but Joss Whedon writing and directing the Avengers just has me more pumped for it than before.

So cool.

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