Corona | Coming Attractions

So now that the geekosphere got buzzing about the possibility of The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner donning Hawkeye's purple costume from a tidbit the actor dropped at the start of last month, Movieline asked Renner for an update as to where things stand.

"That was just one of those things that got blown way out of proportion. It was an idea," he explained to the site. "Those Marvel guys, I'm a big fan of them. They're so smart about how they want to do these things — they have Captain America, and Thor coming around, Iron Man 2, and then I happen to know Zak Penn, who's writing The Avengers. So they thought Hawkeye is an interesting role, and asked me if I knew anything about him. I said no, so they gave me their sort of spiel on what he was, and I thought that it was kind of interesting. The only reason it came out this early, because Avengers is two years away, is that they're thinking OK, we may throw him in Thor, we may not, as a cameo. You know what I mean? So there's truth that we talked about it, but there's no truth to me doing it."

Yet.