Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’
Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’
Trust Disney to kick him while he's down
They can get a masked CGI to do it for less. CGI A.I. body doubles is gonna make them rich.
Eventually, but I think we’re still in uncanny valley territory wrt complex movements (what action shows need)
Be curious to see how that would go down... unless he signed away his likeness.
I never knew about this. What a weird, fucked up thing to do.
I was never a fan of his, but when I saw this I decided he's just not a good person. What a gross thing to do to people who support you. I hope to not have to see him in anything going forward.
That screams narcissism for sure
Idk man.
I went to the Wiki article, and it's formatted in a way that basically implies he did the app himself.
Renner explained the shutdown in a goodbye post. “Due to clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app, I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app, to shut it down immediately and refund anyone who has purchased any stars over the last 90 days,” he wrote. Stars are the app’s version of currency. “What was supposed to be a place for fans to connect with each other has turned into a place that is everything I detest and can’t or won’t condone.”
So it's some company called ESCAPEX. I could put money, but not a lot of it, on them having sold Renner the concept instead of the other way around. Artists always have tons of passive income from things like that, and it seems like it ran pretty smoothly for a few years, until the trolls, and when he found out, he shut it down.
Idk maybe it was his idea and he only shut it down when it became completely uncontrollable idk.
But I don't know, and definitely haven't seen enough evidence to say he's a bad person.
Edit yeah
One of the main controversies of Renner's app was its marketing. The app's developers, Escapex, specialized in and grew famous for making similar monetized apps for celebrities.[13][8] The marketing campaign was based on direct contact with Renner, whose chances were increased with regular payments for "stars",[17] although very few encounters seemed to happen with Renner himself.[18] The multiple problems with the app led the CEO of Escapex, Sephi Shapira, to call the app a "freak situation", and added "Am I concerned about this? Not more than I'm concerned about 50 other things I'm dealing with as a startup company."[17] Along with the marketing failures, the app was seen as misrepresenting itself as seemingly erotic with some advertisements featuring Renner suggestively staring at the camera, despite the actual app being initially considered safe for children.[14]
I think is more a case of Renner being taken advantage of by some asshole company than him straight up being an asshole
Depends on how much his character was supposed appear.
If it was just cameos, with Kate Bishop/Hailee Steinfeld getting most of the screentime, then of course.
How can it be Hawkeye without … you know … Hawkeye?
Kyyate... Beeshop
Are you just repeating her name so she knows you know it?
Good for him, and he’s just asking for his original salary. Pay this man!👏👏👏 Isn’t Hawkeye supposed to be one of the better Marvel Disney+ shows anyway? Watch them come crawling back
I didn't watch it but my understanding is that Hawkeye passed on the torch and he probably was going to be more in the background instead of the star. I don't know the exact parameters but I imagine it would not be as much screen time or physically demanding scenes. Fuck Disney for being a shitty company but I'm not sure if this is 100% attributable to that.
It was campy. Not great, but not terrible. Formulaic but overall okay.
I feel like The Marvels (I think?) ties the ending of Hawkeye with the rest of the MCU.
The best thing about Hawkeye was the Florence Pough (sp?) character. Just pure comedy.
Season 1 is all about the character being completely worn out so now he fits the role even more
I saw season one as kind of passing the torch anyway. If he didn’t appear in season two, the show would be just fine without him.
I’m a Hawkeye fan, not a Renner fan.
Semi-off-topic, but a reminder that Disney (and Disney+ in particular) is on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction list.
Maybe they're speculating only half the people will watch it, based on previous trends. I sure didn't watch the first one.
I liked it a lot. It was very reminiscent of the Matt Fraction run on Hawkeye in the mid 2010s, which was incredible.
But yeah, nobody watches most Marvel shows.
Oh no... rich person gets offered to be paid millions instead of being paid millions...
On the other hand there's its always good to fight for an artist when the opponent is Disney.
Exactly
they tried something similar(not so similar) with scarlett johansan, where they tried to sneakingly use the streaming income to avoid paying her what she was owed on her contract.
I sort of find it funny and sad that some people expect another person to do the same work (or similar) for half the salary. While most of us would not do that if it wasn’t needed. Sure, he’s rich but money is money.
Would you do the same work you’re currently doing for half the salary when you know, you can get the same or better salary elsewhere? I don’t think so.
Renner went on to suggest that the proposed lower salary was a result of his near-fatal 2023
Though his take on this is.. well, odd.
“This is not Marvel, mind you. This is like, just Disney, not even really Disney. It’s just the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to go fly a kite. I mean, just at the at the insult offer. So we didn’t see eye to eye on it,”
It’s sad that he became arrogant. He could’ve just let it at “no, I will not do it”.
I don't know about the specific of the deal or what S2 will actually contain, but as I understand S1 set up a new Hawkeye so maybe S2 would've had Renner not as the main character and possibly not doing the same amount of work. If he is going to do less work it would make sense to also pay less. This of course is speculation as we don't know actually know what S2 would've been about or what deal was presented to Renner. All we know is Renners side where he claims it would've been the same amount of work and I don't think I need to explain how that can't be taken as the absolute truth. The rest of what he said really makes me question if he's being completely honest or is he skewing the story to make himself look like the good guy.
But if he is telling the truth it would be pretty fucked up to offer half the salary for the same amount of work.
Many people are ignoring another part of the formula. Actors draw views. Renner is the main interest I have in Hawkeye. Kate Bishop is a fine character, but personally Renner is why I watched season 1. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'nofrio are the reason I watched the new Daredevil series.
Renner might be blowing it out of proportion, but the reality is without his involvement I'm probably going to skip it.
I'll give each character a chance to stand on their own but I'm not personally interested in Kate Bishop as a story driver.
If i made millions doing very little work in a job that simmers down slowly, because all i peoduce is slob that no one cares for. Yes, i might take a paycut.
That’s what you say now because you are not in that situation. But I’m quite certain you would not. Because if you know, you used to have for example 500k salary and suddenly it would be 250k, you would refuse and want the full 500k. No matter whether you produce “slob”.
I certainly would not be okay with getting my salary suddenly halved. No matter what kind of work or salary it first was.
it wont stop there, now they know your "easy to bait and switch" so they will offer even less next time.
His 'joke' about a 'fictional character' being a slut tells me all I need to know about him. He is insufferable and everything I have seen him in was made worse by his presence.
What's wrong with being a slut? I'm a slut.
As The Gonz wrote about 35 years ago,"She's a slut, and you want to be." Truer words have never been penned.
I don't know the guy, but I thought his acting was top-notch. I'm sorry you know him so well.
Which character, etc?
They were asked about Black Widow being with Hawkeye or Captain America and ending up with Hulk and Renner jokingly responds "she's a slut" and Chris Evans laughed and it was nothing. A joke, a silly joke, am obvious one, it was nothing.
Bourne Legacy is the best Bourne film. He might be insufferable. I don't know they guy.