The Hollywood Reporter has learned Mad Men writer Jonathan Igla has been tapped to pen Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye series for Marvel Studios and Disney Plus.
Marvel Studios’ Phase 4 line-up includes a slate of television series’ for Disney Plus and Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye will be at the center of one of those shows. Now, Mad Men writer Jonathan Igla has joined Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye as a writer and executive producer on the Disney Plus series.
Jonathan Igla wrote six episodes of Mad Men and also served as an executive story editor on the acclaimed AMC drama. In addition to his work on Mad Men, Jonathan Igla writing credits include Masters of Sex, Pitch, Shut Eye, and Elizabeth Olsen’s Sorry for Your Loss.
AMC’s Mad Men was a period drama television series that centered on the ruthles men and women of Madison Avenue advertising in the ’60s. The success of Mad Men helped establish AMC as a one of the networks where viewers could expect acclaimed television series’.
Full details on Hawkeye are currently under wraps, though the Disney Plus series will follow Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton as he prepares to pass the mantle to Kate Bishop. In the comics, Kate Bishop is the third character and first woman to assume to the Hawkeye name.
Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye is just one of the many projects Marvel Studios is developing for Disney Plus. The first of these Marvel Studios series’ for Disney Plus will be The Falcon and the Winter Soldier followed by WandaVision, Loki, and an animated What If? show.
Hawkeye is currently scheduled to premiere on Disney Plus in Fall 2021.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
