Its a powerful and still relevant story, and Renner excels in the role.

Hawkeye, again in a little picture coming out next May calledThe Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Den of Geek: Were you familiar with the Gary Webb story before this?

If not, how did you kind of find your way into this project?

It was during the firstAvengersin New Mexico I read the script.

Theres a lot of headwind to go make this movie.

Why on the big screen?

He said, Just keep reading, keep reading.

Im like, all right, all right.

I kept reading, kept reading.

And then I realized wait, this happened around the corner from where I grew up.

I grew up in Modesto, California, and San Joses just a stones throw from where I was.

I knew nothing about it…Im like wow, this needs to be looked at.

Its a great character.

Its got really wonderful themes of a journeyman or every man in very extraordinary circumstances.

Hes good at what he does.

Hes a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

But I love that hes kind of an everyman, a rebel and its David and Goliath thematically.

I love those kind of stories.

So creatively that made sense for me too as well.

So thats how we got the money to film the thing.

No ones throwing money at this thing.

What kind of research did you do?

Did you meet with his family or talk with people?

I mean, theres a lot to juggle here, a lot of spinning plates.

So I didnt want to get involved with the family until I added my own take.

I read a lot of his articles and things like that.

That got me on the road to find him, you know.

I dont know what was more egregious what the government was doing or what the press did to him.

They both were equally terrible, I think, which I like about it.

Theres no ultimate villain in this, you know.

you might blame theMercury News.

you’re able to blame his editor.

you could blame the government.

you’ve got the option to blame the CIA.

I dont think anybodys pointing any fingers.

Were just telling the story of what it was and like it is.

And people had to retract and apologize and a lot of it was a little too late.

Well, he maybe oversimplified and maybe theres some hyperbole there that can lead to misinterpretation.

But ultimately the text was the text and the media went after him because he scooped some big interests.

Now whistleblowers, if you will, are all kind of hiding amongst the Internet.

But Gary Webb was just out there on the front line just doing it.

I think thats a wonderful message about journalism being accountable.

So are you still inAvengersmode?

Are you done with that shoot?

Im all done withAvengers.

Just finished about a month ago and itll come out in May.

And I go on to doMission Impossible 5next week.

But Im enjoying this process.

Some people felt that Clint Barton was a little shortchanged the first time around.

Has Joss (Whedon,Avengerswriter/director) worked to correct that?

Well I think everybody knew, but at least I got to be in the movie.

But at least I got to be in the movie a lot which is great.

So theres a lot for me to do in this.

Theres some essential storylines that Hawkeyes a part of and really cool secrets that are revealed.

There are new relationships, and relationships that existed are deepening and shifting and changing.

Its really, really quite a fun universe to be in.

So Im very excited and very happy with what we achieved on this one.

Do we see a little bit of his personal life in this one, would you say?

I should read that.

It would be interesting.

Id love to see that.

Yeah, youll see theres some stuff revealed.

Youll see some stuff.

Kill the Messengeris out this Friday (October 10).

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