Vern Predicts: Jeremy Renner

Me on Jeremy Renner in my HURT LOCKER review last July:

I think he’ll get an Oscar nomination and a bunch of big roles that hopefully don’t waste his talent too much. In fact I’m gonna go ahead and predict that they’ll give him one of the big comic book roles. We can have Chopper as Hulk, Patrick Bateman as Batman and Jeffrey Dahmer as Captain America.

Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, today:

Jeremy Renner is in final negotiations to join “The Avengers,” Marvel Studios’ big-screen take on its superhero team that’s being directed by Joss Whedon.

Renner will play the bow-and-arrow-carrying hero Hawkeye, who, while not one of the initial members of the team when it was created in the 1960s, became an integral member soon after when the misguided villain switched sides.

So he won’t be playing Captain America, but they’ll at least be co-workers. Not a bullseye for me, but not a bad shot, huh?

Vern Predicts

This entry was posted on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 11:53 am and is filed under Blog Post (short for weblog). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Previous Post
« Yippee Ki Yay contest winners

Next Post
Scanners III: The Takeover »

13 Responses to “Vern Predicts: Jeremy Renner”

Daniel Strange
June 4th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

You definitely hit the target…with an ARROW!!!

(I’ll get my coat.)

I look forward to the next installment of “Vern Predicts.”
Jareth Cutestory
June 4th, 2010 at 1:13 pm

Didn’t you once predict that one day our heads would all be wired up to permanent cell phones like Billy Dee Williams’ manservant in STAR WARS? That’s one I hope never happens.
Namey McNamerson
June 4th, 2010 at 1:37 pm

Hawkeye is a pretty awesome character so I’m glad to see him played by a talented actor. Hopefully, for the character and Renner’s sake he gets a ton of screentime
dieselboy
June 4th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

God casting there. I also read that the guy who played Sawyer on Lost is in talks to play a major Marvel character. Anyone got any theories on who he might play?
mattfoster
June 4th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

Dude, I predicted way back when that Jeremy Renner was going to be a star after seeing National Lampoon’s Senior Trip… and while it took a good 15 years for that prediction to be right, I still called that motherfucker.

Dag’s wins.
CrustaceanHate
June 4th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

I notice the white radiating lines radiating from your “Vern Predicts” logo. Could this be the result of THE SECRET?
CC
June 4th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Renner is an incredibly solid, friendly, nice guy and is gonna knock everybody out in the forthcoming THE TOWN. Glad to see he’s on a roll. He’s gonna be a terrific Clint Barton / Hawkeye!
edc
June 4th, 2010 at 9:52 pm

see? this is just like I said in seagal predicts:
seagal is sending vern messages through his movies which allow vern to understand the Buddha nature.

outlaw and the lama, coming soon.
Jot
June 5th, 2010 at 3:38 am

Cool for him, glad he is getting the breaks. Thought he was the best thing in SWAT, even though he vanished for big chunks of it and although i am not a huge fan of the Hurt Locker, again he ran away with the show.

Vern since your predictions seem to be coming true, who will win the world cup ?
anthony
June 5th, 2010 at 8:35 am

As a funny book nerd, I highly approve of this casting. Ever since that scene in Dahmer where he pins the cop to the wall with a bow and arrow I knew he was special. Wait, that didn’t happen. Sigh…
Maybe we can start sending Vern funnybooks so he can predict who will play the characters? Then we might always get good casting like Renner…
Wolfgang
June 5th, 2010 at 1:41 pm

The last time I saw Renner his face was in transition. He was going through that transformation where you stop being recognizable from your high school photo and start looking like the new ‘old you’ that will be your you until the end of your days.

Matt Damon is also currently shifting too. I could see him going either way. He could either become some guy who gets cooler looking as he gets lines on his face like Bruce Willis, or he could become one of those Ryan O’Neil guys who just gets saggy and fat.
caruso_stalker217
June 6th, 2010 at 6:31 pm

I think Damon will make it into his fifties relatively unchanged and then just fucking Val Kilmer overnight.
Mouth
June 23rd, 2014 at 6:25 pm

Jeremy Renner has never before really impressed me, or made much of any impression on my senses or in my memory, but I can’t front, his role in the recent episode of that comically disturbingly overrated FX show Louie, “In The Woods,” was kinda spectacular.

His performance was some hardcore, grimy, badass, sleazy, menacing, funny-but-not-funny, great shit. He plays a dirtbag drug dealer who happens to represent both a profitable short-term opportunity and a cathartic mirror/glimpse of one possible dead-end future for 13 year old Louie. He’s both a total loser and a successful smalltime entrepreneurial businessman, a wise aphorism-spouting role model *and* an example of exactly whose life you never want to emulate.

I actually despise that show, despite seeing every episode due to wanting to understand the zeitgeist and being in the same room with someone who dvr’d it etc., but that “In The Woods” episode was okay and Renner’s scenes are fucking aces for serious. You don’t need to see (and you fucking shouldn’t) any of the other episodes to “get” it, so I recommend y’all RennerHeads check your on-demand options or the FX channel schedule for when they re-air it.

Hey bud, thanks for reading.
Don't feel obligated, but here are some
WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHIT OUT OF VERN & OUTLAWVERN.COM
if that's your thing:
1. Patreon

Toss me a couple bucks a month, support the good shit, also get access to a bunch of exclusive writing. This is my primary source of writing money that has allowed me to cut down to part time at the day job. Thank you!
2. Buy my books from your local bookseller or somebody

click here for my Amazon author page
(NOTE: My ten year contract has passed on the Titan books, so I don't get residuals on them like I do WORM ON A HOOK and NIKETOWN, but I would love for you to read them because I'm proud of them)
EXTRA CREDIT: Review them on Amazon! That would really help me out. Unless you didn't like them, in which case forget I said anything.
3. If you ever buy from Amazon, go through my links or search engines

(you pay the same amount you were gonna pay anyway they cut me a little slice)
I also have an Amazon UK one:

(I can't get the search box widget to work anymore, so click on MOONWALKER and then search for what you want.)
4. My exciting line of fashion and leisure products

(I get a couple bucks per item, you get a cool t-shirt, mug or lifestyle item)
5. Spread the word

Tell your friends about my reviews and my books and everything. Only cool people though please, we don't need a bunch of suckers and/or chumps around here.
THANKS EVERYBODY. YOUR FRIEND, VERN

* * * *
Recent commentary and jibber-jabber
- Adam C on Rosemary’s Baby: “Hey, don’t sell your mom (or Meryl Streep) short! My mom was amazing in many ways but she also a…” Nov 4, 18:39
- Skani on Demons: “Thanks, Adam. I have seen PROWLER at least two or three times in recent years, and I like it. I…” Nov 4, 14:27
- Dreadguacamole on Azrael: “Yeah, this is a good one. I really liked how the lack of dialog doesn’t really mean anything beyond… well,…” Nov 4, 10:51
- VERN on Rosemary’s Baby: “Your mom sounds amazing. Mine was just into Meryl Streep movies. Thanks for sharing that, Adam, it’s beautiful. She seems…” Nov 4, 07:16
- Adam C aka TaumpyTearrs on Rosemary’s Baby: “I was going to skip this review (because I haven’t seen the movie) until I saw the stuff about your…” Nov 4, 00:58
- Adam C aka TaumpyTearrs on Demons: “Skani- Visiting Hours- leans more suspense/thriller than straight slasher, but I found it very effective and Michael Goddamn Ironside is…” Nov 3, 21:13
- Skani on Demons: “Ok, SKINNED ALIVE was not my cup of tea, but it definitely had moxie and some very inspired elements. The…” Nov 3, 18:32
- Kyle on Suspiria (1977): “For anyone interested Vice Press Home Video has two different customized VHS options for Suspiria. I ordered an Evil Dead…” Nov 3, 14:22
- Mr. Majestyk on Demons: “Yeah, that’s the one. I fucked it up last time too.” Nov 3, 12:33
- Skani on Demons: “Whoa. Okay, I’ll try SKINNED ALIVE (looks like it’s on Prime as SKINNED DEEP). Thanks!” Nov 3, 12:18
- Mr. Majestyk on Demons: “Here’s a re-post of the list I made of recommendations for the SLASHER SEARCH: BLOOD NIGHT: Fairly boilerplate millenial slasher,…” Nov 3, 10:56
- Skani on Demons: “Adam, read your Letterboxd we’re not that far apart on TV GLOW. In particular, I your last paragraph resonates. I…” Nov 3, 05:20
- Mr. Majestyk on Demons: “BRING IT ON: CHEER OR DIE was moderately amusing. It felt like what it was: a slasher movie for tween…” Nov 3, 04:30
- Adam C aka TaumpyTearrs on Demons: “Damn Majestyk that is a crazy list! Was Bring It On: Cheer or Die actually amusing at all? I randomly…” Nov 2, 21:37
- Mr. Majestyk on Demons: “My final list, in the order I watched them in: IN A VIOLENT NATURE LOOP TRACK ROTTENTAIL SPIRIT HALLOWEEN DEER…” Nov 2, 15:20
Recent Commented on Posts
Most Comments
- True Lies (30th anniversary revisit) - 74 comments
- Alien: Romulus - 58 comments
- The Shadow (30th anniversary revisit) - 49 comments
- In a Violent Nature - 45 comments
- Rebel Ridge - 45 comments
- The Crow (2024) - 43 comments
- Deadpool & Wolverine - 42 comments
- Forrest Gump - 40 comments
- Airheads - 40 comments
- Programming note - 40 comments