From The Avengers to Mad Max? Jeremy Renner almost nabbed the main Fury Road role
One of the biggest names that were floated around for the role of Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road was that of Jeremy Renner. Could the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Hawkeye have brought something different to the iconic character?We've said it before, but Fury Road's path to the big screen was full of problems and huge setbacks. As a direct result, the project changed a lot over the years, with actors like Heath Ledger being almost officially attached in the early 2000s and stars like Uma Thurman circling the unique role of Furiosa near the definitive production window.All these tidbits of information have emerged over the years, but 2020 brought us an especially juicy oral history of the movie published on The New York Times (via Syfy), through which we learned from producer Doug Mitchell and some of the actors involved of more names they'd been looking at in the lead-up to the 2012 shoot. Read more
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