The 'Hawkeye' Series Finds Its Writer in 'Mad Men's Team

Disney+ certainly has a long line-up of shows lined up for its mega launch and one of the most alluring things about that is how all the hugely talked-about Marvel series are scheduled for the streaming service. One of them, of course, is Hawkeye and the show has already found its writer.

According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Igla has been roped in to serve as a writer and executive producer. Igla cut his teeth, or sharpened his arrowhead, as it were, as a writer and executive story editor on Mad Men, the award-winning drama that helped establish AMC as a go-to place for critically acclaimed TV.

Jeremy Renner is due to reprise his titular role as the bow-and-arrow wielding Avengers superhero. The story is due to focus on Clint Barton, a non-superpowered hero, trying to teach another hero with an affinity for the bow, Kate Bishop, how to be a hero with no superpowers.

The series is tentatively set for a fall 2021 debut and is part of Marvel’s Phase Four round of releases. 

Igla’s boarding completes most of the key creative hiring for the Phase Four shows. Malcolm Spellman (Empire) is penning Winter Soldier, with Kari Scogland (The Handmaid’s Tale) directing; WandaVision has Jac Schaeffer (Captain Marvel) as showrunner, and Loki has Michael Waldron (Rick & Morty) writing and exec producing.

In addition to working on Mad Men, Igla was a writer-co-producer on Fox’s short-lived sports drama Pitch and writer-supervising producer on Sorry for Your Loss, Facebook’s drama that starred Elizabeth Olsen.