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Jonathan Igla is a writer and producer. He is currently the head writer and executive producer for the Disney+ series Hawkeye. Igla has written and produced for numerous shows, including Mad Men, Pitch, Sorry for Your Loss, Shut Eye, and Bridgerton.
Hawkeye is an American television miniseries created by Jonathan Igla for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Clint Barton / Hawkeye and Kate Bishop / Hawkeye. It is the fifth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the ...
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During the Battle of New York in 2012,[a] a young Kate Bishop is saved from a Chitauri warrior by Clint Barton, but her father Derek is killed in the chaos. Following Derek's funeral, Bishop vows to become a hero to keep her and her mother Eleanorsafe. In the present day, Bishop has become an experienced archer, martial artist, and fencer. She caus...
Development
By April 2019, Marvel Studios was developing a Disney+ series starring Jeremy Renner's Clint Barton / Hawkeye from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, in which Barton would bequeath the mantle of Hawkeye to Kate Bishop. In September 2019, Jonathan Igla was hired as head writer of Hawkeye, and in July 2020, Rhys Thomas was hired to direct three episodes for the series. Igla and Thomas executive produce alongside Marvel Studios' Brad Winderbaum, Trinh Tran, Victoria Alonso, Louis D'Espos...
Writing
Opening the episode with the Battle of New York was part of Igla's pitch since his hiring. Igla conceived the idea wanting to set up the notion of being different points of view, reminiscent to the 2012 Hawkeye comic book run of Matt Fraction and David Aja. In this case, the battle is revisited through a younger Kate Bishop's point of view, which Igla felt that allowed the audience to "jump[ing] back and forth a little bit in time" and see things from different perspectives. He also wanted to...
Casting
The episode stars Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne, Fra Fee as Kazi, Brian d'Arcy James as Derek Bishop, Aleks Paunovic as Ivan, Piotr Adamczyk as Thomas, Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton, Simon Callow as Armand Duquesne III, and Vera Farmiga as Eleanor. Also appearing are Carlos Navarro as Enrique, Ben Sakamoto as Cooper Barton, Ava Russo as Lila Barton, Cade Woodward as Nathaniel Barton, Clara Stack as young Kate Bishop,...
After the episode's release, Marvel announced merchandise inspired by the first two episodes as part of its weekly "Marvel Must Haves" promotion for each episode of the series, including apparel and Funko Pops, including Barton and Bishop with Lucky.
Audience viewership
The viewer tracking application Samba TV reported that the series had the lowest premiere of the live action MCU series to date, with an estimated 1.5 million households checking out the episode in the first five days. This trailed the premieres for Loki (2.5M, 5 days), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1.8M, 3 days), and WandaVision (1.6M, 3 days). According to Nielsen Media Research who measure the number of minutes watched by United States audiences on television sets, Hawkeye was the sec...
Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.30/10, based on 16 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Never Meet Your Heroes" "sets the table for Hawkeye's first season with an introductory episode that puts Hailee Steinfeld front and center." Giving the episode 3 out of 5 stars, Keith Phipps from Vulturesaid the premiere "gets things off to a promising if short-on-fireworks start". Phipps praised the Christmas setting, stat...
"Never Meet Your Heroes" at IMDbEpisode recap at Marvel.comHawkeye is an American TV miniseries that is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Featuring the Marvel Comics characters Clint Barton / Hawkeye and Kate Bishop / Hawkeye, the series was created by Jonathan Igla and was on Disney+ from November 24 to December 22, 2021.
Hawkeye is an American television miniseries created by Jonathan Igla for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Clint Barton / Hawkeye and Kate Bishop / Hawkeye.
Sep 15, 2021 · Hawkeye’s head writer is Jonathan Igla, a veteran of Bridgerton and Sorry for Your Loss. Other writer’s include Katie Mathewson and Tanner Bean.
Nov 25, 2021 · Igla has a writing credit on six episodes of AMC's "Mad Men," and he also worked as a story editor on that series. Given his history with it and the fact that "Hawkeye" takes place in Manhattan ...
