Overview
- Guest says he was recruited the week before Thanksgiving 2020 to overhaul six episodes with filming in New York set to start in about a week and a half.
- He cites immediate fixes to character dynamics and structure, including that Kate Bishop read too young and her rapport with Clint Barton was not working.
- The rewrite was an around-the-clock, collaborative push with producers Trinh Tran and Brad Winterbaum rather than a solo pass.
- Guest adds that Wonder Man nearly got scrapped during the 2023 strikes after early audience tests confused viewers, but producers fought to keep it alive and the show is slated for 2026.
- The accounts align with Marvel shifting away from shooting without locked scripts toward a tighter, showrunner-driven TV model, with any Hawkeye season two talk still unofficial.