Overview
- Writer Andrew Guest says he was hired around Thanksgiving 2020 and given six completed episodes to overhaul with filming in New York about a week and a half away.
- He reports that Kate Bishop was written too young, the Renner–Steinfeld dynamic wasn’t working, and excess twists cluttered the story, prompting an around-the-clock rewrite with producers Trinh Tran and Brad Winterbaum.
- Guest’s Hawkeye work led to his role as head writer on Wonder Man, which he says nearly got scrapped during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes after early test screenings confused audiences.
- He adds that Wonder Man survived multiple internal reviews, was reframed in marketing rather than retooled, and is now slated to arrive in 2026.
- Coverage ties Hawkeye’s scramble to Marvel abandoning a “fix-it-in-post” approach for Disney+ shows, with the studio shifting to stronger showrunning practices as projects like Daredevil: Born Again underwent mid-course corrections.