Shortly before the release of Marvel’s The Avengers, Wired Magazine released an article critical of Jeremy Renner.Well, more specifically, critical of his archery form. A professional archery coach took a look at all the available footage from the film and determined that the special needs of filming archery in a superhero film hadn’t been well-served by Renner from a technical point of view.ComicBook.com mentioned this article at the time, and it seemed that Marvel had a little fun with it, too, as early covers for Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Eisner-winning Hawkeye monthly featured covers that were mock-ups of instructional posters. One of those posters, in fact, seems to be a real poster that exists in the world (you know–minus the Hawkeye part), as Carla Companion, a New Hampshire-based archery coach (and beer blogger) and friend of the site, noted that she’s pretty sure she owns the original somewhere.Around the time Renner was taking his lumps, it was explained that he had a difficult time simulating good form because the arrows were almost never in his hand, and sometimes even the bowstring was digital, for safety reasons.That’s because its dangerous to shoot off an arrow in a crowded set, as Arrow star Stephen Amell explains in the interview below.
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