Hawkeye Producer Would Love to Make a Musical for Marvel

Hawkeye producer Trinh Tran says that it would be incredible to make a musical for Marvel one day. Hawkeye is the latest Disney+ live-action series to come from Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The series follows skilled archer Clint Barton after retiring from the Avengers and partially losing his hearing, trying to have a nice Christmas vacation with his family. Instead, he ends up getting sucked into the criminal underbelly of New York City and reluctantly mentoring fan-turned-protegé Kate Bishop, played by Hailee Steinfeld. The first two episodes of Hawkeye began streaming on the service last Wednesday, November 24.

The premiere episode of Hawkeye featured Clint attending a performance of the Broadway show Rogers: The Musical, telling the story of Captain America with plenty of razzle-dazzle but not a lot of historical accuracies. The episode features a full performance of the song "Save the City," a musical theater pastiche which was written by Hairspray creators Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who also created the songs for the fictional musical Bombshell in the NBC series Smash. Combining the inspirational vibe of Hamilton with the disastrous production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the overzealous Rogers: The Musical is just one of the new wrinkles Hawkeye adds to the MCU.

Speaking with The Reel Rejects, producer Trinh Tran expressed interest in one day creating a full-length musical for Marvel. She explained how the scene from Rogers: The Musical snowballed out of a joke in the writers' room. It was originally only supposed to be a billboard seen in the background, but it expanded into a full-tilt production number. Given how that moment came to be, Tran would love to work on a Marvel musical.

I'd love to make a musical one day for Marvel, right? Who wouldn't? Rogers: The Musical started out as an idea in the backdrop as we were in the writers' room. It wasn't anything that [Clint Barton] was gonna go and attend an event, it was just sort of, “We'll see billboards of it. How fun would it be if we picked an instance in the past that the Avengers have experienced and do a musical about that?”

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Although Rogers: The Musical was deliberately designed to straddle the line between fun and terrible, the cast performing it was certainly full of talented artists. Several of the cast members have previously appeared in Disney Broadway shows, including Harris Turner (Hulk), who was in Frozen, and Nico DeJesus (Ant-Man), who appeared in Newsies. The rest of the cast is filled out by Jordan Chin (Loki), Aaron Nedrick (Iron Man), Avery Gillham (Hawkeye), Meghan Manning (Black Widow), Jason Scott McDonald (Thor), and Tom Feeney (Captain America).

Considering that Hawkeye, while not the first Marvel project to feature Christmas, is certainly the first that feels like a "Christmas movie," it's completely possible that Marvel would be willing to bend their formula even further for a musical one of these days. It certainly wouldn't fit in with the main thread of the MCU, considering how much those films rely on realism in bringing their comic book characters to life. However, a Disney+ one-off similar to the animated series What If...?, or even a legitimate stage show recorded like Hamilton, could definitely explore what an MCU musical would look like.

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Source: The Reel Rejects