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Hawkeye songwriters want to make a full Marvel musical

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The primary episode of Marvel’s Hawkeye sequence on Disney+ gave us an exquisite present — a snippet of a Marvel musical rendition of the Battle of New York. Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) is seen attending a efficiency of Rogers: The Musical together with his three youngsters earlier than he has to go away. Whereas we solely hear one track (Save the Metropolis) from the fictional Marvel musical, it was penned by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the songwriting duo behind Hairspray, Smash, and Mary Poppins Returns.

Whereas talking with Entertainment Weekly, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman stated that their first concept put the give attention to common New Yorkers witnessing the battle, however the pair quickly determined that Barton ought to be watching a model of one thing he was straight concerned with. Wittman stated that “It’s necessary for the Hawkeye character to observe that occasion that was such a seminal a part of his life and really feel barely uncomfortable like, ‘what have they achieved to my world?’” Shaiman added, “It was a superb line to stroll. We knew that we needed to write a great track, an entertaining track, one thing you’d hopefully get pleasure from, but it surely additionally needed to make Clint roll his eyes and suppose, ‘what is that this?’

Though we solely received a style of it in Hawkeye, a full-blown Marvel musical is one thing Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman would undoubtedly be down for. “In fact!” Wittman stated. “Get folks to start out calling Kevin on the cellphone and inform him.” Shaiman added that they need to most likely transfer quick in the event that they wish to make it occur as a result of he bets that “persons are already writing it on TikTok.

There are one million issues that you would create in a Marvel musical, particularly with Steve Rogers. The truth that he exists within the ’40s as nicely would enable us to jot down a complete lot of various genres, so the entire Marvel story would happen over a long time. It could be a thrill to get to try this. However for now we’re simply extraordinarily enthusiastic about the best way the present got here out.

The primary three episodes of Hawkeye are actually streaming on Disney+ and you’ll try a assessment from our personal Alex Maidy right here.

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