'Avengers 2: Age of Ultron' News: Hawkeye to Get a Better Role in Sequel

Joss Whedon has revealed that Jeremy Renner will get a better role in the upcoming "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

The actor complained about his role in the first film as the hero Hawkeye. While most characters got a chance to develop their relationships, his character was possessed for most of the movie and was left as an afterthought during the major action seasons.

"I prefer [playing the good version of the character], because if we go to the evil part, or hypnotized or whatever the heck you want to call it, it's kind of a vacancy. Not even a bad guy, because there's not really a consciousness to him," said Renner about the role in the first film, according to Classicalite. 

"The interesting part was being guilty about the bad things I did do when I was hypnotized. I think he's already an interesting enough character. To really kind of take away who that character is and just have him be this sort of robot, essentially, and have him be this minion for evil that Loki uses. Again, I could just focus on the task. I was limited, you know what I mean? I was a terminator in a way. So yeah, fun stunts. But is there any sort of emotional content or thought process? No. That doesn't exist in that time [that he's hypnotized]. It happens to be for most of the movie."

Whedon recently revealed that Renner would get a juicier part in the sequel.

"Part of the fun for me, definitely this time around, is writing Hawkeye. He did get possessed pretty early by a bad guy and had to walk around all scowly for most of the movie so now it's nice to actually have the character there and see him interact with the other guys," said the writer-director.

Renner will be seen in the upcoming "American Hustle" as a politician utilizing the mob to help out his constituents. Along the way he meets Christian Bale's Irving Rosenfeld and falls into a trap that could cost him his life and dreams.

"The Avengers: Age of Ultron" will head into pre-production next summer and also features Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader and Chris Evans.