The word “miracle” gets thrown around a lot. But it truly is miraculous to see the recovery of Jeremy Renner after being literally crushed by a snow plow just a year-and-a-half ago. Not only did he survive, but it seems as if he’s actually thriving—returning to work on “Mayor of Kingstown” Season 3 and an upcoming role in Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” However, according to Renner, there are some limits to his capabilities right now.

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Released in 2012, “The Bourne Legacy” was an obvious attempt to have Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross take over for Jason Bourne as the center of the franchise. However, that new future was fairly quickly dashed when Matt Damon returned to the Bourne role for the film, “Jason Bourne.” But according to Renner, that wasn’t always the case. In fact, he tried to have a team-up film.

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As we just outlined, Jeremy Renner is past the road to recovery despite a life-threatening freak accident in early 2023 that nearly killed him. Just over a year later, Renner was back at it, filming season three of the Taylor Sheridan crime series, “Mayor Of Kingtown,” which debuted this past Sunday at Paramount+. Renner’s been out there doing press for the film, obviously talking about his harrowing accident, his brush with death, his recovery, and more.

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Actor Jeremy Renner really went through it, obviously in early 2023. Coming close with a brush with death in a freak snowplow accident, almost less than a year later, he was back at work filming season three of the Taylor Sheridan crime series, “Mayor Of Kingtown.” Now that ‘Kingstown’ has debuted on Paramount+ this past Sunday, Renner has been doing the press rounds discussing his survival, the show, and so much more.

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It’s not crazy to say the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t reached “Avengers: Endgame” heights over the past five years. Phases 4 and 5 have largely been seen as letdowns. So, it’s not all that shocking that fans are clamoring to know if Marvel Studios will attempt to bring back some of the OG Avengers to help steer the ship. Well, two of the OGs are seemingly open to it happening.

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Another day, another couple of castings for Rian Johnson‘s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” Deadline reports that Jeremy Renner is the latest to join the expanding ensemble cast, as are Glenn Close and Mila Kunis, whose casting broke late yesterday afternoon. But Renner is the major focus of the cast list now. “Wake Up Dead Man” is the actor’s first major film project since his near-fatal January 2023 snowplow accident, and cements that his career comeback is now in full swing.

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Jeremy Renner begins his career comeback this weekend with the premiere of “Mayor Of Kingstown” Season 3 on Paramount+. But what else does the future hold for an actor on the upswing after his near-fatal snowplow accident? Maybe a return to some old franchises, like “Mission: Impossible“?

READ MORE: ‘Mayor Of Kingstown’ Trailer: Jeremy Renner Returns For A Third Season Of His Prison/Crime Series On June 2

Variety reports (via Collider) that in a new interview, Renner confirmed he won’t rule out a return for his “M:I” character William Brandt.  

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It’s wild to think that Jeremy Renner was facing life-threatening injuries in January 2023 following his snowplow accident. Yet, about a year later, he was on the set of his crime and prison industrial complex series, “Mayor Of Kingstown,” shooting a third season. And that third season is almost upon us as Paramount+ revealed the full official trailer for “Mayor of Kingstown” S3 today. The series returns and premieres Sunday, June 2, in the U.S.

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Despite a near-fatal brush with death in the early new year of 2023, Jeremy Renner is back at it in the acting game, almost as if nothing ever happened. Miraculously healthy, healed, and back to work in early 2024, Renner is back for a third season of his Paramount+ series, “Mayor Of Kingstown,” about a power broker family whose main business is incarceration. Created by Paramount+’s own power broker, Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Yellowstone” and many of the streaming channels’ top series, after a year break, “Mayor Of Kingstown” returns in June of this year.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been just over a year since we learned of Jeremy Renner’s near-fatal accident in January 2023. If you don’t remember, Renner was run over by a snow plow after pushing his family member out of the way. He was nearly killed with dozens of broken bones and tons of other serious injuries. But a year later, he’s back and ready to put on his superhero suit, if needed. 

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Everyone loves a good what-if, right? Let’s go back down memory lane for a second. Once upon a time, Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass abandoned the ‘Jason Bourne,’ franchise after being unable to nail a 4th ‘Jason Bourne’ script (they tried). In the gap, original ‘Bourne’ writer Tony Gilroy was asked to pitch a take, and that eventually became “The Bourne Legacy” (2012), which he directed starring Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, another Treadstone-like agent out there in the greater ‘Jason Bourne’ universe.

Continue reading Justin Lin Says His Unmade ‘Bourne 5’ With Jeremy Renner Likely Wouldn’t Have Featured Matt Damon at The Playlist.

In January, it was thought actor Oscar-nominee Jeremy Renner might possibly die. The “Avengers” actor suffered blunt chest trauma and massive orthopedic injuries after he was crushed by a snowplow in an accident, which weighed at least 14,330 pounds. Renner miraculously recovered, but it was rumored or thought that he may never act again. Case in point. Paramount+ today announced that Renner will return as the star for the third season of the drama series “Mayor Of Kingstown.

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On New Year’s Day, it was reported that Jeremy Renner was in critical condition after a snow plow accident. Eventually, we’d learn that a huge Snowcat ran over Renner, crushing his body and breaking numerous bones. Since then, we’ve seen peeks into his recovery, but nothing major. However, next week, Diane Sawyer airs an interview she had with Renner where he goes through the events of that day and his recovery in great detail.

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Disney+ has a lot of docu-series show that are nice, pleasant, family-oriented, inspirational, etc., but since we try and focus on narrative, look, we just don’t have time or inclination to cover them all. But the new series, “Rennervations,” from and starring two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner and the way he gives back to his local communities seems incredibly timely.

READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2023

Known for “The Hurt Locker,” “The Town” (the two films he’s Oscar-nominated for), “Mayor Of Kingstown,” and, of course, his work as a Marvel superhero,  Renner obviously was seriously injured around New Year’s by doing the very thing the series is about: trying to help people and serve his community.

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The reductive take on Taylor Sheridan-made media— and perhaps particularly, the gritty and rugged Paramount+ series “Mayor Of Kingstown” (co-created with Hugh Dillon, one of the series co-stars)— is that it’s macho, maybe even toxically masculine; narratives about aggressive men that feel they must defend their fiefdoms, no matter the size, no matter the cost. In that sense, Sheridan’s work feels so innately American, and maybe that’s why he gets labeled as a Red State creator so often, given so many of his gruff characters seem to have a “don’t tread on me” philosophy of life (think the beautiful loser criminals of “Hell or Highwater”).

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Honestly, if it wasn’t for Taylor Sheridan, you have to wonder what would happen to Paramount+. Not only is Sheridan responsible for “Yellowstone,” which has its previous seasons on the streaming platform, but he makes a number of Paramount+ exclusive shows that are driving all sorts of business to the service, including the series “Mayor of Kingstown.”

READ MORE: ‘Mayor Of Kingstown’ TV Review: Just Another Hyper-Masculine Crime Series From Taylor Sheridan

As seen in the teaser for Season 2 of “Mayor of Kingstown,” the new season picks up where the last left off as the series looks at the privatized prison business and what might happen after massive riots create chaos.

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For a few years now, Jeremy Renner has carved a niche for himself as a big-budget everyman. Whether he is a character in a billion dollar superhero franchise or the leading man in the hot new Taylor Sheridan project, Renner brings a kind of everyday stardom to the roles that he tackles. So when crafting a story about one of the greatest white collar crimes of our generation, who better to play the journalist who brings the whole thing down than our prevailing blue collar hero?

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It’s Taylor Sheridan’s world, and you’re just living in it if you’re on Paramount+. The writer/director/showrunner’s empire keeps continuing to grow. Sheridan has three shows on Paramount+, the huge hit, “Yellowstone,” its post-Civil-War era spin-off, “1883,” and the prison industrial complex series, “Mayor of Kingstown,” starring Jeremy Renner. Created by Sheridan and actor Hugh Dillon, who also had a role on “Yellowstone” and appeared on ‘Kingstown,’ during Paramount’s TCA panel today, the TV streaming service announced that “Mayor Of Kingstown” has been renewed for a second season.

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Hawkeye has a bit of a stigma in comics and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’s the dude that shoots arrows. He’s not a god. He’s not a super-soldier. And he doesn’t have a billion-dollar suit of armor protecting him. He has three kids, a wife, and a quiver of trick arrows. That’s all. Well, he also has a new Disney+ TV series, aptly titled “Hawkeye.” And in this episode of The Playlist Podcast, we got a chance to speak with Rhys Thomas, one of the directors and executive producers of “Hawkeye,” to talk about what makes the archer such a great MCU character. 

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“Hawkeye,” the new Disney+ streaming series, fills a void in the Marvel Cinematic Universe much like its title character does in the Avengers. It doesn’t have any flashy, Earth-shattering concepts (unlike “Loki,” “What If?” or the upcoming “Spider-Man: No Way Home”). This isn’t a series that will forever change how you think of the MCU (like “Eternals”). It’s the TV show equivalent of a guy with arrows fighting against an alien invasion—it tries its best and only succeeds based solely on its likeability and heart. 

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After “Avengers: Endgame,” it appeared that many of the elder statesmen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be taking a backseat to let the new heroes gain the spotlight. Robert Downey, Jr. is gone. Chris Evans is most likely done as Captain America. And Scarlett Johansson had her “Black Widow” swansong. But Jeremy Renner isn’t going anywhere. That is, as long as Marvel Studios will keep him around as Hawkeye.

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Disney+ Day is upon us. Along with the streaming premieres of “Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings” and “Jungle Cruise,” and season two of “The World According To Jeff Goldblum,” the celebration also includes updates on many upcoming Marvel and Star Wars series.  

READ MORE: ‘Hawkeye’ Will Explore The Character’s Ronin “Darkness” In Marvel Studios’ Upcoming Series

Phase 4 is underway on the Marvel front, with three films and four TV shows already released.

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Taylor Sheridan makes films and shows about hyper-masculine dudes. Projects like “Wind River” and “Yellowstone” exist in an old-fashioned atmosphere in which every man has a firearm on his belt, a woman who has betrayed him, and a grievance in his heart. It has led to some criticisms of toxic masculinity and even misogyny, and the creator leans hard into these accusations with the new Paramount+ series “Mayor of Kingstown.”

The first two episodes screened for press (both written by Sheridan) portray a violent, aggressive corner of the country in which there are no marked exits for anybody.

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Streaming platforms try and coax major creators on their platforms with a lot of money and carte-blanche creative freedom. That’s how Paramount and Paramount+ have hooked writer, creator, director, producer Taylor Sheridan, the auteur of the Midwest. After a string of massively successful movies he wrote (“Sicario,” the Academy Award-nominated “Hell or High Water”), Sheridan transitioned to directing (“Wind River”), before creating his own massively successful franchise on Paramount+, the Emmy-nominated “Yellowstone” with Kevin Costner and a rich cast of character actors.

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Is the excitement starting to wane for those Marvel Studios-produced Disney+ series, yet? With “WandaVision” kicking things off in January with a huge bang, followed shortly by “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” debuting the new Captain America, it seemed like the MCU streaming debut was going to be just as huge as the feature films. Then, while “Loki” seemed like a hit for a lot of fans, that series didn’t have the same cultural impact as the previous two, and “What If?

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