‘Captain America 3’ Cast: Hawkeye Versus Captain America! Deadly Confrontation Results In Steve Rogers Knocking Out Clint Barton! Why Was It Cut From ‘The Winter Soldier?’

By now, it has been teased so often that Hawkeye will be in "Captain America 3" it has started to raise some doubts. The directors of "Captain America 3" reveal that Jeremy Renner's character would have had a prominent scene in the movie, but did not make the final cut.

There are many reasons to consider cutting off a scene even if it seems to work so well in the script. Apparently, Hawkeye's scene got victimized because of the realities of filmmaking.

Co-director Joe Russo shared to Screenrant the scene that we didn't get to see:

"What it was going to be, we were trying to complicate the relationship between Cap and his S.H.I.E.L.D agent friends. If Hawkeye got a call from S.H.I.E.L.D saying Captain America is a fugitive, would he listen to that call or not listen to that call? That sequence actually was heartbreaking for us to cut it. I think it ultimately might have been a conflict with Renner's schedule. But there was a great sequence where Hawkeye was chasing Cap through Washington D.C. there was an awesome sequence where they confronted each other in a ravine on the outskirts of D.C. and Hawkeye was shooting a series of arrows closing in on Cap, Cap closing in on him. And then Cap took him down and he realized for the first time that Hawkeye was trying to trick S.H.I.E.L.D, where he whispered something into Cap's ear that Cap had a tracker on his suit and to punch Hawkeye to make it look real, because there was a Quinjet hovering above where they were watching the feedback back at S.H.I.E.L.D.

So it was a cool sequence. But look, there's a million iterations of films, and especially when dealing with Marvel movies where characters can come in or come out during the creative process. And you keep working and working like a Rubik's Cube till you find the right configuration where everything lines up. So even though we lost that sequence, I think we may have streamlined the movie and made it a little bit more propulsive."

The film still did well even without that sequence, and apparently they will include Hawkeye in the next chapter to make it up. Jeremy Renner actually headlines another action franchise (The Bourne franchise which he got from Matt Damon) so he's not exactly an actor to be kept waiting.

Considering the excellent work with "The Winter Soldier" we can expect more with "Captain America 3" which will be shown on May 6, 2016.