Hailee Steinfeld Being Eyed as Kate Bishop in Disney+’s ‘Hawkeye’ Series

After helping to establish the soft reboot of the Transformers franchise in Bumblebee, singer-actress Hailee Steinfeld is ready to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kate Bishop in Disney+’s upcoming Hawkeye solo TV series.

According to Variety, the Bumblebee star is in talks to join the cast of the Jeremy Renner-fronted series. Bishop was first introduced in the MCU when Clint Barton (Renner) had to test the time travel capabilities of the quantum realm by going back to where he was with his family before the Snap. In the comics, Bishop is the daughter of Hawkeye, ultimately inheriting the superhero mantle after Clint retired. Bishop is also a member of the Young Avengers team.

Disney is dead set on building a coherent narrative for the Marvel shows coming to Disney+ starting November 12. Similar to how Kevin Feige crafted the entire timeline of the MCU, it looks like the TV adaptations of its key characters will expand the stories of our favorite heroes especially after Thanos’ Snap caused time to branch out into different realities.

Steinfeld traces her major acting roots back to the Coen brothers remake of True Grit in 2010 where she also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She went on to star in a few other successful films such as The Edge of Seventeen, Pitch Perfect, Bumblebee, and most recently, the critically acclaimed Sony animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Meanwhile, Steinfeld music career continues to enjoy the sparkle of the spotlight with the songs “Love Myself,” “Most Girls,” the Zedd and Grey collab bop “Starving,” and another recent collaboration with Florida Georgia Line, “Let Me Go.”

The Hawkeye series has no set release date yet, as it joins fellow MCU alums in their respective solo shows—Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and WandaVision. Other Marvel superheroes debuting as new TV shows include Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, and She-Hulk. But the studio has locked down a six to eight-episode order for the upcoming MCU series.