Just yesterday, there was official/unofficial (since Marvel has yet to make a formal announcement) confirmation of Hailee Steinfeld's place alongside Jeremy Renner in the cast of the Hawkeye Marvel series for Disney+. Today we have more cast announcements, though via Variety's sources rather than any actual MCU channel. The likes of Florence Pugh, Vera Farmiga, Fra Fee, Tony Dalton, Alaqua Cox and Zahn McClarnon are all aboard.
In purely Marvel terms, Pugh is the most exciting, since this represents her bringing the Yelena Belova character, sister of Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff, who will appear first in Black Widow, currently due to arrive in May next year.
Farmiga will play Eleanor Bishop, mother to Steinfeld's Kate, while Fee is on as a character called Kazi, which the trade mag guesses means that he'll be Kazimierz Kazimierczak, AKA a villain known as Clown. Also on the guess list? Better Call Saul veteran Dalton's Jack Duquesne, speculated as Jacques Duquesne, AKA Swordsman.
Cox is Maya Lopez, the real name of Echo, a deaf Native American who has the power of perfectly copying another's movements, making her a tough opponent, while McClarnon is her father William Lopez, AKA Willie "Crazy Horse" Lincoln in the comics.
With Jonathan Igla running the show, the show will, all being well, land on Disney+ next year. WandaVision, the first show to make it out of the MCU/Disney+ stable, lands on 15 January, and you can find details of Empire's WandaVision cover issue here.