After making his return to the television space last year for the first time since his snowplow accident with Mayor of Kingstown Season 3, Jeremy Renner is months away from appearing in his first movie since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame (minus a voice cameo in Black Widow). Renner is contributing to the 2025 movies schedule by starring in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, i.e. Knives Out 3. However, he only agreed to do this Netflix subscription-exclusive feature for one reason, and it had to do with him reevaluating his professional life following the accident.
Following his physical recovery after nearly dying from the snowplow that ran over him on January 1, 2023, Renner decided that he wouldn’t take on a project if it didn’t line up with his family priorities. Luckily for him, Wake Up Dead Man filled that criteria, as he informed Empire while promoting his book My Next Breath:
