New set photos confirm the fact that Hawkeye is set during early 2025, specifically around Chinese New Years (January 29) 2025. In the photo below where we see Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye and Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop petting Lucky the Dog, we see a poster for Chinese New Years saying “Happy New Year 2025”. Because this same poster also says something “of snake”, and the location of the photo, we can assume that this show will be set around January-February 2025.
For a little reminder of where we last left off in the MCU timeline, Avengers: Endgame was set in October 2023. Spider-Man: Far From Home was set in June-July 2024, and as our amazing wiki timeline experts have found that it puts Spider-Man’s end around the 10th of July. We have reason to assume that WandaVision will take place before this (early or late 2024), correct me if I am wrong) as well as The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (late 2023-early 2024). We know this is also most likely the case with the present day setting of Marvel’s Eternals late 2023/early 2024 (Black Widow post May-2016 or anytime in 2017. Shang-Chi is rumored to be set in 2020 or sometime during the in between 2018 and 2023, but we still are not sure. Doctor Strange 2 seems to be set after the third spider-man and it is safe to assume that Thor 4 and Captain Marvel 2 are set after Far From Home). Depending on when Hawkeye, which is now confirmed to have at least some setting around February 2025, releases in late 2021, we know it will deal with a post Far From Home world, maybe post Spider-Man 3 depending on when it’s set. If this releases before the third Spider-Man film, then this will most likely be the furthest we move forward in the MCU timeline since Far From Home if all the other predictions prove correct (WandaVision early 2024, TFAWS late 2023-early 2024, Black Widow 2016-17, Shang-Chi 2020-22, early 2024 correct me if I’m wrong).
So what do you think about this timeline jump? Do you think 2025 is the earliest they should jump for a couple of years to let the timelines catch up to each other? Share your thoughts, theories and questions in the comments below.
