'You're It!' Jeremy Renner can't be caught in upcoming comedy TAG... as cast debuts first trailer on The Ellen Show
He's known for being an action man on the big screen.
So it's not surprising that even when it comes to a comedy, Jeremy Renner can't be beat.
The actor, 47, stars with Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson in the story about a group of friends who every May, reunite for an elaborate game of tag.
The four appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday to talk about the film and unveil the first look trailer.
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First look: Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Hannibal Buress and Ed Helms joined Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime chat show Tuesday to promote their upcoming big screen comedy Tag
Plot: 'Tag is a movie about a group of friends who started playing tag in elementary school and they kept playing into their older years... and we made a movie about it,' Helms explained
The comedy is based on an article published in the Wall Street Journal in 2013.
'Tag is a movie about a group of friends - and it's a true story - who started playing tag in elementary school and they kept playing into their older years, their forties.... and we made a movie about it,' Helms explained.
The first trailer for the film starts with Helms's character trying unsuccessfully to tag Renner at his wedding just after he finishes exchanging vows with his beautiful bride.
The trailer opens with Renner getting married.....
.....And just as he is about to kiss his bride.....
....Helms sprints up the aisle and launches himself at the couple in a vain attempt to tag Renner as 'It'
The no-holds barred game then continues in a madcap flurry of stunts and gags with the battle cry 'You're It!'
Renner's character, it turns out, is seemingly untouchable, and always manages to escape being tagged.
So now it's up to the others to go to whatever lengths necessary to make him 'It'.
The no-holds barred game then continues in a madcap flurry of stunts and gags with the battle cry 'You're It!'
The movie is slated for a June 15 release and also stars Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Rashida Jones and Leslie Bibb.
Renner's character, it turns out, is seemingly untouchable, and always manages to escape being tagged
So now it's up to the others to go to whatever lengths necessary to make him 'It'.
But he's quite nimble on his feet and has a range of ways of heading off his pursuers at the pass
The intensity did lead to some injuries, acknowledged Hamm.
'When you have some forty-year-old people running around doing anything, you lose your breath real quick and you might just hurt something,' the Mad Men star said.
Hamm then pointed out that Renner managed to break both his arms on the second day of filming.
Helms quipped that it had taken a comedy to cause damage to the Avengers star.
The intensity did lead to some injuries, acknowledged Hamm, telling Ellen that Renner managed to break both his arms on day two of filming
Helms quipped that it had taken a comedy to cause damage to the Avengers and Hurt Locker star
Back in June, Renner had posted a photo to his Instagram showing him with splints on both arms following the on set incident.
He hurt his right elbow and his left wrist but still managed to do a second take before seeking treatment.
'I didn’t actually know I broke anything. It felt like I got dead-armed or something. So I did it again and I realized, yeah, this is kind of hurting, I need to go to the hospital,' he told USA Today in August.
'They said, ‘Yeah, that’s broken and that’s broken.’ And then I went back to work after lunch and just continued.'
Back in June, Renner, 47, had shared this photo to his Instagram showing him with splints on both arms following the on set incident
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