Jeremy Renner, the guy who's going to play Bill Caswell in an upcoming movie that started with a Jalopnik story by Sam Smith, was attacked in Thailand with an axe that had a blade made out of a friggin' rotor.

We knew this was coming a year ago, but it's still pretty amazing seeing it actually happen. We can now officially announce that Bill Caswell, Jalopnik's very own $500 Craigslist rally car driver, is getting a Jeremy Renner-produced movie — called "Slingshot" — made about the exclusive story first reported on these…

Hollywood Reporter reports that two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner of Hurt Locker fame has just tapped himself to play the lead role in an upcoming biopic of Steve McQueen.