After playing a Marvel superhero, Jeremy Renner is taking on a completely different type of crime fighter in Kill the Messenger. Starring as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb, Jeremy Renner takes on a crusade to track the crack epidemic in America and its very shady origins, which has ties to the CIA. The drama follows Gary's daunting task of investigating the U.S.'s war on drugs, despite threats from both drug kingpins and CIA operatives. We have 5 new photos of Jeremy Renner in action, as he hits the streets looking for answers.

Kill the Messenger is part of Focus Features fall lineup, which also includes the stop-motion animated adventure The Boxtrolls and the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. - and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.