Jeremy Renner = the new Matt Damon/Tom Cruise in Bourne Legacy and Mission Impossible

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Renner, Norton and Bond's wife Rachel Weisz; pretty good casting so far. Too bad Matt Damon wasn't surrounded with Norton and Weisz.
 
AgentChris said:
Renner, Norton and Bond's wife Rachel Weisz; pretty good casting so far. Too bad Matt Damon wasn't surrounded with Norton and Weisz.
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Julia Stiles, I'll agree, but your last sentence made me LOL. Matt Damon was surrounded by Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Joan Allen, and David Strathairn. All superior actors than Renner, Norton, and Weisz.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
No. This is an entirely new story with a different character.
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Then why is it called Bourne Legacy? No Bourne to be found in the film? Stupid Hollywood idiots milking a series for all its worth.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
Julia Stiles, I'll agree, but your last sentence made me LOL. Matt Damon was surrounded by Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Joan Allen, and David Strathairn. All superior actors than Renner, Norton, and Weisz.
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My last sentence was referring to Matt Damon still being Bourne and not Renner.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
Julia Stiles, I'll agree, but your last sentence made me LOL. Matt Damon was surrounded by Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Joan Allen, and David Strathairn. All superior actors than Renner, Norton, and Weisz.
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I Agree that Bourne had a great cast, but i'd say Norton is at least on par with a couple of them
 
LM4sure said:
Then why is it called Bourne Legacy? No Bourne to be found in the film? Stupid Hollywood idiots milking a series for all its worth.
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Actually, calling a movie The Bourne Legacy without having Bourne in it does make sense...
 
The Bourne Legacy Adds Oscar Isaac as Number 3

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Oscar Isaac has landed the role of "Number 3" in The Bourne Legacy, which is a spinoff of The Bourne Identity, directed by Tony Gilroy.

Oscar Isaac will play another brainwashed assassin in the film, which stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton.
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http://www.movieweb.com/news/the-bourne-legacy-adds-oscar-isaac-as-number-3
 
Garrett Hedlund's being considered for Bourne?

Does nobody realize he has the personality and screen presence of a wet noodle?
 
Couple returning faces:

While writer/director Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy may be a reboot of the franchise, the film won’t be without some familiar faces. Showblitz reports that Joan Allen and Albert Finney are currently in negotiations to reprise their roles in the new film. Jeremy Renner stars in Legacy as an operative trained in the same program that housed the first trilogy’s title character played by Matt Damon.

Allen appeared in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum as a CIA agent attempting to capture Damon’s character, while Finney played a doctor employed by the government program in Ultimatum. New faces alongside Renner in Legacy include Rachel Weisz and Oscar Issacs, with Edward Norton still in talks to play the villain of the film. The Bourne Legacy opens August 3rd, 2012.
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Nothing really new, but this interview with Doug Liman caught my eye:

http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies...ce-talks-bourne-legacy-and-space-heist-movie/

Q: As a producer, how are things going on The Bourne Legacy?

DL: Pretty great. We start shooting this fall.

Q: I’m excited about it, but I kind of wish Matt Damon would still be willing to continue Jason Bourne. Why couldn’t Jeremy Renner still be playing Jason Bourne?

DL: Well, Jason Bourne has completed his arc. The franchise from its very inception was a character-driven action franchise. Unlike James Bond, which is sort of an action driven franchise, it’s character driven and the character has completed their arc. If it were a TV series, we would have slowed down the arc so you could build 50 episodes out of it. But it wasn’t a TV series. It was a movie so he’s got to complete his arc.

Q: But as fans, we trust you and Tony Gilroy to come up with another great issue for Jason Bourne. Like life, more things still happen to him.

DL: But the most interesting thing happened and was resolved. I mean, Robert Ludlum in the original novel completed his arc in the first book and did what you said, reset him in the second book, completed his arc, then reset him again and completed him in the third book. But it’s a little gimmicky.

Q: What is the issue for the new legacy?

DL: I can’t even tell you about the character.
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So is Doug one of the producers now or still an executive producer? I know EP doesn't really do shit and Universal just gave Doug credit for EP, which he wasn't apart of Supremacy and Ultimatum. Maybe it was a screw up by the interviewer, though it still seems Doug's in the loop on Legacy's plot.
 
pass.

I remember thinking WTF at having Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Now I cannot see anyone else playing the role.

He owned that role
 
I wouldn't count Tony Gilroy out. He's a good director and writer.

Gonna be interesting to see how he handles the action scenes since he's never done one before. Even though Ultimatum was subpar, the Tangiers scene (chase+fight) is the best action scene in the past decade. Would've been even greater if the camera was still and there were no quick edits.
 
The movies have nothing to do with the book and things turned out ok. I'm glad they're bringing back characters to bridge things.
 
Dunlop said:
pass.

I remember thinking WTF at having Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Now I cannot see anyone else playing the role.

He owned that role
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And? He's still Bourne, Renner is playing other character.

I'm super psyched Joan Allen is back, she was terrific in both sequels.
 
Wasn't Tomas Arana the director in Supremacy? He played Marshall. I actually like him more than Scott Glenn.

EDIT-And I'm reading the original Bourne Identity novel. 100 pages in, and so far it's Zzzzzzzzzz.
 
The studio wants to attract big faces to play the lead character. It'll bring them more $$$. Gilroy wanted to go with a lesser known actor (that aussie guy) , but the execs said no.
 
I doubt the studio will deviate from the book's titles.

They will be shooting in Alberta:

The Bourne Legacy, the fourth instalment of The Bourne Identity series, will shoot scenes in the mountains of Kananaskis, according to Sun sources.

“There will be a unit shoot,” said an industry insider who did not want to be named.

While it’s rumoured the two-week shoot will happen in December, the source said dates have yet to be solidified, and could not confirm which, if any, cast members would be on location.

There will likely be one day of shooting at Fortress Mountain, where parts of Leonardo Di-Caprio’s sci-fi hit Inception were filmed in 2009, according to the insider.

The Oscar-winning movie dropped $15 million in Alberta two years ago and although The Bourne Legacy budget will not be as high, the source said it will still bring in millions of dollars in revenue to the province.

Another source said the Alberta shoot will “involve a large special-effects crew.”
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Corey Stoll playing a scientist says the film will have a lot of action:

"I had to hand back the pages every day. I was never in possession of a script. I got to read it once," Corey Stoll -- who plays an "amoral scientist" in the action flick -- told The Hollywood Reporter Friday at the New York Film Festival premiere of Carnage.

"It was like nuclear codes. At the time it seemed a little silly, but you see what happens online… when one little bit of information, whether it's true or not…" added Stoll, who played Detective Tomas 'TJ' Jaruszalski on the short-lived Law & Order: L.A.

Stoll read the script once. "The meter on my car was running out, so I was quickly flipping thorough the pages and I was really excited."

"It takes the story as we know it and makes it more ambitious on a larger scale," he says. "It's ridiculously action packed."

Stoll admits he had his doubts about the film living up to the first three takes, but they were quickly eased: "When I heard they were doing a fourth one, I didn't understand what they could do [and thought they'd be] just doing retread. But [Gilroy's] opened up the story in this way that's just… you could really mine this material for a bunch of movies, and I'm sure they'd love to. And I'd love to be a part of it!"

Is there discussion already in place? "I'm sure there is," he says.

The film was shot throughout "seven or eight" countries, Stoll says.
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God I hope the script leaks out.
 
I'm just gonna look at this as a whole new film and not worry about comparing it to old Bourne films.

And let just say that I do like Jeremy Renner, although he always seems really pissed off. He's pissed off in the Town, he's pissed off in Thor/Avengers trailer, he never smiles in the Mission Impossible trailer. Damon and Cruise have those crowd-pleasing smiles, Renner should work on that once in awhile!
 
Is Renner the new Hemsworth, who was the new Worthington?

What's Hollywoods obsession with finding someone and putting them in ALL OF THE THINGS
 
Renner talks a little bit about Bourne:


"My character is called Aaron Cross," Renner told us, "but he ends up having a bunch of different names. For fans of the franchise, [The Bourne Legacy] has that same ticking clock, but it's a new programme and new characters."

So is Treadstone still involved? "Yeah, it's that same deal, it's just a new set of agents with a different leash. It's the same tempo and pace but more expansive and bigger. The differences are pretty vast but you'll know it's a Bourne movie."
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Is it me or is this answer just really really terrible?

So is Treadstone still involved? "Yeah, it's that same deal, it's just a new set of agents with a different leash. It's the same tempo and pace but more expansive and bigger. The differences are pretty vast but you'll know it's a Bourne movie."
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"Yea, it's the same kind of dudes. It's kind of all the same, but different, you know? Did I say it was better too? Yea, bigger and better. That sounds good, right? It's still Bourne so you'll see it either way, but I just wanted to be clear it's probably gonna be good."
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Is it me or is this answer just really really terrible?



"Yea, it's the same kind of dudes. It's kind of all the same, but different, you know? Did I say it was better too? Yea, bigger and better. That sounds good, right? It's still Bourne so you'll see it either way, but I just wanted to be clear it's probably gonna be good."
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"Bigger, better, more badass."
 
jett said:
So it's not a Bourne movie then.
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Judging by Renner's recent quote, it's basically gonna have the same pacing and tempo as the Bourne movies, so I guess my assumption was wrong. The good news is no shaky cam. And no John Powell, which I'm severely disappointed.

I don't like the name Aaron Cross. Heh. Oh well.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
"Yea, it's the same kind of dudes. It's kind of all the same, but different, you know? Did I say it was better too? Yea, bigger and better. That sounds good, right? It's still Bourne so you'll see it either way, but I just wanted to be clear it's probably gonna be good."
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Its good that he didn't answer like this.
 
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