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

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Matt Damon's time as the star of the "Bourne Identity" series is over, and the search his successor is over, the Latino Review reports. The site reports that a source indicated that "The Town" and "The Hurt Locker" star Jeremy Renner has been offered the lead role in the next generation of Bourne movies, starting with "The Bourne Legacy."

If true, Renner is a strong, experienced choice, but not one that had been rumored to be on director Tony Gilroy's shortlist in February. Then, potential Bourne 2.0 stars included Jake Gyllenhaal, Garrett Hedlund, Taylor Kitsch, Kellen Lutz and Tobey Maguire.
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Jason's Ultimatum said:
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.http://www.movieweb.com/news/the-bourne-legacy-adds-oscar-isaac-as-number-3
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Until about two weeks ago I had never understood why this guy kept popping up in casting stories on the movie site, then I saw Drive and Suck Punch within a span of a few days. He's a great actor. Good for him.
 
This is interesting. Damon blames Gilroy for only submitting a (shitty according to Damon) first draft of Ultimatum. We all know Ultimatum went through script hell:

http://www.accesshollywood.com/matt...icle_57908?__source=rss|imdb|latest-originals

The generally amiable actor went on to claim that the script he saw for “The Bourne Ultimatum,” the third film in the series, written by Tony Gilroy, who is directing the fourth, was “unreadable.”

“I don’t blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in. It’s just that it was unreadable,” Matt claimed to GQ. “This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It’s terrible. It’s really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left.”
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EDIT-Even more:

Makes me wonder if Gilroy will be back for a 5th Bourne with Damon/Greengrass. Burns and Nofi may craft a script.
Later, though, Damon will wonder if maybe he has become a little too relaxed. Because suddenly, as we sit on a bench in the afternoon sunshine, he takes a major swing at Gilroy. Damon says that back in 2001, when the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity, was still in postproduction, Gilroy saw a rough cut and got worried. "The word on Bourne was that it was supposed to be a turkey," Damon says. "It's very rare that a movie comes out a year late, has four rounds of reshoots, and it's good. So Tony Gilroy arbitrated against himself to not be the writer with sole credit."

Typically screenwriters use the Writers Guild's arbitration process when they feel they've been denied credit unfairly. This time, Gilroy wanted to share the credit (and the blame), Damon says, "to have another guy take the bullet with him." And so someone named William Blake Herron is now cashing residual checks on Bourne, just like Gilroy is. (Actually Damon may have gotten his chronology wrong—one source says Herron initiated the credit dispute, but that Gilroy didn't oppose sharing credit.)

Gilroy wrote Bourne 2 as well: The Bourne Supremacy. Then, Damon says, for The Bourne Ultimatum, the third in the franchise, Gilroy struck a deal to write just one draft of the script, take no notes, do no rewrites, and get paid "an exorbitant amount of money."

"It's really the studio's fault for putting themselves in that position," Damon says. "I don't blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in. It's just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It's terrible. It's really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left."

Gilroy's lackluster work left the production in chaos, Damon says. "We had a start date. Like, 'It's coming out August of next year.' We're like, 'Hang on, we've got to figure out what the script is.' " In the end, the shooting script was written under extreme deadline pressure by George Nolfi and Scott Z. Burns, with input from Greengrass, Damon says. And then Gilroy raised another challenge. "Before the movie came out, he arbitrated to get sole credit," Damon says, disgusted. The WGA looked into it and turned Gilroy down. (He shares credit with Nolfi and Burns.) "That was just a little bit of justice, I have to say," Damon says.



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Bourne Legacy is shooting in Manila soon, and some interesting info has been divulged:

http://entertainment.inquirer.net/26393/bear-with-heavy-traffic-with-‘bourne-legacy’

Can a car chase really go far in the chaotic, ever-congested streets of Metro Manila?
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Manila will serve as the setting for the “climax” or the last 20 to 25 minutes of the film, according to Film Development Council of the Philippines Chairman Briccio Santos.
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“Most of the movie’s action scenes would be filmed here. I heard that (lead actress) Rachel Weisz would be riding a jeepney as it spins around,” Santos told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “A chase scene would also be shot along the MRT (Metro Rail Transit) line.”
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“Manila is part of the story,” he said. “What I know is that Bourne’s group comes here in search of a rare medication and some forces are trying to stop them.”
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A rare medication? Hmmm. Doesn't seem very Bourne to me. What kind of medication? Something used on the agents during the Treadstone/Blackbriar process?

And apparently Renner and his friend escaped a bar fight. His friend was axed.
 
I know this is largely about the Bourne film, but seeing him in GP, I have no idea how they'll build a franchise around him. He wasn't faking his analyst mindset and seems to be very much the opposite of an Ethan Hunt character.

It was nice to see he had a wider range than the roles he's been given though.
 
Am I the only one who thinks Renner looks really old? While I was watching MI:GP I kept thinking how old he looked
 
Korey said:
Am I the only one who thinks Renner looks really old? While I was watching MI:GP I kept thinking how old he looked
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He's 40...so kind of late to start an action careerr.

I don't know I think of Renner, Worthington and Amanda Seyfried...Hollywood wants to make stars out of these actors to front big action movies and I don't think that is going to happen, they're going to fade away soon enough.
 
Dany M said:
He's 40...so kind of late to start an action careerr.

I don't know I think of Renner, Worthington and Amanda Seyfried...Hollywood wants to make stars out of these actors to front big action movies and I don't think that is going to happen, they're going to fade away soon enough.
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Arnold was 44 in T2 and 47 in True Lies.
 
Dany M said:
He's 40...so kind of late to start an action careerr.

I don't know I think of Renner, Worthington and Amanda Seyfried...Hollywood wants to make stars out of these actors to front big action movies and I don't think that is going to happen, they're going to fade away soon enough.
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They don't want them to stay that way. They are cheaper in comparison to action stars of old and if they don't work out, they are easily replaced.
 
It's interesting how they've kept plot details so secret, and any kind of footage being taken off-camera. We've seen more in Skyfall so far than in Legacy.

I hope we get a trailer in the coming months.
 
Shame to hear about Tony Gilroy being such a selfish jerk. I really liked his work directing and writing on both Duplicity and Micheal Clayton.

I don't trust him on Bourne 4 anymore.
 
He was contracted to write only one script and that's it. Even the lady at Universal said she liked the script Gilroy turned in for Ultimatum.

The problem is that writers and directors/studios are ALWAYS fighting about how the film to turn the script into a film. The original script to Identity is pretty different. I've read it.

There were clashes between Gilroy vs Liman, and then Liman vs studio. Universal didn't want to shoot the Paris scenes in France because it would've cost too much. Universal wanted to shoot the Paris scenes somewhere in Canada. Fucking CANADA. The studio also didn't want to shoot the scene in France out in the country with Clive Owen. Liman and Damon fought to shoot that scene because it was an important element to the movie showing Bourne's humanity.

Then came Supremacy. Gilroy and Greengrass fought. Greengrass had his own idea on the second film. I've never read the orginal script to Supremacy. I'm not sure if there's one Gilroy had in his own mind.

Gilroy will do a good job for Legacy. Not only did he write the script, but he's the DIRECTOR. Forget about the movie being shot without the shitty shaky cam and fast editing, he has creative control, and there's no Liman or Greengrass to butt heads with.
 
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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I love Norton... fucking amazing actor... I just watched Stone the other day... it was amazing.
Weisz is always good. been in love with her since The Mummy. Still, Renner is just annoying. I've never liked him in any movie. including M I 4.... no fucking way is he taking over for Cruise... Cruise was a fucking BOSS in 4 and that beautiful black girl, )GODDAMN) and Bird's direction made that movie. Not sure what it is... hated him in the town too, but he was the bad guys, but still. I'll just wait for it on hbo or something.
 
Awesome on Renner. I saw him in the Hurt Locker a while ago and adored his role and his character. He was great. Definitely looking forward to see him again in The Town! <3
 
This guy had about as much personality as a piece of wood in MI4. Please don't give him a damn franchise. Let alone two.


Philia said:
Awesome on Renner. I saw him in the Hurt Locker a while ago and adored his role and his character. He was great. Definitely looking forward to see him again in The Town! <3
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he was good in The Town though, so yeah you'll like that one.
 
He was so great in Ghotocol, really liked what they did with that character. Got me pretty excited about Bourne Legacy, but was always on board due to Gilroy though.
 
Discotheque said:
he was good in The Town though, so yeah you'll like that one.
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He's good at playing the role of a douchebag, which is just the impression I get from looking at his face and hearing him talk. He's perfect for playing that type of character, an irresponsible, self-righteous douche.
 
people know who renner is. all my friends love him after MI4. my aunts and uncles loved him in the town. A lot of people still remember the hurt locker. he's on the rise, like it or not
 
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