Watch: Jeremy Renner on the move in new 'Bourne Legacy' trailer
'Avengers' co-star leads compelling cast through high-stakes espionage
After "The Avengers" grossed several jillion dollars, Jeremy Renner is ready for his next assignment. And a brand new trailer for "The Bourne Legacy" shows that he's in fine form as the heir to Matt Damon's smash spy saga.
The new trailer begins just like the first one, before veering off into new territory, offering a bit more of the plot and highlighting some of the upcoming film's bone-crunching action. Jason Bourne (Damon -- glimpsed on a TV news report) is name-checked several times, just so you don't forget about him once Renner kicks things into high gear.
After events in the previous three films set things in motion, the enigmatic Treadstone project is cleaning house and agent/assassin Aaron Cross (Renner) teams with a hot lab rat (Rachel Weisz) to elude the higher-ups played by "Bourne" veterans David Strathairn, Joan Allen and Scott Glenn, plus newcomer Edward Norton (old Hulk meets Hawkeye!).
The action (especially some extreme urban motorbiking) and the high-stakes courtroom drama aspects look top-notch, but there must be more to it than yet another compromised agent on the run. The previous trilogy unfolded like a mystery, with Bourne suffering from amnesia and gradually discovering the secrets behind his own identity and that of the CIA's Operation Treadstone. Here, things seem more straightforward. It almost feels more like an extended coda to the initial trilogy rather than the beginning of a new one.
Other new additions to the series include Oscar Isaac ("Drive") and the formidable Stacy Keach ("American History X").
Tony Gilroy, who wrote the previous installments, directed the film which expands the universe created by author Robert Ludlum.
"The Bourne Legacy" opens nationwide August 3.
What do you think of the trailer? Are you ready for Renner in more "Bourne," or were the Damon movies enough on their own?
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May 31, 2012 at 2:57PM EST Reply to CommentIs there any chance they will tie it back to Jason Bourne (a/o Matt Damon)? Jeremy Renner is fine. However I just find it hard stomaching a spin-off capitalizing on the name/"legacy" of the franchise Matt Damon built. I actually like the premise more than I thought I would, although prefer more mystery to the straight-forward aspect. It would be nice if they are going to use Bourne as the name of the franchise they eventually looped back and incorporated him. It'd be like a movie called Captain America: Bucky's Legacy or something like Hulk Legacy that did not actually have Captain America or Hulk but had Bucky or some other super soldier, or some other radiation monster. Sure, it's kinda their legacy, I guess. It might even be great. However, it's not really the same as a Cap./Hulk/Bourne movie when the referred-to character is not even in the movie. I missed exactly why Damon is not going to be in this movie (or series) anymore. I think this could still be a good action movie, I would enjoy seeing Bourne/Damon actually be in the series again. He seems to have earned it over the past decade.
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May 31, 2012 at 3:10PM EST Reply to CommentBy the look of it, this movie seems to at some point take place as the same time as past Bourne movies...like the guy who is shot by Edgar Ramirez in the third one and the fact that they say Bourne is in New York.