Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye of Marvel’s The Avengers) takes over the Jason Bourne action franchise (from Matt Damon) with The Bourne Legacy. Writer/Director Tony Gilroy hints how Damon and Renner’s characters could be together in a new film. Gilroy’s game plan for continuing the series revealed in the latest Empire magazine is pure Shakespearean.
“If you think of the first three Bourne films as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, then we’re showing you Elsinore. You thought you were seeing something you weren’t. What if there’s a much larger story? What if Treadstone wasn’t the only black-ops programme?
“I had never spent one moment thinking about how to do a sequel to Bourne Ultimatum. I first came in for two weeks just to spitball. I had a very random idea…so we started with that and it got more and more exciting. All of a sudden I was staring at something that had a great deal of resonance and was soulful and uncynical and was also gonna kick ass. So that was good.”
Producer Frank Marshall says, “You see there are several different programmes in the movie with different skill sets. All possibilities are open. My dream is that in the next one we see Matt and Jeremy team up.”
For the entire interview here’s the link or watch for the new issue of Empire magazine.
Here’s the trailer:
By Editor