Jeremy Renner Offered Leading Role In The Bourne Legacy!

Jeremy Renner Offered Leading Role In The Bourne Legacy!

Recent reports suggest that The Hurt Locker actor Jeremy Renner has been offered the leading role in the Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy film. Check it out!

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By DCMarvelFreshman - Apr 21, 2011 05:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Bourne
Source: Deadline


Reported on the "foolish" day the month from Latino Review, Deadline now confirms that Universal Pictures wants The Hurt Locker actor Jeremy Renner to takeover as lead of their Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy film.

The search is over. Universal Pictures has formally offered Jeremy Renner the lead role in the Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy. Hes expected to sign on quickly to play a new character in the spinoff film that begins production in September.


Before taking over the Matt Damon-driven spin-off, Renner, 40, will be appearing in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, in which he plays a similar "operative" role, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, and The Avengers, which commences filming next week. Although, THR seems to think scheduling may conflict.

Also, other actor Universal strongly tested include Dominic Cooper, Taylor Kitsch, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Evans, and Renner's Hurt Locker co-star Anthony Mackie.

Anyhow, while full story details are being kept underwraps, tentatively jump-starting production in September, what do you think?
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Dynamo
Dynamo - 4/21/2011, 6:10 PM
Wow. MI:4, Avengers and now this? The dude's rolling in it.
P862010
P862010 - 4/21/2011, 6:19 PM
seems like an insanely safe studio choice
kurekurcubic
kurekurcubic - 4/21/2011, 6:27 PM
i am so glad for this guy.he was always amazing actor,searching for a career for so long and now he has it.the thing is most of you are thinking-he will have 4 giant franchise in his future.well 5,if he gets his hawkeye spin-off.
but bourne legacy will be the only thing were he will be the main,true lead.the whole movie will depend on him and it will prove if he is a star or not.cruise is still the star of mission impossible,in hancel and gretel he shares his time with gemma and in avengers he wont have more then 25,30 minutes of screen time.
PaulRom
PaulRom - 4/21/2011, 6:29 PM
Wow, this guy must have a really packed schedule. :O
And that banner is awesome, could easily pass for the real thing. :D
InFamouslyCool
InFamouslyCool - 4/21/2011, 6:35 PM
he really is riding high. not sure why they would replace damon with someone the same age though, they should of went younger. but whatever. i like renner.
kurekurcubic
kurekurcubic - 4/21/2011, 6:38 PM
well,renner doesnt really look like he is 40,plus he is supposed to be the same age as damon since they come from the same program...
CRZYCUBAN2
CRZYCUBAN2 - 4/21/2011, 7:11 PM
Wow he is 40???
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 4/21/2011, 7:28 PM
Impossible Mission Forces Agent? Check.
SHIELD Agent? Check.
Treadstone Agent? Check.

The man's agent obviously thinks he has incredible range.
UncleDrew
UncleDrew - 4/21/2011, 7:37 PM
Jeremy Renner is a fast rising superstar but you can't take Matt Damon's place in this series i'm sorry
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NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 4/21/2011, 7:54 PM
I thought they would have chose a younger actor.
ICStoopedPeople
ICStoopedPeople - 4/21/2011, 7:56 PM
I really need to watch The Hurt Locker, this guy's in frikkin' everything, and the only things I've seen him in previously have been SWAT and 28 Weeks Later.
CapFanLex005
CapFanLex005 - 4/21/2011, 8:16 PM
@ IseeStupidPeople he is really good in The Assassination Of Jessie James By the Coward Robert Ford- That movie as whole is amazing.
SonOfStarKiller
SonOfStarKiller - 4/21/2011, 8:25 PM
For the record Renner will not be playing Bourne, but a different operative with ties to Treadstone & Blackbriar. I think the film makers know Damon is irreplaceable so it's good to see them go with a different character with a connection to Bourne. Gilroy is an excellent writer and director (see "Michael Clayton") so this should turn out really good.
PurpleHaze92
PurpleHaze92 - 4/21/2011, 8:47 PM
I DONT like his face. It bothers me...
yankeemanf
yankeemanf - 4/21/2011, 8:49 PM
@asianavenger renner has only been in like two starring rolse and got an oscar nomination for one and an oscar win for the other...i think he will replace damon just fine
pitchblack
pitchblack - 4/21/2011, 10:03 PM
Obviously he's not going to be "Jason Bourne"... it even says it in the article. They're just keeping "Bourne" in the title for recognition...
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 4/21/2011, 10:51 PM
My question with Renner is whether audiences can actually like him. Don't get me wrong, he's a great actor, but in most of his roles he plays a guy you kind of hate. He's very untried as the appealing lead in anything, and now he's been tapped to play an elite agent in three potential franchises.

Can he actually draw an audience, rather than just convince an audience that there are quality people involved? Because that's the difference between a Star and an Actor.
Seejay
Seejay - 4/21/2011, 11:06 PM
Good choice!

He have at least 3 films and 10 years of action before him.
robvillain
robvillain - 4/21/2011, 11:34 PM
"I always thought Matt Damon was a pansy, but he's rockin the shit in this one"
EarOne
EarOne - 4/22/2011, 12:41 AM
this makes NO sense.. the guy's already got a FULL plate on his schedule. Mission: Impossible (and maybe its future sequels) and all the Marvel movies a number of years from now.

making him the new Bourne doesn't add up. does Damon really not want to reprise the role???
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 4/22/2011, 3:12 AM
he will do!
MissMystique
MissMystique - 4/22/2011, 3:23 AM
He was gr8t in The hurt locker and The town so he will probably make a good Bourne too

by the way...does anyone think he looks like Damon? I think he looks (a little bit) like him
ASSASSIN666
ASSASSIN666 - 4/22/2011, 4:01 AM
This guy has a face that looks like he ran head first into a brick wall!!! This movie is pure shit without Matt Damon, end of story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MatchesMalone
MatchesMalone - 4/22/2011, 4:26 AM
The prerequisite for the role of Jason Bourne is: "You must have a shnoz like a rudebega!"
StrangerX
StrangerX - 4/22/2011, 5:41 AM
IDK if it's Matt Damon or just the Bourne movies period but one of the two really bores me. I can't sit through any of them. Maybe Renner will change that.
Zombie137
Zombie137 - 4/22/2011, 9:48 AM
He is quickly going to become over-saturated. Like Sam Worthington and Gerard Butler. He better watch out.
Hawkeye64
Hawkeye64 - 4/22/2011, 9:56 AM
god for renner. i loved him in the hurt locker and can't wait to see him as hawkeye so i couldn't be happier for him.
luckylu
luckylu - 4/22/2011, 10:28 AM
sooo.... take away his bow from avengers and he will be playing the same character again
Ven0m
Ven0m - 4/22/2011, 3:31 PM
Good choice to take over. He will be racking in the $$$$
Still wish Matt Damon was in it. He is Jason Bourne.
Spectre94
Spectre94 - 4/25/2011, 2:22 PM
My english teacher actually knows him. I just watched the Bourne trilogy the other day, and he could be good to play another agent, just as long as he doesn't play Bourne. Matt Damon IS Jason Bourne
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