First Official Trailer and Poster for 'The Bourne Legacy' Are Both Sufficiently Bourney

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 10:16 Written by  Jordan DeSaulnier
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First Official Trailer and Poster for 'The Bourne Legacy' Are Both Sufficiently Bourney

Universal Pictures has just released the first official teaser trailer and poster for The Bourne Legacy, the franchise continuation bearing the Bourne name but replacing Matt Damon's titular ass-kicker with another government-trained badass, this time played by two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner.

Both the poster and the trailer incorporate some very stylized stripey bits, but both stick within the wheelhouse established by Doug Liman with The Bourne Identity and taken further by Paul Greengrass with the two subsequent sequels.  In the trailer, there are plenty of signifiers tht this is a Bourne movie, including familiar actors, efficient ass-kickery, MacGuyver-like industriousness, and, most importantly, a bunch of government suits standing around control rooms talking about just how unstoppable our hero is.

Check out the trailer below or in high definition at Apple, where it premiered today.

While Bourne's amnesia and slow discovery of his past self was the engine driving the last three films, what intrigues about this trailer is the idea that we're seeing the assassination program that created that character from the ground-up, rather than in fractured flashbacks.  I like the introduction of Renner's beaten-up Aaron Cross and the clinical, ominous vibe of the training program.  Bonus points for introducing Albert Finney as Dr. Hirsch, who we first saw in The Bourne Ultimatum.

The trailer wisely includes familiar faces like Finney, Joan Allen, and David Strathairn, but the film also stars Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Corey Stoll, and Oscar Isaac.

Tony Gilroy, who contributed to previous screenplays, co-writes and directs here, following up his two previous directorial efforts, Michael Clayton and Duplicity.

The film hits theaters on August 3rd.  Peep the poster below:


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