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Usually, when a franchise hits its fourth installment and it replaces the lead actor, you can pretty much write it off. That’s not the case with The Bourne Legacy. Jeremy Renner (The Avengers, The Hurt Locker) takes over for Matt Damon, and perhaps more importantly, Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz have entered the fold. Seriously, when was the last time either of these two made a bad movie?

Universal has released the first trailer for The Bourne Legacy, where we learn that not only was Jason Bourne one of many, he was just “the tip of the iceberg.”
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The Bourne Legacy opens August 3rd, 2012.
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Synopsis: The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films. For The Bourne Legacy, Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.