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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Allen & Finney Are Still After Bourne

Joan Allen and Albert Finney have signed on to reprise their roles from the original Bourne films in Tony Gilroy's The Bourne Legacy according to THR.


Written and directed by Gilroy Jeremy Renner is playing a new character within the Bourne universe, an agent in a different covert government program than the one Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne was trapped in. Damon will not appear in the film his character will be a presence in the new franchise restarter.

Allen will return as CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy, who hunted Jason Bourne in the second film of the original trilogy, "The Bourne Supremacy," turned one of the rogue agent's greatest allies in the third installment, "The Bourne Ultimatum."  Finney was in the last act of "Ultimatum" playing Dr. Albert Hirsch, the man in charge of Operation Treadstone, the behavior modification program that created Jason Bourne.

Rachel Weisz also stars as the female lead while Edward Norton is set to play the villain Oscar Isaac plays a brainwashed assassin named 'Number 3' in the film

Frank Marshall, Jeffrey M. Weiner and Ben Smith will produce.the new Bourne

The reboot is expected to start shooting in the fall for an August 3rd 2012 bow

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