Jeremy Renner to Star in 'The Bourne Legacy'
Thu, April 21, 2011 
The search is over.
Jeremy Renner is set to topline The Bourne Legacy as TOLDJA! reports Universal has officially offered the actor the lead role and that Renner is expected to accept fairly quickly.
The actor beat out the likes of Joel Edgerton (The Thing), Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double), Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) and Luke Evans (The Amateur American) who had tested in recent weeks.
This comes as no surprise to many as Latino Review reported earlier this month that Renner was Universal's top choice after writer/director Tony Gilory wanted to go with actor Oscar Issac (Robin Hood) but the studio felt he was not bankable enough to carry the franchise.
The Bourne Legacy will exist in the world set up in the previous three films starring Matt Damon, although the character of Jason Bourne will not appear at all. Renner will play a new, government trained assassin, who comes from a program even more dangerous than Treadstone, which hatched Bourne.
Renner is definitely on a role lately with landing big roles as he is set to play Clint Barton/Hawkeye in The Avengers, due out next July, will co-star with Tom Cruise in the upcoming Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and recently filmed Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with Gemma Arterton.
The Bourne Legacy is set to start filming this September for an August 3rd, 2012 release date.
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