Goodbye Matt Damon. Heeeeello Jeremy Renner!
Universal has released the first trailer for THE BOURNE LEGACY and it is awesome... plus it's fairly unique in the way it's cut.
I'm not really a fan of the BOURNE films (I'll take Bond or McClane over Jason any day); I love what they did for the action genre in terms of making fight scenes more brutal and real, but I was never sold on Matt Damon being a baddass. But Renner is (in this writer's humble opinion) one of the most badass badasses currently acting in Hollywood today.
Edward Norton also makes an appearance as the villain, increasing my interest in the film even more. And there even seems to be a little bit of THE GREY in there (by which I mean someone kicking ass in a winter coat in the snow).
So... goodbye Jason Bourne... and welcome to badaasery, Kenneth Kitsum! (Or is it Aaron Cross?)
Check out the heart-pounding trailer after the jump!
THE BOURNE LEGACY hits screens August 3rd, by which point you will have also seen Renner as Hawkeye in THE AVENGERS.
