Coming from someone who has only watched the Bourne series and never read the books, it came as a great surprise to me that Jeremey Renner is playing a different character in The Bourne Legacy.
Is there a specific production reason why they changed to a different character like Matt Damon or even the writers getting bored of Jason Bourne. Or is it as simple as the production wanting to tell this tale from someone else affected by the Treadstone program?
Answer
Wikipedia has a couple of pages of the reasons, with multiple links to detailed quotes if you are interested in those.
Here’s a summary:
Apparently they changed their minds about making Ultimatum the final movie and started on a fourth, which was to be original (i.e., not based on any books). The timing however did not fit nicely into their schedules and by the time they had something ready, director Paul Greengrass had moved on and Matt Damon had stated that he would not do another Bourne movie without him.
They decided to do a prequel (which was eventually changed to be parallel to Jason’s story) and after testing numerous actors, they settled on Renner. While Damon is not in the latest movie, producer Frank Marshall hopes to have Renner and Damon co-star in a future installment.
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