While it takes its time before showing you any significant footage, the 30 seconds of material in The Bourne Legacy trailer (set to rock guitars Inception music!) shows a lot with a little. It suggests you can expect a lot of the same gags and tactics that you’re used to, the same intensity of action, but that franchise screenwriter and now franchise jump-starter director Tony Gilroy is 
bringing a more measured style to the proceedings. Beyond that there’s not much to interpret because the footage is pretty minimal.
Take a look. You’ve also got Ed Norton front-and-center and a focus on how this film relates and separates from the Damon films, rather than any indication of the actual plot. The motion graphic line motif is quite clever in that respect. Renner, per usual, looks a little hysterical but perfectly confident as an action hero. I’m excited to see what he can do with this big break that coincides with his other break in The Avengers.
See the thing in HD at Apple if you care for pixels, and then shot out your thoughts in the comments below.
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That’s a righteous little piece of score right there.
The man is raking up franchises left and right. Need I say overkill? Of course he is way better then Worthington…
Does feel more generic for me compared to Powell’ score…
This looks mighty promising. I think the Bourne franchise is in good hands here.
Can’t remember the last time I said this about the fourth film a franchise but: That looks pretty badass.
Unfortunately, the cast and the setting, simply draws attention to the fact that there’s no Matt Damon.
People kinda notice shit like that.
Renner has more chance of Avengers 2, than he does of a Bourne franchise.
Disagree. Renner has the acting chops and the badass demeanor of a Matt Damon. If it’s the right material, he’ll make it work for a franchise.
Stacy Keach!!!!!!!!! Looks…..interesting. And I think it kinda sways me in the direction of liking the idea of the film just a tad more. Cuz how many more amnesia related films can the original Jason Bourne/David Webb have?
Still, I bet Matt Damon’s pissed off.
Renn, is that reference to “Inception” in your article meant to represent surprise? Because the musical styles of the Bourne trilogy so far and Inception are already very similar, what with the connection John Powell and Hans Zimmer have had in the last decade or so.
Also noteworthy: I get the feeling that there will be a lot of back and forth between the present day and the past of the other Bourne films in this particular one, due to Chris Cooper’s voice in the beginning of this trailer (unless they’re going to do a stupid dance around the three bullets he caught in part one; Hopefully we’ll see how involved he is during the training), and due to the presence of Albert Finney doing similar things to what he did in the past and brief present when he was in Bourne Ultimatum.
Still, I prefer no more amnesia in this series. It’s been done to death.
Oops. Well we’ll have two articles about this.