The Hollywood Reporter says that Edward Norton will be joining Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz in The Bourne Legacy, presumably playing the villain in the film.
That’d be great, wouldn’t it? I personally love the idea of Norton playing the bad guy. It’s something he rarely (read: never) does, and it’s something I’d really look forward to. Although in a Bourne story/film, the villain is usually an assassin or government agent of some sort, right? This film is slated to be a reboot (based on the 4th book which was not written by Robert Ludlum) focusing on a retired Bourne, so whether it really has much to do with the world and feel the first Matt Damon flick created (doubtful) or even more closely follows the book remains to be seen.
That being said, the type of villain he’d play would certainly be up in the air to those of us, my hand being raised, that have never read the book. Although, a quick scan of Amazon points to an assassin named Khan. Obvious opportunity for a Star Trek joke is gonna be ignored, folks.
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Not entirely true that he “never” played a villain. He was the bad guy in The Italian Job and also The Score… But this might be the first time he plays a villain in a movie that’s worth seeing.
Well, yeah, it’s not that he has never played one…it’s just that he never does anymore, at least not in the past 10 or so years. Although you’re right, this is going to be the first actual decent film that he plays one.
Hey I dug the hell out of the Italian Job. I wish they made a sequel to that movie. Alas, not to be I suppose.
Being the bad guy in the Italian Job was a contractual thing IIRC. And he started out as the bad guy in…Primal Fear wasn’t it? Though that’s a SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!
they did, it was called Fast & Furious 5
Primal Fear was better than decent….no one takes directions from an Archbishop quite the way Norton does…
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