The Bourne Legacy is a 2012 American action thriller film and the fourth installment in the Bourne film series, which is based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels. It is directed by Tony Gilroy,
screenwriter of the first three films and was released on August 8,
2012, in the Philippines and Singapore; August 9, 2012, in Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and Czech Republic; August 10, 2012, in the US and India; and
August 13, 2012, in the UK. The film uses the same title as The Bourne Legacy, a later Bourne novel written by Eric Van Lustbader, and like the previous three films in the franchise, it has a completely different plot from the eponymous novels.
Director: Tony Gilroy
Writers: Tony Gilroy (screenplay), Dan Gilroy (screenplay)
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton
The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy,
takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage
franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office:
The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe
created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a
new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered
by the events of the first three films. For The Bourne Legacy, Renner
joins fellow series newcomers
Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while
franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott
Glenn reprise their roles.
