Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has offered actor Jeremy Renner the lead role in Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy. Renner is expected to sign on quickly for the part, which is a new character — a departure from the Jason Bourne character made popular by Matt Damon in the first three films in the franchise:
Renner will play an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.
