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"How can they make a Bourne movie without Matt Damon?" said just about everyone, when it was announced that a fourth installment in the film series, The Bourne Legacy, would focus on a new character played by Jeremy Renner, and would not feature Damon whatsoever. This was a dealbreaker. It didn't matter that Tony Gilroy, writer of the first three movies, was writing and directing the new project, nor that celebrated names like Renner and Edward Norton were to make up the cast. People just wanted their Matt Damon back. And, as the film's new trailer makes quite clear, the producers know it.
The new Bourne Legacy trailer doesn't exceed a span of 30 seconds without mentioning Damon's character, Jason Bourne. The video opens with a monologue introducing Renner's character Aaron Cross via a comparison to Bourne, coupled with the tagline, "There was never just one." From there, the instances of reference get exceedingly more... desperate.
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