Earlier this month Jeremy Renner expressed his interest in seeing The Bourne Legacy’s Aaron Cross sharing the screen with Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, and now the Avengers: Age of Ultron star has given an udpate on Universal’s plans for its Bourne Legacy sequel, as well as how a potential team-up between the two spies could play out…
“[The Bourne Legacy sequel] is still moving,” Renner tells Crave Online. “Yeah, it’s still moving. We have our director who’s actually run off to do the True Detective series right now, and then while that’s happening they’re finishing writing the script. I know Greengrass and Damon… well, I’ve heard have maybe cracked an idea, a reason to continue the Bourne series, which is fantastic. They have created a very exciting universe, and hopefully in my mind I’d love for us to do something together. If not on the next one, sometime very soon. I think that would be really great. I know I want it. I feel like the fans want it as well.”
As for whether a crossover would see Cross and Bourne going up against each other or teaming up, Renner stated that: “For me, in my head? I think it’s a little bit of both. I think you pit them against each other, and then they go together against the bad guy. We realize that we’re not the enemy. I mean, I think a thousand people can come up with that scenario, but I think you do both. I think that could be really interesting. Mind you, there have been NO talks, whatsoever, creatively about that. So that’s just the fanboy in me, I suppose.”
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Originally published October 9, 2014. Updated November 7, 2019.
