The Bourne Legacy (film)

The Bourne Legacy is a 2012 American action spy thriller film directed by Tony Gilroy, and is the fourth installment in the series of films adapted from the novels originated by Robert Ludlum, and continued by Eric Van Lustbader. Although this film has the same title as Van Lustbaders first Bourne novel, The Bourne Legacy, the actual screenplay bears little resemblance to the novel. Unlike the novel, which features Jason Bourne as the principal character, the film centers on Black ops agent Aaron Cross played by Jeremy Renner, an original character. In addition to Renner, the film stars Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton.

The CIA lost track of Jason Bournes whereabouts in Moscow six weeks ago. Meanwhile, Aaron Cross Jeremy Renner is a government operative assigned to Operation Outcome, a Department of Defense black operation program using experimental pills known as chems to enhance the physical and mental abilities of their users. Aaron is assigned to Alaska for a training exercise, where he must survive weather extremes and traverse rugged terrain in order to arrive at a remote cabin. The cabin is operated by an exiled Outcome operative, Number Three Oscar Isaac, who informs Aaron that he has broken the mission record by two days.Reporter Simon Ross Paddy Considine of The Guardian, who has been investigating the CIA programs Treadstone and Blackbriar, is assassinated at London Waterloo station. When the illegal adaptation of the programs is exposed by Bourne, the FBI and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigate CIA Director Ezra Kramer Scott Glenn, Deputy Director Pamela Landy Joan Allen, Blackbriar supervisor Noah Vosen David Strathairn and Treadstone medical director Dr. Albert Hirsch Albert Finney. ........

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