The Bourne Legacy, without Bourne

Well the new Bourne Legacy theatrical trailer is out and it looks good. No Matt Damon and no Paul Greengrass meant that studio had to get the lots of starpower to maintain interest of a Bourne fan like me in the franchise. They did exactly the same, bringing in some starpower in form of  Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz. Ironically, the film series has some similarities with the novel also, the first three were written Ludlum thats Identity, Supermacy and Ultimatum which were a trilogy in there own. After Ludlum's death the series was continued by Eric Van Lustbader, starting from Legacy.

So in terms of watching movie as a fan of Matt Damon as Bourne, I and many like me will be treating it like a franchise which was complusion of studio to continue because the first three movies earned them a cult following and ofcourse big bucks. Though they did some smart thinking in not continuing the character of Bourne with Renner, which would have been a very risky gamble. I don't want to take anything away from that guy but I can't imagine any other actor as Bourne other than Matt Damon, well they are good at making it that way only. But as a disoriented, confused and clueless guy who goes by his instinct in a hostile enviroment, with everyone after his life for seemingly no reason, Matt Damon was great. In trailer its mentioned, he's the agent(Renner) without inconsistencies so he will be going in hot without any problems Bourne had. Nevertheless action seems to be badass as usual and the guy who wrote screenplay for previous movies Tony Gilroy is the director, inresting to is if they can take forward the Legacy, left by Damon and Greengrass.