Well, it looks that Rachel Weisz is one busy lady these days. We already reported that she's in talks to join Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great and Powerful, but today, we learned that she's also in talks to star in Tony Gilroy's upcoming The Bourne Legacy.
As you know, Jeremy Renner is already on board to star in the whole thing, and, if negotiations with Weisz work out, she could be the female lead!
Here's a little description of Weisz' possible character: “she's an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.”
But is this actually going to happen? As guys from Deadline report, The Bourne Legacy starts shooting in September, while Oz, The Great and Powerful is planned to go into production this summer. Scheduling conflicts or she could do both films after all?
We'll have to wait and see.
In a meanwhile, let me remind you what director Gilroy had to say about the upcoming project: “The easiest way to think of it is an expansion or a reveal. Jason Bourne will not be in this film, but he's very much alive. What happened in the first three films is the trigger for what happens. I'm building a legend and an environment and a wider conspiracy… the world we're making enhances and advances and invites Jason Bourne's return [down the road].
Everything you saw in the first three films actually happened, and everyone who got into will be rewarded for paying attention. We're going to show you the bigger picture, the bigger canvas. When you see what we're going and see what we're doing it'll be pretty obvious… but Jason Bourne's actvities in the first three films is the immediate trigger.”
Interested to hear more about The Bourne Legacy? Stay tuned!
