{"id":14850,"date":"2011-07-13T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:31:47","slug":"ed-norton-up-for-villain-in-bourne-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/13\/ed-norton-up-for-villain-in-bourne-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Norton Up For Villain In BOURNE LEGACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EdwardNorton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14851\" title=\"EdwardNorton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EdwardNorton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Ed Norton is currently in negotiations to star opposite Jeremy Renner in David Gilroy&#8217;s upcoming <strong>The Bourne Legacy<\/strong>. Norton will be playing the villain to Renner&#8217;s heroic lead.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about the plot of the film outside of the fact that it is a follow up to the Matt Damon-starring <strong>Bourne<\/strong> trilogy but will not feature the actor. Instead, the movie will center on another US special agent who was brainwashed into a killing machine by a covert government organization even worse than the one behind the machinations of the previous films.<\/p>\n<p>Director Gilroy is the writer behind the previous installments in the franchise, so he is certainly a good pick to continue things with this new movie. Although this is first crack at helming a Bourne film he has <strong>Michael Clayton<\/strong> and <strong>Duplicity<\/strong> on his directorial resume and that&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting about the choice of Norton as villain is that he is a much bigger marquee name than Renner. As the first three films centered very much on Damon&#8217;s Jason Bourne character, it seems unusual that someone like Norton would take what would be a more supporting role than he usually would. It leads me to believe that perhaps Gilroy is going to be giving his hero&#8217;s nemesis more screen time than usual in this outing. Hopefully for Gilroy, Norton won&#8217;t be as difficult as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/update-marvel-confirms-norton-out-of-avengers-offers-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">some of the stories<\/a> that came out of the production of 2008&#8217;s <strong>The Incredible Hulk<\/strong> would lead us to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120825131952\/http:\/\/www.variety.com:80\/article\/VR1118039793\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Will square off against Jeremy Renner in the upcoming thriller.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/13\/ed-norton-up-for-villain-in-bourne-legacy\/\" title=\"Ed Norton Up For Villain In BOURNE LEGACY\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3913,465,2429],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-david-gilroy","8":"tag-edward-norton","9":"tag-jeremy-renner"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}