With Matt Damon leaving and The Bourne Legacy being promoted as a bit of a reboot of the Bourne franchise, it seemed there’d be very few links to the previous trilogy. However now it’s been revealed we will get at least a few returning characters as Variety reports that both Joan Allen and Albert Finney have signed up to reprise their roles in the upcoming movie.
Joan Allen will be back as Pam Landy, while Albert Finney is set to play Dr. Albert Hirsch, both of whom are key members of the Treadstone program, which trained Jason Bourne (Finney was in Ultimatume, while Allen appeared in both Ultimatum and Supremacy). It isn’t clear as of yet how these characters will come into play in The Bourne Legacy, although Jeremy Renner has already signed on to star as another pupil of Treadstone, with reports suggesting him character will be getting mixed up in an operation that’s even more covert than that one.
Tony Gilroy, who wrote all three movies in the Jason Bourne trilogy will write and direct The Bourne Legacy. Rachel Weisz and Oscar Isaac also star, with Edward Norton in talks to portray the villain. The movie will start production soon, with an August 2012 release already pencilled in.