jobloffski
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They should forget 'Legacy' and try this 'good old switcheroo' take on the concept
The Bourne Precursor
Set before the Bourne films, the team that would be later trying to hunt down Bourne, or the earlier incarnation of the team hunt down someone they believe is a government agent who has 'gone rogue'
This 'rogue' is part of the same programme that produced Bourne. His reaction to the psychological conditioning was to break and become psychotic. He interprets anybody giving him a second glance as a potential sign he is being hunted down in an attempt to prevent him completing his 'mission'. It is never clear what the nature of this 'mission' is because he is in permanent 'fightback' mode even though nobody is threatening him.
We don't follow this character. We follow the team trying to track him down (perhaps taking advice from Brian Cox and/Albert Finney, who never mention the black ops programme they're a part of, but we, as viewers already know about, so the prequel gives us baddies we already know).
The team, following advice from the black ops programme we know Bourne was a part of, hunt down this rogue, seemingly indestructible agent who seems to be able to go anywhere, do anything, surivive anything. The twist to the story is that he is actually insane and his skills as a killer are being employed against innocent people he believes are intent on taking him by surprise and killing him.
This then creates a new dimension to the 'saga' by us following those desperate to track down and stop this man by any means necessar, and actually, as an audience, being in the position of rooting for those trying to track down the lone gun man, instead of the other way around. The lone gunman, to the team, is like a bogeyman, a mythical monster, and his every brief appearance ends in someone being killed, more often than not, just some innocent Joe.
Basically, a Bourne film in which (even though we know via Bourne how the monster was created), the Bourne equivalent is a tragically broken human being, who went through all Bourne went through, but is completely unredeemable. because he is simply too dangerous to absolutely anyone he perceives to to be potentially trying to kill him (which could basically be anyone who looks at him oddly). He is completely out of control, and has to be stopped.
Now put a Maguire, or a Jake G in that role, and you have a potential game changer for the actor concerned to rival, perhaps even exceed the change of perception of Matt Damon after the initial doubts about his capacity to appear 'dangerous'
after he was originally cast as Bourne.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 28/2/2011 9:26:33 AM >
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