The new trailer for The Bourne Legacy is online at Apple, and it's looking pretty darn terrific. What's clear from this one, as opposed to the previous effort, is just how much its story overlaps with and weaves around the Matt Damon-starring trilogy, explicitly linking in to events at the end of The Bourne Supremacy.
Here, we see that Jason Bourne's actions have left the shadowy government agency that employed him desperate to clean house and remove all traces of Operation Treadstone or any related programmes. That's bad news for Jeremy Renner's (so-called) Aaron Cross*, who is one of those scheduled to be cleaned up. And not in a nice bubble-bath-and-fluffy-towel sort of a way either. Rachel Weisz, a scientist who has been tinkering with Renner's chromosones (oo-er), is also on the run, from Edward Norton's ruthless-looking programme leader.
Glimpses of David Strathairn, Joan Allen and Scott Glenn confirm the link to the previous films, and there's even another nod to Paddy Considine's slain Guardian journalist.
The Bourne** Legacy** is out on August 13, and there will no doubt be a few more trailers and clips to decode before then.
*He growls his real name here, which sounds like Cath Kidston but is actually Ken Gidson.