Both films are expected to be very successful, so Weisz will have a hard choice on her hands if she must pick between the two.
The Bourne Legacy has found its leading man in Jeremy Renner, who has become more and more popular over the past few years, getting Academy Award nominations for Hurt Locker and last year’s The Town. He will certainly make a great new character for the Bourne series, playing,
“an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.”
Oz: The Great and Powerful has also cast its leads with James Franco playing Oz and Mila Kunis as the lead female, Theodora. If Weisz joins Franco and Kunis, both exceptional actors, she would be playing Evanora, Theodora’s evil witch sister.
The problem lies in the possibility of a scheduling conflict. Production for Oz is set to begin this summer, whilst The Bourne Legacy is looking to start shooting in September, which could mean that Weisz must decide which of the two roles she would prefer. I think she would excel in both, so it is thankfully a case of neither choice – if a choice must be made – being a wrong one. Either way, we can look forward to seeing even more of Weisz in the next few years. She currently has four projects in post-production, including Terrence Malick’s as-yet-untitled follow-up to The Tree of Life (which is premiering at Cannes), opposite a stellar cast including Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, and Olga Kurylenko.
