This summer, the franchise is getting a reboot of sorts with Jeremy Renner taking over from Matt Damon.

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In the new movie, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a similarly elite killer, though drawing his checks from the Defense Department.

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Examining all those needs, the guy left standing was Jeremy Renner.

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Jeremy Renner is a good candidate to jump start the franchise.

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This frees up Paramount executives to work on in-house franchises like Star Trek (a sequel is slotted for 2012) and Mission: Impossible 4 with Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner which is already filming.

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Jeremy Renner is an unlikely up-and-coming action star.

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At Comic-Con Downey took the stage and introduced Mark Ruffalo as The Incredible Hulk, Jeremy Renner (from The Hurt Locker) as Hawkeye and the relatively unknown stars of the upcoming films Thor and Captain America.

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Portrayed by Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (who's already had a blockbuster summer as Hawkeye in "The Avengers"), Cross is an agent with another government program called Outcome, which creates agents with medically enhanced cognitive and physical capabilities.

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The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.

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