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THE BOURNE LEGACY – Production Notes - I Watch Mike

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Channing Tatum, Anthony Mackie, Justin Long, Kate<br />

Mara, Rosario Dawson and Chris Pratt, the directorial<br />

debut from screenwriter Jamie Linden (Dear John, We<br />

Are Marshall) about a group of friends 10 years after<br />

their high-school graduation (with Isaac performing<br />

two songs for the film, one he wrote and the other a Bob<br />

Dylan cover); and Revenge for Jolly!, an independent<br />

comedy about two bumbling guys who seek revenge<br />

from robbers for the death of their dog named Jolly, also<br />

starring Kristen Wiig, Elijah Wood and Ryan Phillippe.<br />

Isaac was previously seen in the Warner Bros.<br />

feature Sucker Punch, for director Zack Snyder<br />

(<strong>Watch</strong>men, 300). The “Alice in Wonderland”-like tale<br />

centers on a girl who is wrongfully institutionalized and<br />

retreats into an alternative reality. The film co-starred<br />

Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens,<br />

Carla Gugino and Jon Hamm. Isaac teamed with<br />

acclaimed director Ridley Scott on Universal Pictures’<br />

Robin Hood. The film also starred Academy Award ®<br />

winners Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and William<br />

Hurt. Isaac played the role of King John and went toeto-toe<br />

with Crowe in the new take on the well-known<br />

story. In Focus Features’ Agora, directed by Alejandro<br />

Amenábar, Isaac starred opposite Academy Award ®<br />

winner Rachel Weisz in a tale of unrequited love set<br />

against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. Isaac also<br />

starred as Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta<br />

in Balibo. The film is based on the true story about<br />

the young revolutionary leader that befriended Roger<br />

East, an Australian journalist that was investigating<br />

the suspicious deaths of five of his fellow countrymen.<br />

Isaac also co-starred in the Warner Bros. film Body of<br />

Lies, opposite Academy Award ® nominee Leonardo<br />

DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, directed by Ridley Scott.<br />

Isaac was also seen in Steven Soderbergh’s Che: Part<br />

One, with Benicio Del Toro, and Vadim Perelman’s The<br />

Life Before Her Eyes, opposite Uma Thurman and Evan<br />

Rachel Wood.<br />

Isaac’s first starring role was the character Shiv,<br />

opposite Paddy Considine and Radha Mitchell, in HBO<br />

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Films’ critically lauded Pu-239, a dark comedy about<br />

selling radioactive material on the black market in post-<br />

Communist Moscow. Directed by Scott Z. Burns, the<br />

film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival<br />

in 2006 and aired on HBO in 2007. Isaac next wowed<br />

audiences with his performance as Joseph in New Line<br />

Cinema’s Christmas drama The Nativity Story, which<br />

chronicled the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph, a<br />

miraculous pregnancy and the history-defining birth of<br />

Jesus. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke and co-starring<br />

Academy Award ® nominees Keisha Castle-Hughes and<br />

Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Nativity Story was the first<br />

to premiere at the Vatican. Isaac also guest-starred on<br />

NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent.<br />

Isaac recently starred in the world-premiere production<br />

of Zoe Kazan’s play We Live Here, an incisive<br />

and beautifully rendered portrait of a contemporary<br />

family coming together through grief and celebration,<br />

at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He previously garnered<br />

superb reviews for playing Romeo in Romeo and<br />

Juliet opposite Lauren Ambrose, which was directed<br />

by Michael Greif, and Proteus in the revival of John<br />

Guare and Mel Shapiro’s musical adaptation of Two<br />

Gentlemen of Verona. Both productions were staged for<br />

the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park program<br />

in New York. Isaac also starred in Beauty of the Father<br />

by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz,<br />

which was directed by Greif at the Manhattan Theatre<br />

Club. Isaac was last seen in the American premiere of<br />

Mick Gordon and A.C. Graylings’ Grace, with Lynn<br />

Redgrave, at MCC Theater.<br />

Isaa other theater credits include Arrivals/<br />

Departures, When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba and<br />

Spinning Into Butter. While a student at Juilliard,<br />

Isaac played the title role in Macbeth; co-wrote and<br />

performed his own music in the show American<br />

Occupation; and was seen in The Marriage of Figaro,<br />

The Birds, Three Sisters and many others. He also<br />

attended master classes with such actors as Sir Ian<br />

McKellen, Fiona Shaw, Simon Russell Beale, Brenda

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