Jeremy Renner is talk of 'Town'

July 29, 2009 Jeremy Renner, who has earned raves for his performance in "The Hurt Locker," is in negotiations to join "The Town," a romantic crime thriller from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures that Ben Affleck is directing. The story follows a bank manager (Hall), the career criminal (Affleck) who stole more than her heart and the dedicated FBI agent (Hamm) trying to bust the crook and his gang. The actor, who starred on ABC's "The Unusuals" in the spring, has appeared steadily in such movies as "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "28 Weeks Later" and "North Country."

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