Good to hear Damon wanting a story to justify Bourne's return. Perhaps they can actually use the Ludlum storylines this time?

Considering they went completely off-story within the 1st 5 minutes of the 1st movie, I doubt we'd be so lucky. That really threw me the 1st time I saw Bourne Identity. I was too busy thinking WTF?! to enjoy the movie for how badass it was in it's own right. Maybe they could harken back to the real Bourne Supremacy for some ideas for Bourne ad Infinitum. They made so many changes that Bourne is the only constant between the books and movies though. Doing a faithful adaptation would come across as a series reboot. :/

True. I read the books after the films, and they were so different I couldn't believe the novel cover actually had Matt Damon on it. Carlos anyone? Seems a bit too Cold War to me.

At least the guys behind Bourne care enough to actual do justice to the story. I would not mind another Bourne film, especially after how fantastic Ultimatum was. But if the story makes no sense and it just seems like an excuse to make another one, then don't do it.

I'm with Russ. I was initially excited about an Arrested Development movie because of my love for the show but this thing seems to be a lead balloon at this point. If they can't round up the entire cast and get a script nailed down, equal to the best episode, then just forget about it and let the tv show stand on it's own.

Precisely. I stated this about three posts ago. Expect a new 'update' on it later this week, then a couple more next week. Then expect a 'no go' announcement before the end of the year.

Let it go already, people.

Mythbusters have proven that a lead balloon CAN take flight. Fly, lead balloon, fly!

Question: Why does everyone associated with Arrested Development hate baby Jesus? Baby Jesus wants his Arrested Development movie.

Mythbusters also proved that a lead balloon can go up in flames like a hobo soaked in kerosene.

We've already got 53 episodes of Arrested Development. We don't need more.

Amen.

Incorrect. The correct answer is "we need all the Arrested Development that can possibly be produced without suffering a drastic drop in quality."

Considering the talent that was involved in the production of that show, that drop would not have happened for a long, long, long time, if ever.

Well, that's like saying you want another Star Wars movie but one that is of the quality of Empire Strikes Back. Everyone wants to have that but everyone knows they're not gonna get it.

I disagree with the naysayers! The only film I am interested in for the next year is Arrested Development, can you imagine how much fun it will be to see the writers use their wit, love of drama, and in-jokes/references/fourth-wall-breaking on the big screen? Comedy of the year with a sure Oscar(.com) nod or two

The creative team and producers of Bourne are nobly foot-dragging while they wait out the (most likely) final days of current Universal leadership. Frank Marshall is no fool.

So they actually cancelled arrested development before it got dragged to death through 10 seasons and now they want a movie?! Just let it rest!

dragged to death through TEN seasons? You got it, ten whole seasons

he meant its a good thing it didnt get dragged through 10 seasons.

Let us get the Arrested Development and Veronica Mars movies alredy. We need more from those shows.

Dont get me wrong as im a HUGE Bourne fan. I have seen every film like a dozen times but as i watched the movies again last week, it occurred to me that the movies had absolutely no plot whatsoever. Every scene was either just part of some frantic chase or lining up the circumstances for one.

Spoilers ahead: Jason Bourne is David Webb and he volunteered for this job. He was in army and then got into this program.. thats it. This thing could have been told in first movie. If you watch the movies again, a total of like 10 minutes is spent on character background and exploration. No nothing like childhood or what was his motive to join the CIA in the first place other than serving the country BS.

Do i want to see another Bourne movie? I really dont as all i can think of is Shrek 3, Spiderman 3 or Pirates of the Caribbean 3. I know it will b part 4, but its a sequel nonetheless. There is nothing remaining that they can explore now that the program that made him is killed and exposed to the public, with the officials running it behind bars. They can continue the childhood angle but how is Bourne a threat? He was a threat in Part 1, 2 and 3 and thus the reason for all those chases but unless i missed something, there is nothing to dig up for another movie.

PS: I really think of TAKEN as part 4 of the series: Bourne got settled, somehow rejoined the cia and got married. Had a daughter and then got divorced.. you know the rest.

TAKEN as a Bourne sequel?
Sir... you have my respect.

I said it before and I'll say it again... there is absolutely no need for the fourth Bourne movie. I'm a big fan of the character and the whole trilogy, and it's perfect as it is. The whole story is about Bourne trying to remember everything that happened to him. At the end of Ultimatum, all the pieces finally came together. That's it. End of story. There's nothing more to tell.

Mitch's new project: Sit Down, Shut Up! the movie. *Puts gun to head*

I'd be more than happy to trade in Bourne 4 for Arrested Development. And it's not like Mitch has anything else to do, what ti Sit Down, Shut Up being a resounding failure thanks to Fox.

Sit Down, Shut Up was a resounding failure because it was a bad show.

But it could have been a GOOD show if Fox let it be the live action sitcom like it was supposed to be.

the bourne trilogy is perfect as is, and there aren't many perfect trilogys around

I need the AD movie now! Come on guys... just make it! I know it's gonna be fuckin expensive, now that even Cera is a big star, but come on... just spend the money!

It's not like Fox is using the cash for anything else that is good.

Those Bourne movies are one of the few perfect trilogies out there. If all of the parties want to continue, and the script is there, I'd be up for a fourth, but the odds are against it standing up to the other three.

The Bourne series is fantastic. I have watched my DVDs of them several times back to back over the last few years and haven’t been bored yet.

Could a fourth Bourne movie be done?

The three original novels centre around the premise of David Webb being trained as a deep cover operative, posing as an assassin named Jason Bourne, in order to smoke out and kill or capture Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, AKA “Carlos the Jackal”. Bourne washes ashore with amnesia after being shot, is brought back to physical health by a French doctor, and meets a woman named Marie St. Jacques, a French-Canadian government economist, who remains a character throughout the three novels. By the end of the series, Webb and Marie are married, have children and settle in Maine. Webb becomes a university professor. Alex Conklin, his trainer/handler, also has a presence in all the novels, and is a friend to Webb.

There are four subsequent novels by Eric Van Lustbader, written after Robert Ludlum died. The Bourne: Legacy, Betrayal, Sanction and Deception. A fifth Lustbader novel is due next year called The Bourne Objective.

I have so far only read the trilogy and The Bourne Legacy. In Legacy, Marie is mentioned only in passing and Conklin and a doctor who helped Bourne with his memory, are assassinated in a manner that frames Webb/Bourne. He must now hunt down the assassins and clear his name again. In the meantime, he battles and then teams up with a character named Khan, who turns out to be his son Joshua from his first marriage to a Vietnamese woman he met during the Vietnam War.

It makes sense that the Damon movies did not follow the original novels. First, in 1988, The Bourne Identity was done somewhat accurately, though in not nearly an exciting way, starring Richard Chamerblain and Jaclyn Smith. Second, Carlos the Jackal has been portrayed many times, with varying degrees of accuracy, and as the real Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was captured and jailed as of 1997, the novels’ exaggerated portrayal of him would have been out of date and inaccurate for the movies. Third, the original Bourne was in the Vietnam War, which Matt Damon’s character is too young for. Because of this, and while the first Damon movie picked up on a lot of plot points, the subsequent movies had to be skewed away from the books.

However a fourth movie could work by substituting certain characters like Conklin and Lindros in the Legacy novel with characters that remain prominent in the movies like Pamela Landy and Tom Cronin. And though Marie is out of the picture, Nicky Parsons could certainly be written in as a love interest of Bourne and possible target of whatever villain is created. “Legacy” Bourne was written as a strong enough and “young” enough character that you could easily imagine Matt Damon in the role. Though Damon’s character is not old enough to have fought in Vietnam, let alone fathered a child with a Vietnamese woman, he could be written to be around the right age to have been born near the end of the war, and have a brother named Joshua.

Not having read past Legacy, I can’t speak for the viability of a continuing Bourne franchise. However, reading synopses of the novels at Wikipedia, they could work and possibly get the character back “on track”. By the time Sanction was written, most of Bourne’s ties to the original plot line have vanished, and he could become a recurring character like Bond, but as a reluctant hero, haunted by his past, and forced into awful situations like Jack Bauer on 24. While I’d hate to see the character become stale and pointless, I would definitely support further movies. It would also be interesting, if more were made, to see audience rivalry like “Who is better? Bourne or Bond?”

Jason Bourne has had THREE movies, it's enough STOP !
Veronica Mars has a script for god's sake ! We want one more dark mystery on big screen, we want good interactions between the Keith, Veronica and Logan characters for the last time (a la Chinatown). Don't want to see Kristen Bell on at least one GOOD movie ?