This summer, Tony Gilroy and Jeremy Renner served up The Bourne Legacy, a Bourne movie without its title character. But those who've been following the franchise over the years will recall that that wasn't always the plan. After the success of The Bourne Ultimatum, star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass tried for years to…
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Tony Gilroy has been working on securing a lead for the film and possible franchise that he and Universal are spinning off from the Bourne films. This isn't a reboot, remember, put a sort of parallel set of stories that will mostly stand on their own but also shed some light on the existing Bourne…
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After The Bourne Ultimatum was released in 2007, Fox quickly announced development on a fourth Bourne movie. First we heard, producer Frank Marshall was hoping to begin shooting next Summer for a 2010 release. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon had signed on, and George Nolfi (co-writer on Bourne Ultimatum, but he also wrote Ocean's Twelve)…
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There's been a lot of problems getting a fourth Bourne script in good shape. Writers have come and gone, Paul Greengrass left the project and Matt Damon even said he wouldn't do another one unless Paul came back. So, I reckon the following bit of news was pretty much inevitable, if a little quicker coming…
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A month ago there was news that two directors were possibly in line to take Steven Soderbergh's place on Moneyball: Marc Webb of (500) Days of Summer and Capote's Bennett Miller. At the time, there was conflicting info on who was first in line. THR seemed to emphasize Webb, but The Playlist had been told…
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[UPDATE: Paul Greengrass has issued a statement, reprinted in Variety. He's as diplomatic as you'd expect: "My decision to not return a third time as director is simply about feeling the call for a different challenge. There's been no disagreement with Universal Pictures. The opportunity to work with the Bourne family again is a difficult…
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There's been a lot of talk about the projected fourth Jason Bourne movie, and Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass still seem to be heavily considering it as a possible project. But some of the talk is getting into bizarre territory, like the report that Universal is developing parallel scripts. But according to Damon, he hasn't…
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A fourth film in the Jason Bourne series is still in active development, despite recent speculation otherwise. Last week Matt Damon told Entertainment Weekly that they don't yet "have a story and we don’t have a script." Universal has apparently moved on and hired another screenwriter Josh Zetumer to write what is being described as…
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Directors and actors always say that they sign onto a film because of a great script, which is only true (no matter what anyone says) part of the time. But without any script at all, most films can't get going. (Unless it's a Pirates of the Caribbean film.) Two big films we've been vaguely interested…
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So what's the latest on the fourth film in the Jason Bourne series? Last we heard, producer Frank Marshall was hoping to begin shooting next Summer for a 2010 release. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have already signed on, all they need now is a script. Today it was announced that Universal is serious about…
Read MoreMatt Damon and Paul Greengrass will be returning for a fourth film in the Bourne series. The Bourne trilogy has made over $945 million worldwide at the box office (the last film, Ultimatum, responsible for $443 million of that total). The films are based on novels by Robert Ludlum, who passed away in 2001. Eric…
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