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Bourne again: Ben Affleck confirms Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass will team up for fourth time Bourne again: Ben Affleck confirms Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass will team up for fourth time
(5 months later)
Since the final instalment of the original Bourne trilogy, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the rumour mill has never really tired of chattering about another Bourne story starring Matt Damon as the titular spy. This time last year, Paul Greengrass, director of the latter two instalments of the trilogy, dismissed rumours he was making another Bourne film with Damon as a “figment of someone’s imagination”. Stating that they hadn’t even discussed a fourth film, Greengrass said, “You’ve got to move on and do different things,” and last December reiterated, “I discovered in my heart I didn’t have another one in me.”Since the final instalment of the original Bourne trilogy, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the rumour mill has never really tired of chattering about another Bourne story starring Matt Damon as the titular spy. This time last year, Paul Greengrass, director of the latter two instalments of the trilogy, dismissed rumours he was making another Bourne film with Damon as a “figment of someone’s imagination”. Stating that they hadn’t even discussed a fourth film, Greengrass said, “You’ve got to move on and do different things,” and last December reiterated, “I discovered in my heart I didn’t have another one in me.”
Matt Damon has always maintained he wouldn’t be involved in any continuation of the franchise without Greengrass, and with a spin-off franchise starring Jeremy Renner picking up the Bourne brand name and taking it in its own direction, that seemed to be an end of it.Matt Damon has always maintained he wouldn’t be involved in any continuation of the franchise without Greengrass, and with a spin-off franchise starring Jeremy Renner picking up the Bourne brand name and taking it in its own direction, that seemed to be an end of it.
That is until Friday, when Ben Affleck let slip that Damon and Greengrass would team up to give the amnesiac punch factory another outing. Affleck told E! News, “He’s going to be doing a Bourne movie next fall”, before Damon confirmed the story. “Paul Greengrass is going to do another one and that’s all I ever said. I just needed him to say yes,” he said.That is until Friday, when Ben Affleck let slip that Damon and Greengrass would team up to give the amnesiac punch factory another outing. Affleck told E! News, “He’s going to be doing a Bourne movie next fall”, before Damon confirmed the story. “Paul Greengrass is going to do another one and that’s all I ever said. I just needed him to say yes,” he said.
Quite what this means for the Renner-starring offshoot of the series remains to be seen. A sequel to 2012’s The Bourne Legacy was scheduled for 2016 with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin attached, and a Bourne film of some kind is still lined up for release on 15 July of that year, though whether it’s the Lin-directed, Renner-starring variety or the Matt Damon/Greengrass iteration is unclear.Quite what this means for the Renner-starring offshoot of the series remains to be seen. A sequel to 2012’s The Bourne Legacy was scheduled for 2016 with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin attached, and a Bourne film of some kind is still lined up for release on 15 July of that year, though whether it’s the Lin-directed, Renner-starring variety or the Matt Damon/Greengrass iteration is unclear.
If both strands are to continue, the idea could be to eventually combine them, presumably with Greengrass at the helm if Damon is involved. Jeremy Renner seems all for this approach: “Them coming together would be a pretty tremendous thing,” he told The Huffington Post last month. “I think that is ultimately the plan.”If both strands are to continue, the idea could be to eventually combine them, presumably with Greengrass at the helm if Damon is involved. Jeremy Renner seems all for this approach: “Them coming together would be a pretty tremendous thing,” he told The Huffington Post last month. “I think that is ultimately the plan.”