Word came earlier this week that Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass would return to the Bourne franchise for Universal, despite the pair’s seemingly definitive departure from the series after 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. That report indicated that the new film would supplant the already in development follow-up to the side-quel The Bourne Legacy, which starred Jeremy Renner. But now producer Frank Marshall is saying we shouldn’t count our amnesiac super-agents before they hatch… or something.
Marshall tells The Hollywood Reporter that the Renner sequel, which has Fast & Furious director Justin Lin attached, is still moving forward. Since there are no deals made yet with Damon and Greengrass, he says, the plan is to continue to develop both films at the same time.
Meanwhile, Greengrass and his frequent editor Christopher Rouse have a “strong concept” for a Bourne film. But the director also has his film about wrongly accused Olympic bomber suspect Richard Jewell (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill) in the works at Fox. THR adds that some speculation in Hollywood has Greengrass using Bourne as a bargaining chip to get Fox to pull the trigger on that film.
As for Damon, it seems he needs Bourne more than he did a few years ago as his recent films like Elysium have not been able to make those big Bourne bucks.
Interestingly, Marshall also says that the Lin/Renner Legacy sequel doesn’t have a script yet either. Well, somebody’s gonna need to make a movie to hit that July 16, 2016, release date.
"We're on two tracks," says the producer. "And if this one [with Damon and Greengrass] comes together, great, but they're still just talking."
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