But another Bourne film is "planned", which in my book is good news, after the solid Supremacy and the fantastic Ultimatum. I hope it sorts James Bond out. I hope it goes ahead.
When Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon were doing the publicity rounds for The Bourne Ultimatum last year, they seemed pretty certain that the wildly successful thriller (now the winner of three Oscars – techie ones, maybe, but Oscars nonetheless) would be the last outing for the amnesiac assassin.
But there was a caveat to that – Damon said he would consider doing one if Greengrass did it; and Greengrass said that he would consider doing another one if Damon did it. And now it looks like that may be the case, after Universal rather casually and sneakily announced plans for a fourth Bourne movie, with the director and star on board.
The announcement is tucked away in an article about Universal and its upcoming slate on Variety. ‘More recently, [Universal’s chairman, Marc] Shmuger and [co-chairman, David] Linde landed Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon for a fourth "Bourne" movie, even though the director and star seemed ready to wrap it up after three pics,’ reads the sentence in question. And after that, nothing. No more news, or any indication of where a fourth Bourne might take us – or, crucially, when.
At the moment, Damon and Greengrass – rapidly becoming one of the best actor-director teams around – are hard at work on their Universal-backed Iraq-set thriller, The Green Zone. After that, Damon starts work on Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant, while Greengrass has several things pencilled into his diary, too, including They Marched Into Sunlight.
So, it’s entirely possible that Bourne 4 might not even begin pre-production until 2009 or 2010 at the earliest. But that’s still not too early to get excited.
Or should we? After all, the Bourne trilogy is one of the best Hollywood franchises in a long while, and the two Greengrass entries in particular (Supremacy and Ultimatum) pretty much single-handedly revitalised the mainstream thriller. Do we want the dream team to risk sullying their legacy by making a fourth, or are we keen to see Jason Bourne run for his life yet again?
The only thing I have heard of this is that Matt Damon would not be interested in doing a 4th..
Matt Damon won't do a fourth "Bourne," he said: "We have ridden that horse as far as we can." He admitted to feeling like "a bit of a prostitute for putting out two number threes in one year."
The two number threes being Bourne and Oceans..
I really like the Bourne franchise but I think leave it be now.. or it will just become ridiculous, money making films like the Terminator franchise had become.
I've read the novels which are very good. Damon has done very well in the role. Not very surprised at all that there will be a fourth. As a matter of fact I won't be surprised if after this one is successful than another planned trilogy will be made.
I hope so. Bond has gone stale, and even the brilliant first half of Casino Royale and great casting of Daniel Craig can't help a sinking ship for long.
Shame Paddy Considine is dead in the Bourne franchise though. The Guardian probably loved the fact that they were shown as a brave paper trying to get the truth.
I think they should let it lie. I'll go and see it if they do release it, of course. But it could end up as one of those things when the quality suffers due to sequel after sequel. I think the only thing it hasn't happened with was the Bond films, which have always been shit.
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