[Tequila Sunset]

sooooo there still is going to be a fourth one but with a different director?

i see no point anymore, they should just leave it

[MAX1210]

The point is for universal to make a shed load more cash. Combining the budget and worldwide revenue for all 3 films reads like this;

Budget for all 3 films: $245mill
Worldwide Gross Revenue: $945mill

not a bad little return, I wish I could write a best seller

I for one would go see it as I enjoyed all 3 films, I know it came to a natural end but i'm sure they'll find a way to bring him back.

[wiz]

Originally Posted by raigraphixs

Paul Greengrass on his quitting Bourne 4.

Boooo!
Can't see anyone else being as good

[bekko]

Will Matt Damon do the film if the director has left ?

[nwgarratt]

Originally Posted by bekko

Will Matt Damon do the film if the director has left ?

I read ages ago that he would only do it if Greengrass Directed.

It sounds like the fourth film is a original story. I still think it is better to leave it at number 3 with a tied up story.

[RickDastardly]

I agree totally with the previous comments about Ultimatum tying things up nicely. Empire's icons issue described it nicely with Bourne being in the water at the start of Identity and being re-born out of the water as David Webb at the end of the third. Can't see where they can really take it after that unless they could go back to the time period prior to Identity. Thats the only thing that would make sense if they were to make a 4th. As much as I dig Bourne, I'd rather see a bit more originality from the studios and not have a 4th installmant in the franchise.

[Scott_Mac]

Ludlum only wrote 3 Bourne books, but Eric Van Lustbader wrote a few more this century

Internet Book List :: Series Information:

It won't be the same without Matt Damon...

[The Snake]

The fourth Bourne movie will involve Roy Miller Bourne discovering covert and faulty intelligence to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons on Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

During the U.S. led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) Bourne and his team of Army inspectors were is dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men Bourne search searches for deadly chemical agents but stumble stumbles instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their his mission.

Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller Bourne must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

[wiz]

[MAX1210]

Originally Posted by The Snake

The fourth Bourne movie will involve Roy Miller Bourne discovering covert and faulty intelligence to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons on Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

During the U.S. led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) Bourne and his team of Army inspectors were is dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men Bourne search searches for deadly chemical agents but stumble stumbles instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their his mission.

Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller Bourne must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

ROFL at this!

[mattrixdesign2]

Originally Posted by raigraphixs

Paul Greengrass on his quitting Bourne 4.

Making a fourth was dodgy ground, loosing Paul Greengrass, who made the BEST 2 Bournes is a major loss, and they should quit whilst there are ahead.

[Jaymzee]

I belive someone should address the studio and say .... "That'll do pig, that'll do"

I dont believe Matt Damon will return if Paul Greengrass isn't onboard.

[shodan]

I love a good action movie and the Bourne films are good action movies.

However, I love the Bourne (original) trilogy more. The first one rates as my favourite thriller book of all time.
I find it difficult to enjoy the Bourne films, not because I think the books are better but because I'm SO disappointed that they didn't follow the books. Apart from some of the character names being the same, there really isn't any connection between the books and the movies. If they had followed the books then the films would be 10 times better and I find that unforgivable!

If you don't want to read the book but want to see a very close adaptation then check out The Bourne Identity starring Richard Chaimberlain and (the lovely) Jacklyn Smith. It was made sometime in the late 70's or early 80's so looks a bit dated now but it is SO close to how I imagined the book.

[raigraphixs]

Matt Damon has confirmed today he will not be making a 4th movie without Paul Greengrass at the press conference for his new film 'Invictus'.

It seems Greengrass was not excited by the current script and decided to part, so there may be a slim chance off the pair coming back to do it in the future.

How does the departure of Paul [Greengrass] influence the 4th Bourne movie?

MATT DAMON: I’ll just wait for him and when he wants to do one, we’ll do it.

Are you saying it’s Greengrass or no Bourne?

DAMON: Yeah, I’ve always said that. But I think it will happen down the road. We just don’t have a script right now.

[neroon]

I would happily lose greengrass and his bloody shaky cameras. If it wasn't for them I would rate Bourne supremacy as a superb movie, as it was I'd say just good.

[Shaun666]

Originally Posted by neroon

I would happily lose greengrass and his bloody shaky cameras. If it wasn't for them I would rate Bourne supremacy as a superb movie, as it was I'd say just good.

You beat me to it ! Would be nice if the next director can keep the camera still for a couple of seconds at least.

[raigraphixs]

THE BOURNE LEGACY (2012)

Tony Gilroy to write the fourth Bourne script, with a working title "The Bourne Legacy".

He was the key writer on The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. He will also be producing what insiders are calling the "Bourne Bible". No word yet on whether Matt Damon or Paul Greengrass will be back.

Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley are back to produce alongside Captivate Entertainment which is the Robert Ludlum estate production company led by Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith. (The pic won't be based on the book The Bourne Legacy written by Eric Lustabader in Ludlum’s series.)

[jonneymendoza]

Originally Posted by raigraphixs

THE BOURNE LEGACY (2012)

Tony Gilroy to write the fourth Bourne script, with a working title "The Bourne Legacy".

He was the key writer on The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. He will also be producing what insiders are calling the "Bourne Bible". No word yet on whether Matt Damon or Paul Greengrass will be back.

The book of this is already out as well. seen it being advertised. i wont watch it if damon and Greengrass is not in it

[Steven]

A new director perhaps, what is the point without Matt Damon? We accept it with Bond but I do not think Bourne is at all in the same boat

[Mr Original]

The Bourne Legacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting. Looks like there are lots of options for a Bourne film to follow.

"The Bourne Legacy is a 2004 spy fiction thriller written by Eric Van Lustbader. It is the fourth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum and the first to be written by Lustbader. He has also written three more novels in the series, The Bourne Betrayal, The Bourne Sanction, The Bourne Deception, with a fifth novel, The Bourne Objective slated for release in 2010."

[nwgarratt]

The films are nothing like the books. They are just using the book titles and black ops agent with amnesia.

Jason Bourne - Novels

[prvjoker]

More details on the 4th movie

Title: Re-Bourne
Tagline: re-activated, re-Bourne. Bourne to kill <cough>.

Plot: David Webb is now living a normal life as a Priest, atoning for his past sins. However a head injury sustained in an accident in the shower unlocks memories from a part of his deep subconscious that his former employers thought they had erased. Bourne is on the run from his past again.

[Steven]

Originally Posted by nwgarratt

The films are nothing like the books. They are just using the book titles and black ops agent with amnesia.

Jason Bourne - Novels

They at least need to be using the titles - have you read the post above this? Presumably a lazy summer's day at the office

[raigraphixs]

Universal has hired original Bourne franchise writer Tony Gilroy to direct the fourth installment - The Bourne Legacy. He also wrote the screenplay for Legacy. Gilroy previously directed films, 'Duplicity' & 'Michael Clayton'. I enjoyed Michael Clayton.

[Captain_Danger]

Surely with no Damon on bourde, this has no hope?

[neroon]

Originally Posted by Captain_Danger

Surely with no Damon on bourde, this has no hope?

I wouldn't say that. Losing Greengrass and hopefully those dreadful shaky cameras it could still be very good. I personally wasn't impressed with Part 3 so here's hoping for a return to form. I wonder who's going to take the lead role?

[raigraphixs]

MTV News spoke to Matt Damon at the "Green Zone" junket in March, the actor hinted that Universal (the studio behind "Bourne") could go all "Spider-Man" on the franchise and reboot it with a new face in the role.

"We see a very clear way that they could go [with the story] that wouldn't interfere with the series that we have and that might give it a chance to have a life right now and if we come back and did another one, even after that without us," he said.


In other words, this new face would be a Jason Bourne -- a government operative who assumes the spy's identity -- and not the Jason Bourne we have come to know, love and fear ... thus leaving room for the real Jason to make his big comeback at some point down the road.

[KhalJimbo]

Originally Posted by Richard

Every time I buy a box set they release another one.

That happened to me when I bought my Pirates of the Caribbean box set

[lilraul]

Originally Posted by Commander Shepard

That happened to me when I bought my Pirates of the Caribbean box set

or Terminator!

[DrPhil]

I think it's daft to try and add Bourne 4 with a different actor at this stage. As has been said you can't just make it a franchise like Bond with different Bournes all the time.

And as others have also said, stop linking the books and the films, they bear little resemblance to each other. The first Bourne book is essentially the entire "memory loss to discovery of the truth" journey that took 3 films, except it's a different truth anyway.