Bourne 5 Will Be A Continuation of Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne’s Story, But Sequel to Jeremy Renner’s The Bourne Legacy Film Still a Go

Bourne 5 Will Be A Continuation of Matt Damon's Jason Bourne's Story, But Sequel to Jeremy Renner's The Bourne Legacy Film Still a Go

Bourne 5 is still scheduled for release to theaters on July 15, 2016, according to an official announcement from Universal Pictures. However, that Bourne film will no longer be the follow-up movie to 2012's The Bourne Legacy which starred Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, another Treadstone agent. Instead, it will be a continuation of the original Jason Bourne saga which started with The Bourne Identity, followed by The Bourne Supremacy, then by The Bourne Ultimatum, which all starred Matt Damon.

Bourne 5 was originally scheduled for an August 14, 2015, release but was reset because, according to The Hollywood Reporter, so that the earlier date "could be used by Universal for Straight Outta Compton, the upcoming film about the rise and fall of gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A." However, according to a June post by El Mayimbe at Latino-Review, "the reason Bourne 5 got pushed to July 15, 2016 is because Matt Damon is in fact back to play his signature role as Jason Bourne for director Justin Lin!" However, Matt Damon has not changed his mind that he won't play Jason Bourne again unless Paul Greengrass also returns to direct, and they they have a good story to tell. Right now, Damon and Greengrass are in the process of developing a good story to tell.

The fifth Bourne novel is entitled "The Bourne Betrayal" so most likely the Bourne 5 movie will also be called The Bourne Betrayal following the precedent set in the four earlier Bourne films which were all named after the books on which they were based on. In "The Bourne Betrayal" novel storyline, Jason Bourne will be seen going on an unexpected mission that will have him pitted against ruthless Islamic terrorists. Damon and Greengrass may also likely borrow some key elements from the book for their movie version given its relevance to the reality of present day concerns about the threat of the ISIS movements all across the globe.

Even though Bourne 5 will now be a continuation of the original Jason Bourne story, the Jeremy Renner-starrer sequel to The Bourne Legacy movie is still a go as far as Universal is concerned, but it will be given a different release date. The film which is still at the development stage will be directed by Justin Lin, who is anyway currently still busy directing for the True Detectives TV series, based on a script to be written by Andrew Baldwin from a draft previously done by Anthony Peckham. Frank Marshall is producing with Jeffrey Weiner, Ben Smith and director Lin. In a talk with Crave Online, Renner confirmed that "it's still moving. Yeah, it's still moving. We have our director who's actually run off to do the "True Detective" series right now, and then while that's happening they're finishing writing the script."

 

 

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