Jason Bourne - In theaters July 29, 2016

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[CONTAINER][MOVIE1]Title: Untitled Next Bourne Chapter (2016)

Genre: [GENRE]Action[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Paul Greengrass[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Matt Damon[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Tommy Lee Jones[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Julia Stiles[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Alicia Vikander[/ACTOR]

Plot: The fifth film in the Bourne franchise, and the first featuring Jason Bourne since The Bourne Ultimatum.[/MOVIE1][POSTER1]
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Just announced! JASON BOURNE IS BACK -- Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass set to return! :D
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WHAAAATTT???? !!!!!
WOOT!!!

Well, Deadline says that a story has been cracked and Universal is so excited about the prospect that the July 16th, 2016 release date that was meant for the sequel to The Bourne Legacy will instead go to this new Jason Bourne sequel. That likely means we won't see Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross coming into contact with Jason Bourne in some way, unless they figure out a way to tease The Bourne Legacy sequel as well (we've already seen how their stories overlap before now, but they've never directly crossed paths).
 
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It would be a HUGE missed opportunity to not have them team up. But I know Damon and Greengrass weren't huge fans of where Legacy went story wise... Hopefully they don't ignore it.

Wonder what happens with Justin Lin's film now? He was suppose to do a "Renner" Bourne sequel... wonder if that is scrapped now?
 
Based on what I've been reading, there will be two separate movies. As for the dates, here's an update, basically nothing's set in stone yet.

Just a couple days a go, we learned that Universal finally rounded up Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon to get together another film for the Jason Bourne franchise that kicked off in 2002 with The Bourne Identity. At the time, it was reported that the film would replace the previously set release of The Bourne Legacy sequel directed by Justin Lin and starring Jeremy Renner on July 16th, 2016, pushing back the spin-off franchise to an unknown time. However, it sounds like all these factors are still up in the air as producer Frank Marshall was asked about the status of the Legacy sequel and said, "It's still in development. We're working to get a script as soon as possible." So what's up with Jason Bourne? Read on!

Marshall told THR it's still early days on the reunion of Greengrass and Damon for more Bourne, and there's no deals in place for them yet. So the plan is for both Bourne projects to continue development and the logistics of their arrival won't be a concern until either of them is ready to go in front of a camera. The other factor in play here is that Greengrass has been working on getting the Olympic bombing drama The Ballad of Richard Jewell with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill off the ground at Fox, but the studio is still mulling over a greenlight. Some even say that this Bourne buzz might be a way for Greengrass to get Fox to finally make a decision as to whether the other project will go ahead.

So as of now, it's unclear if either film will be ready for the previously set summer 2016 release date that was specifically staked out for some kid of Bourne film. What's interesting is that THR cautions, "Let's hope Matt Damon and Jeremy Renner don't bump into each other at a restaurant." That implies that the two may not be so friendly with each other over this latest development, maybe because Universal quickly became more interested in Damon's return as Jason Bourne as opposed to Renner's spin-off franchise. That would certainly feel like a slap to the face after putting faith in the actor by casting him to begin with. Anyway, we'll just have to wait and see how all this business plays out.

 
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Matt Damon Says He's Returning to 'Bourne' for 2016 and confirms Paul Greengrass is back to direct :)

From THR


Matt Damon has confirmed he'll once again play Jason Bourne, with director Paul Greengrass back at the helm for a 2016 film.

Damon pal Ben Affleck revealed the news during a red carpet interview with E! Friday, and Damon quickly confirmed.

"It'll be in 2016 when the movie will actually come out," he told E!. "Paul Greengrass is going to do another one and that's all I ever said. I just needed him to say yes."

The Hollywood Reporter first reported Damon and Greengrass' had entered negotiations for a sequel in September after months of rumors and denials.Greengrass directed the second and third installments of the original trilogy starring Damon, The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Jeremy Renner picked up the franchise's mantle for 2012's The Bourne Legacy, and was to star in a 2016 sequel with Justin Lin to direct for Universal.

It is unclear what the Damon/Greengrass film means for the Renner project, but in September, Bourne producer Frank Marshall told THR that the project starring Renner was still alive."That movie is moving forward," insists Marshall. "It's still in development. We're working to get a script as soon as possible." Universal did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
From Buzzfeed
It has been eight years since covert super-soldier Jason Bourne disappeared at the end of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum — and it is still the most successful film in Matt Damon’s career. The Bourne Legacy continued the franchise with a new character and a new star (Jeremy Renner) in 2012, but next week, Damon will start production on the fourth film featuring Jason Bourne, due out in July 2016.

“We always looked at those movies as really about the Bush presidency, and so we kind of had to wait for the world to change,” Damon told BuzzFeed News of the lag time between films during an interview about his upcoming movie The Martian. “What does the character have to say?”

To answer that question, the 44-year-old actor said that he and director Paul Greengrass would “revisit the idea” of making another Bourne movie every few years, but it wasn’t until the NSA whistleblowing revelations from Edward Snowden that the duo came up with a new story for Jason Bourne.

An activist wears an Edward Snowden mask during a demonstration in favor of Snowden as a witness in German NSA hearings on May 8, 2014. Adam Berry / AFP / Getty Images

“Without giving too much of it away, it’s Bourne through an austerity-riddled Europe and in a post-Snowden world,” Damon said. “It seems like enough has changed, you know? There are all these kinds of arguments about spying and civil liberties and the nature of democracy.” Snowden has become a powerful figure in the debate over security versus privacy, from Washington to Europe to Asia to the Academy Awards. Sen. John McCain even said in 2013 that Snowden was seen by young Americans as “some kind of Jason Bourne.” (This December, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to star as the whistleblower in Snowden, from director Oliver Stone.)

As for the new Bourne film, actors Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) are reportedly joining the cast, and Julia Stiles is set to reprise her role of ex-CIA agent Nicky Parsons, which she’s played since 2002’s The Bourne Identity. But while Damon was reticent to reveal more details about the movie, he did hint that the new film’s exploration of national security and politics in the 21st century would be reflected in the radically different locations that will bookend the film’s story.

“We’re starting in Greece, you know, the beginning of democracy,” he said — also a nod to the country’s current financial crisis that is plaguing the greater European economy. “And the movie ends in Las Vegas, the most grotesque incarnation of….” Damon trailed off with a laugh, content to let others fill in whichever institution they’d most prefer to see Jason Bourne dismantle with just his quick wits and fleet fists.


Oh.... YEAH!!!!
 
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From EW.com
Matt Damon teases plot details for fifth 'Bourne' movie

GreengrassMatt Damon and Paul Greengrass are 'Bourne' again. Are they Hollywood's top actor/director pair?
“There’s been the financial collapse, the great recession, all these issues of cyberwarfare and civil liberties,” star and producer Damon tells EW for this week’s First Look issue.

The tumultuous present serves as the backdrop for this story, in which Bourne resumes his quest for answers about his past. “We find him in a dark and tortured place,” says the actor, who agreed to resurrect his superspy for returning director Paul Greengrass. (Neither was involved in the 2012 spin-off,The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner.)

Damon previously revealed that the fifth film in the series, based on the novels by Robert Ludlum, will pick up 12 years after Bourne’s disappearance in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), which was set in 2004.
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