Matt Damon Wants New Jason Bourne Movie to 'Be Like the First 3' as Work With Conclave Director Continues

Just arsenic The Odyssey makes landfall, prima Matt Damon has offered an update connected his caller Jason Bourne movie with Conclave and All Quiet connected the Western Front manager Edward Berger.

The histrion touched connected the aboriginal of his beloved enactment leader during a speech connected ESPN's The Rich Eisen Show. In betwixt moving with Christopher Nolan and teasing different Oceans movie, helium said he's been moving with Berger to revisit the Bourne franchise.

"There's a large manager named Ed Berger – helium did All Quiet connected the Western Front," Damon said. "He's a fantastic director, and we're talking astir it," Damon said. "We're conscionable trying to fig it out. We're trying to nail the communicative down due to the fact that I'd emotion to bash it. It's conscionable that happening where, if we bash it, we privation it to beryllium similar the archetypal three."

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Damon archetypal played Jason Bourne successful Doug Liman's The Bourne Identity successful 2002. He's since shown up for 3 sequels: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Jason Bourne (2016). The lone introduction helium skipped retired connected starring successful was The Bourne Legacy, which was directed by Andor mastermind Tony Gilroy and starred Avengers seasoned Jeremy Renner.

That would marque the caller movie Jason Bourne 6 arsenic agelong arsenic things advancement smoothly. Word of a revival for the franchise primitively arrived successful 2023, with archetypal details promising Berger's engagement but not needfully Damon's. Universal past picked up the rights successful 2025, but arsenic clip has passed, it's present been 10 years without a due entry. Damon is hoping they "can ace it," saying that helium thinks they "have a enactment of show connected however to bash it."

"It's pugnacious due to the fact that it's not built similar a James Bond, wherever each movie is its ain mission," helium said. "People tin adjacent alteration the idiosyncratic playing Bond. It's a linear story, truthful it makes it much challenging to bash a sequel wherever you're giving radical what they want, but besides capable caller stuff. It's a tricky one."

Damon hasn't precisely had excessively overmuch escaped clip to marque Jason Bourne his priority. This weekend, helium helped motorboat Nolan's The Odyssey, which helium stars successful arsenic Odysseus. He besides showed up successful 2023's Oppenheimer and was featured successful salient roles successful projects similar Ford v Ferrari, The Last Duel, Air, and The Rip.

While the adjacent Jason Bourne movie comes together, you tin work IGN's 7/10 reappraisal for the 2016 installment. We praised the movie astatine the clip but said it failed "to deed the dizzying tallness of films 1-3."

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