Bourne 5 Updates: Matt Damon’s getting the role; Jeremmy Renner got ditched?

By Staff Reporter

May 06, 2015 12:15 PM EDT

Matt Damon will be returning to the Bourne franchise in 2016, in a new installment (currently referred to as Bourne 5) that he's co-writing with his Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director, Paul Greengrass.

He'll also be returning to action in one of his most iconic roles, that of Jason Bourne. A couple of months ago, it was reported that Damon would once again portray the super-spy in Bourne 5, with his old friend Paul Greengrass back in the director's chair. The caveat there was that the duo was "in talks," meaning that things could have theoretically fallen through, but that's not the case. Damon has now confirmed he will be back.

Taking into account Robert Ludlum's novel arrangement, The Bourne Identity conveyed a quality global spy thriller - regardless of an modest spending plan and generally specialty source material. The principal section in the arrangement was an astonishment hit in America, which was in-charge of over a large portion of the film's $214 million overall gross.

The Supremacy spin-off enhanced the first in ticket deals, solidifying star Matt Damon as an American James Bond, and with gathering of people's prepared for additional, the arrangement's third passage raked in over $442 million universally.

Nonetheless, Marshall at the end of the day underscored that another portion with Jeremy Renner's Aaron Cross (from The Bourne Legacy) hasn't been deserted and that the Bourne establishment is currently on "discrete tracks." He additionally said, in a plainly obvious design, that "We don't have arranges [for a hybrid film]" at this time; however, Marshall didn't discount the likelihood of Damon and Renner co-mooring a Bourne motion picture one day (something he's likewise communicated enthusiasm for amid meetings in years past).

That is urging to listen, subsequent to Renner as Cross could make for a convincing foil to Damon in a future enterprise set in the Bourne universe. How and/or if that happens, obviously, will rely on upon what happens in Greengrass' up and coming Bourne film as far as story advancement; also, what the gathering is similar to from faultfinders/moviegoers.

In spite of disappointing surveys, the Bourne Legacy, a twist off featuring Jeremy Renner, was fiscally effective - bringing the establishment's aggregate film industry take to $1.2 billion (throughout the span of a solitary decade.

Matt Damon's upcoming 'Bourne 5' film that was originally slated for a July 15, 2016 release date has been delayed two weeks and is now set on July 29.

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