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Based on that film, Greengrass was hired to direct 2004's The Bourne Supremacy, a sequel to the 2002 film The Bourne Identity. The first film's director, Doug Liman, had left the project. The film starred Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, an amnesiac who realises he was once a top CIA assassin and is being pursued by his former employers. An ...
Jul 29, 2016 · Director Paul Greengrass didn’t kick off the Jason Bourne franchise, but he’s certainly made it his own. Over the course of sequels like The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, the...
Aug 13, 2007 · Bourne director Paul Greengrass on the chaos of directing his favourite spy, and making 'indie' blockbusters.
Jul 12, 2016 · As late as 2013, Mr. Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” insisted he had no desire to return to the Universal Pictures franchise inspired by the...
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Director Paul Greengrass Was Also Ready To Move On
It was certainly surprising that Matt Damon was replaced by Jeremy Renner for The Bourne Legacy, especially as it strayed from Ludlum’s novels. Damon was the one who decided to leave the franchise, and he had a number of reasons for doing so. Mainly, the actor felt the Bournefranchise had run out of road for his character. By the end of The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne had fully recovered his memory and dealt with the corrupt CIA officials trying to get rid of him. Bourne would have needed...
Damon Reprised His Role Nearly A Decade Later
In 2016, nine years after Damon’s last appearance as Jason Bourne, both Greengrass and Matt Damon returned for the fifth, and potentially final, Bourne movie, Jason Bourne. Universal Pictures was keen to get Damon and Greengrass back and felt there was more to Jason Bourne’s story. Damon was in conversation the studio and had realized he was not as done with Bourne as he thought he was. The actor also spoke to Greengrass who, fortunately, decided to come up with ideas for another film, and th...
Jason Bourne's Absence Was Felt
Despite Jeremy Renner being an Oscar-nominated actor who was proving himself a franchise star as well with the Mission: Impossible movies and his time as Hawkeye in the MCU, fans did not seem overly interested in a Bourne movie that did not have Jason Bourne in it. Matt Damon's Bourne movies exposed a wider universe that explored some intriguing ideas about surveillance, but in the end, the character of Jason Bourne was really the best part of these movies. Renner's The Bourne Legacy was a so...
Jason Bourne is a 2016 American action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and written by Greengrass and Christopher Rouse. It is the fifth installment of the Bourne film series and a direct sequel to The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
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Jul 27, 2016 · Next came the chance to direct “The Bourne Supremacy”, a sequel to Doug Liman’s hit, “The Bourne Identity”. The offer came as a shock to Mr Greengrass.
