Last time Bourne Identity star Matt Damon was out doing press rounds, he had yet to see the action franchise's latest installment, The Bourne Legacy, which starred Jeremy Renner in his stead. Now, though, the actor has apparently given the film a watch, although it sounds like it will be even more difficult for him to re-enter the series as a result.
"I did see it," Damon told The Playlist. When asked what he though of the film, he replied, "I think it's going to make it harder for us to make another one. I'm just trying to figure out like... Because they used our characters, anything that happens in that world, that's the Bourne world now. So the pill popping and all that stuff happens." The pill popping Damon is referring to is the drug enhancement subplot featuring Renner's character.
Damon was also posed the big question: What about doing another movie with Renner? To that, the actor sounded even less optimistic. "I don't know what that story would be," he said. "I love Jeremy and I'm a huge fan of him and I know him personally and love him outside of work, too. But I just don't know what that story would be. I could never see Bourne teaming up with anyone. And all he said was -- he wanted out, he wanted out, he wanted out. So how do you get that character going again?"
Damon noted this was the same issue they were confronted with when a fourth film was originally proposed. "Literally, we couldn't figure out how to do it three years ago," he said. "[The studio] said to us, 'Why don't you guys do one?' And we said, 'We don't know what to do!' So once they realized we weren't going to solve that problem, they went a totally different way."
So, for now, it sounds like Damon is off the franchise. That is, until they can think of a good reason to bring back Jason Bourne.
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