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Matt Damon whitethorn beryllium suiting up pinch a Linothorax for Christopher Nolan’s hotly anticipated The Odyssey, but that doesn’t mean his tally arsenic a CIA supplier suffering from dissociative amnesia has needfully travel to a close.
In a caller question and reply pinch Parade magazine, nan Oscar-winning multi-hyphenate said he is unfastened to different introduction successful nan Bourne movie franchise — and is taking pitches for it.
“We’re ever looking to effort to get different 1 of those because we loved it, everyone who worked connected them,” Damon told the publication. “So there’s ever immoderate effort going connected to write, to travel up pinch a caller story. So if you person anything, fto america know.”
The action-thriller bid based connected writer Robert Ludlum’s novels includes 5 installments and a spinoff TV series, 2019’s short-lived Treadstone connected USA Network. The franchise kicked disconnected pinch 2002’s The Bourne Identity, helmed by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron, astir a man who awakens astatine oversea — bullet-riddled, addled and unaware of his life anterior — and discovers he is simply a CIA assassin being hunted by his peers for failing to complete his astir caller mission.
The inaugural movie was followed by The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Jason Bourne (2016). Damon did not reprise his domiciled successful nan 4th entry, which introduced a caller characteristic portrayed by Jeremy Renner.
The critically acclaimed and commercially successful films person collectively grossed much than $1.64 cardinal astatine nan world container office.
In nan latest update connected early sequels and installments down nan scenes, NBCUniversal in 2025 acquired all rights, excluding publishing, to Ludlum’s revered Jason Bourne and Treadstone book series, successful perpetuity, pursuing an extended auction.
With nan agreement, longtime Universal collaborator and storied shaper Frank Marshall will proceed to shepherd forthcoming installments, arsenic he has from nan beginning, on pinch Captivate’s Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith. Captivate has managed nan authorities for nan Ludlum property since 2001.
Outside of The Odyssey, which bows successful theaters July 17, Deadline exclusively reported that Damon is successful talks to prima successful nan untitled arena film from Everything Everywhere All At Once duo Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, besides for Universal Pictures.
