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A new movie in the Bourne franchise is in the works with Academy Award-winning director Edward Berger attached to direct.
Berger most recently directed the 2022 Netflix film All Quiet on the Western Front, which won Best International Film at the Oscars. Berger has also directed the German films Jack in 2014 and All My Loving in 2019. Berger has also directed the yet-to-be-released thriller film Conclave, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow.
At this time, Matt Damon — who has featured in four out of the five Bourne movies thus far, the most recent of which being Jason Bourne in 2016 — is not officially attached to the project.
According to Deadline, Damon “would be approached first to return in the iconic role once a script is finished.”
.As always, everything has to be executed perfectly for Damon to even consider coming back to the franchise, and that starts with a great script and story. So as of right now no commitment from him until all of that is in place. [via Deadline]
It would certainly be interesting to see if the film went forward without Damon’s involvement, as the studio already tried that before with 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, which starred Jeremy Renner. Four years later, though, it was back to Damon.
The Bourne franchise began in 2002 with The Bourne Identity and immediately turned Matt Damon into a movie star (while he was already an A-lister, the first Bourne film completely changed the perception of him, as evidenced by that one joke in The 40-Year-Old Virgin).
Additional films in the franchise include The Bourne Supremacy in 2004 and The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007.
Across the four films — which have featured Doug Liman, Paul Greengrass, and Tony Gilroy as its directors — the Bourne franchise has earned over $1.6 billion at the global box office.