Well, the writing has been on the wall for this one for a while. Latino Review reported a few months back that Matt Damon was circling a return to the ‘Bourne’ series. After all, the movie was suddenly delayed an entire year just a few months ago. Before the piece could get much traction, longtime ‘Bourne’ producer Frank Marshall poured water over the whole rumor. But there were reasons for that.
For one, Jeremy Renner’s agents were blindsided by the news and nothing was signed or confirmed; Damon at the time was just open to the conversation. Marshall had to deny everything or upset a lot of people. Frankly, we’ve been hearing the same thing for months now (our ‘Bourne’ sources were the ones that helped us break the fact that Paul Greengrass was leaving the series way back when).
Part of the delay was that Damon needed script approval and he wasn’t about to sign on to just any old ‘Bourne’ story. Which is why the film was delayed an entire year. The first script...
