So at the moment it looks like, if anything, Jason Bourne will receive a sequel before The Bourne Legacy does.The Jason Bourne franchise, which was launched with the premiere of The Bourne Identity in 2002, created a new and exciting spy franchise for the new millennium and also simultaneously catapulted its star, Matt Damon, into movie stardom. The film released last year and, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it turned out much more commercially successful than Renner's film. Furthermore, Lin had since moved on to direct Star Trek Beyond and is busy developing the upcoming Space Jam sequel.Īlthough it initially looked like The Bourne Legacy sequel was going to happen, Universal decided to pursue Jason Bourne instead, with Damon reprising his role as the eponymous character and Greengrass returning to direct. Unfortunately, the actor has since been preoccupied with The Avengers and Mission: Impossible franchises, along with the many other movies he's involved with. The core idea behind the spin-off was to see how Bourne affected the other operatives involved with the CIA's black ops programs, namely Treadstone and Blackbriar, and Renner's character was their way of doing that. Lin recently gave an update on the project to IGN, in which he downplayed hopes that the movie will release anytime soon, despite still being in development. However, the movie has since remained on the back burner - and it doesn't look like there are any immediate plans to get the project going. Related: Jason Bourne 6 May Happenįast & Furious director Justin Lin boarded The Bourne Legacy sequel in 2013, with a tentative release date originally scheduled for August 2015. Although it wasn't nearly as well received as the other movies in the series, it did manage to rake in $276 million globally, thus convincing the studio to pursue another installment. The movie's name was taken from Van Lustbader's The Bourne Legacy - the first book in the author's continuation novel series - though its plot and characters were original creations. The Bourne Legacy was the franchise's first spin-off movie, and there were hopes that Renner, who played the lead character Aaron Cross, would take over for Damon, who had decided not to return for the fourth movie once Greengrass had departed the franchise.
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