Matt Damon Offers BOURNE 5 Update and Teases Action
Matt Damn and director Paul Greengrass are currently in production on Bourne 5. There's still a lot that we don't know about the film, but during a recent interview with Variety, Damon opened up about where the production stands. In the process, he teases some of the action that we'll see in the movie.
“We’re, like, probably about halfway through. We started in September but they’re going dark for most of December and cutting basically the first two acts. And then we have the third act and then whatever we owe from the first two acts…We were in Tenerife, which is supposed to be Athens. It would be like a nighttime riot scene to kind of start the movie. And then England, Berlin a little bit for about a week, and a little bit in D.C. Then we’re going to Vegas for the third act…Big car chase on the strip.”
It wouldn't be a proper Bourne film without a big car chase scene! Damon goes on to talk about the timeline in the franchise and reveals that Jason Bourne has been off the grid for a pretty long time.
“You’ll find the character — like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' the third act actually in the movie dovetails with the third act of 'The Bourne Supremacy.' So technically when the Bourne character disappears, it’s still 2004. So when this next one comes out in ’16, it will have been 12 years — in movie years — that the character as been off the grid. So what’s happened in those intervening years gives you a story.”
The movie will answer the questions of where Bourne has been, what’s he's been doing, and what gets him back into action again. Damon previously said this about the movie:
"Without giving too much of it away, it’s Bourne through an austerity-riddled Europe and in a post-Snowden world. It seems like enough has changed, you know? There are all these kinds of arguments about spying and civil liberties and the nature of democracy."
Julia Stiles will be reprising her franchise role and Alicia Vikander is also set to star alongside franchise newcomers Tommy Lee Jones, Riz Ahmed, Vincent Cassell, and Scott Shepherd. Jones is said to be playing a high-ranking CIA official and Cassell will be taking on the role of the villain. That villain is an assassin who's tracking down Jason Bourne.
The film opens in theaters on July 29th, 2016.