Producer Frank Marshall Has No Plans For A BOURNE Crossover With Damon and Renner

I enjoyed about 65% of The Bourne Legacy, the Jeremy Renner-starring spin-off of the original Bourne trilogy. The entire third act was a complete joke, but I was with it up until that point, and I thought it did a pretty good job pulling back the curtain to reveal some larger scheming and machinations that had been going on during the events of the first three films. Universal was all set to put out a sequel to that film with Justin Lin on board to direct, but against all odds, they were able to convince Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon to return to reprise their roles as director and star (respectively) in a brand new Bourne film, so the Legacy sequel was pushed back.

Considering that the two films already share the same cinematic universe (something that's all the rage in Hollywood right now), and that you have two Oscar-caliber actors attached in lead roles, common sense would point to a crossover film in which Jason Bourne (or David Webb, if you want to get technical about it) meets up with Renner's Aaron Cross character. But apparently mega-producer Frank Marshall disagrees with that notion, because he just gave an interview with Collider that essentially says it's not going to happen.

Are there still plans for [Bourne and Cross] to eventually meet and have a movie together?

MARSHALL:  We don’t have plans for that.  You never know.  I never say never.  But that’s not the plan.  They’re on separate tracks.

Marshall has been known to keep things extremely close to the vest before, going as far as to straight-up deny the idea of Greengrass and Damon returning even though he knew damn well they were in talks to come back. Is he trying to throw everyone off the trail with this, maybe in the hopes to surprise people with a Renner cameo in Bourne 5 that leads into a new movie? Or is he actually serious? And if it's the latter option...why? Why wouldn't you have plans to cross these two characters over into the same movie? I guess we'll have to wait and see what he has in store for us, but I wouldn't put too much stock in Marshall's claims. I'm guessing we'll see these two on screen together before the decade is over.