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Paul Greengrass says if he and Matt Damon want to return to the Jason Bourne
franchise then the new characters played in Jason Bourne Alicia Vikander and Riz
Ahmed will be involved. He told The Playlist: “These franchises are really
difficult to build for all the studios, and if you’re lucky enough to have been
associated with one as I have, one that people love, you want the best for it.
Renewing it, giving it somewhere to go that feels organic as opposed to just
stuck in there, it is the hardest thing. That’s what I wanted to do. Once I
decided to do another, it became very important to me to try, with some subtlety
and elegance, to hand it back to Universal with places to go and characters that
take it forward in a way that felt elegant and not false. Alicia’s character was
part of that. Riz Ahmed’s character was, also. I wanted those characters to be
of our landscape, today. Bourne Ultimatum and Bourne Supremacy were very much
films of the mid-90s and mid-2000s. But we’re in a very different world now, and
the audience that goes to see these movies now has a different way of looking at
the world. Theirs is a world dominated by social media, and the entire digital
realm. I wanted to create characters that lived in their world, and hopefully
somebody might want to pick that up. I’m sure they will, and you’ve got places
to go with Bourne and with the other characters….it was an important part of the
creative mission for me.” Both Damon and Greengrass had said they were done with
the franchise but Damon says that since people kept asking him when he was
coming back that he felt compelled to do so. |
