The Bourne Legacy (Bourne 4)

Director Paul Greengrass has reportedly walked away from the fourth Bourne movie due to disagreements regarding the script and budget concerns.

Without seeking Greengrass's approval, Universal hired Josh Zetumer to rewrite George Nolfi's screenplay for the next Bourne thriller, reports The Playlist. It is thought that this move as well as Universal's worries over the helmer's budget-management skills contributed to his departure.

The price tag on Greengrass's forthcoming Green Zone has apparently swelled to almost $150m (£91m) due to reshoots.

The filmmaker directed 2004's The Bourne Supremacy and 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum. Both films starred Matt Damon in the lead role.

The next ‘Bourne’ movie will be a sequel, it has emerged.

The action movie series, which starred Matt Damon as troubled character Jason Bourne, will be returning with a fourth movie, and new reports claim it will be a sequel, and not a prequel as was previously claimed.

According to Variety and Deadline.com, Universal Studios has hired Tony Gilroy – who wrote the first three movies in the series – to pen a fourth script, tentatively titled ‘The Bourne Legacy’.

Damon previously claimed he would return to work on ‘Bourne’ again, but only if a fifth film is made.

He said: “There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one. We’re probably about five years away.”

The 39-year-old actor also admitted he would not want to work on the franchise if he could not do it with director Paul Greengrass.

He said: “I’m certainly not going to do it without him. Paul said he won’t do it now... but if we could crack it, find out where the character could go, we’d do it right away. But it has to be something we’d be excited about.”

Bourne producer Frank Marshall has announced that the fourth film will be called The Bourne Legacy, adding that Tony Gilroy, the writer for the first three films, will return. The screenwriter will put together the treatment for the project, Marshall announced on Twitter, leading to suggestions that Gilroy will also write the script.

The return of star Matt Damon is in doubt, after the actor announced he would only work on a fourth film if original director Paul Greengrass was involved – however, he left the project earlier this year.

Writer Gilroy is also rumoured to be replacing Greengrass in the director's chair after he helmed 2007's Michael Clayton and 2009's Duplicity.

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Tony Gilroy has revealed that Matt Damon's Jason Bourne character won't appear in The Bourne Legacy.

The Michael Clayton helmer, who penned scripts for each of the three Bourne films and will write and direct Legacy, shed light on the latest franchise entry to Hollywood Elsewhere.

"This is not a reboot or a recast or a prequel," he said. "No one's replacing Matt Damon. There will be a whole new hero, a whole new chapter… this is a stand-alone project."

Gilroy continued: "Jason Bourne will not be in this film, but he's very much alive. What happened in the first three films is the trigger for what happens.

"I'm building a legend and an environment and a wider conspiracy...the world we're making enhances and advances and invites Jason Bourne's return [down the road]."

Gilroy added that Bourne Legacy will show audiences "the bigger picture, the bigger canvas" surrounding Jason Bourne's actions in the previous movies.

The Bourne Legacy is due to arrive in cinemas in 2012.

agree

if theres no Matt Damon and its a different story all together there surely its not a 4th Bourne, or did i miss something!