“Bourne 4″ Moving Ahead With Nolfi Penning

Universal is moving forward with a fourth Jason Bourne movie, tentatively titled “Bourne 4“. The Bourne Ultimatum writer George Nolfi has been hired to pen the sequel. Nolfi’s other credits include The Sentinel, Ocean’s Twelve and Timeline.

Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon are attached to the new film. The film will be produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison.

This Bourne movie may still however, end up being significantly different from the others. The first three movies were loosely based on a series of books by Robert Ludlum. There is a fourth book, but it wasn’t written by Ludlum and back in June, producer Frank Marshall indicated they’d ignore the fourth book and go their own direction with the series. At the time, he hinted that Bourne may be skipping out on his European locales for a trip to South America, and if previous talk turns out to be true, they should start shooting it this coming summer.

The first three films have brought in a combined total of $524 million at the domestic box-office.

Filming Matt Damon On The Bed, On The Floor, On a Towel By The Door…

…In the tub, in the car, up against the mini-bar…

Well, OK…Enough!
Though it was hinted earlier that “The Bourne Ultimatum” would be the last of Bourne’s film series, it is reported that Matt Damon is going to once again reprise his role as Jason Bourne.

According to Variety, Matt Damon has been signed by Universal Pictures to do the fourth film ‘Untitled Bourne 4 Project’.

Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David Linde managed to persuade the movie star to play his iconic character once again. Variety also reported that Universal have also landed helmer Paul Greengrass, the director of ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ and ‘Ultimatum’, to direct the fourth project.

Prior to the outing of the fourth Bourne’s project, the third film’s franchise has been awarded with three Oscars for Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing at the 80th Annual Academy Awards.

Aside from winning Oscar, the film that is starred by Damon, Julia Stiles and David Strathairn has also earned a commercial success earning $227.5 million domestically and $442.9 worldwide.