“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.

Warner Bros’ “Watchmen” in Serious Legal Trouble

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A judge has denied a Warner Bros motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s lawsuit over Warners’ right to make a film based on the graphic novel “Watchmen.”

The ruling is a huge victory for Fox, which may end up as being a profit participant in the film. Fox retained the rights to the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which the studio originally purchased in 1991. When producer David Gordon picked up the option on the project out of turnaround in 1994, the judge ruled, he never excersised that option for Fox’s remaining interest in the film, therefore, Fox’s rights to the film should still be intact.

Project, which has been in development for two decades, finally began lensing in September with Zack Snyder at the helm. Warners was set to release the film, which stars Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley, on March 6th in the same slot in which “300” opened. Read the rest of this entry

Matt Damon’s New Movie ‘Green Zone’ Uses Real Soldiers

Hollywood has made movies about the war in Iraq before.

But a new movie ‘Green Zone’ is blurring the lines between art and life by using US soldiers, who have served time in the Middle East - as actors.

‘Green Zone’ is an upcoming thriller film written and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

It stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, and Greg Kinnear. Production began in January 2008 in Spain and will move on to Morocco. A release date has yet to be determined.

Matt Damon portrays an officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for weapons of mass destruction.

Damon joined the film with the assurance that production would conclude by April 14, 2008 so he could start working on the Steven Soderbergh film ‘The Informant’ on April 15, amidst the scheduling difficulties caused by Writers Guild of America strike.

Amy Ryan plays a foreign correspondent for The New York Times who investigates the U.S.

Update:

Photos from the Central London set of Paul Greengrass’s “Green Zone” (Matt Damon)

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.