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Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows. (synopsis via Screenrant)
You know his name … and now so does he.
Fully aware of who he is, the slowly-dismantling amnesia of the first three films long gone – the fourth excellent instalment of the franchise starring Jeremy Renner, The Bourne Legacy, filled in many of the blanks for the audience – Bourne is now ready in Jason Bourne to take the fight to those who made his life, one lived in the shadows to great cost, such a living unknown hell.
It’s the completion of the steps taken in the initial trilogy noted Matt Damon who plays the titular spy, in an interview with EW:
“This is the completion of this journey that started in the Bourne Identity. It’s part of the first three [movies], it’s not a whole new chapter. It feels like the conclusion, even though we’re not saying it’s the conclusion, it feels like the conclusion of my identity journey. It goes deeper than Ultimatum, basically.”
And as a new TV spot dropped during the Superbowl, we get a sense of what’s in store for the robustly muscular, tenacious spy who simply won’t take no for an answer.
He is joined in his fourth outing by some pretty big names too, says Screenrant.
“Jason Bourne will see the addition of Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) to the cast, as well as the return of Julia Stiles – who previously starred alongside Damon in the first three Bourne films.”
So Damon back. Bourne back. And the intelligent fight for justice back. All is well and Bourne will make sure it stays that way no doubt, determined to keep the control of his life he fought so hard to gain.
Jason Bourne hits the streets on 28 July in Australia and 29 July in USA.