Niet lang geleden werd bekend dat regisseur Paul Greengrass geen zin had in een vierde Bourne. Greengrass regisseerde de laatste twee delen van de trilogie. Ook Matt Damon stapte uit het project omdat hij het alleen wilde doen met Greengrass. Samen zijn ze nu hun nieuwe film Green Zone aan het promoten.

Op de websites CHUD en Coming Soon staan quotes van de regisseur:

CHUD: When I was honest with myself last Autumn, and I was starting to get going on other things, you just come to a point where you realize you’ve done it. You don’t have anything more to contribute to a franchise that needs to continue obviously, and in order to continue, a franchise needs to be rebooted and reenergized by new perspectives.

Coming Soon: I think they have a good way to do a prequel with someone else, and basically make it about the Bourne identity, the actual identity. Any studio is interested in making it an evergreen that can just go on and on and on, and it never will with our character because he’s resolved his issues now. He’s got his memory back three times now. I don’t think anybody wants to see me say ‘I don’t remember’ again, but I think what we could do is that you can do some movies with another actor, anyone, whether it’s Ryan Gosling or Russell Crowe or Denzel Washington, and he’s Jason Bourne, and at the end of his one or two or three movies, you see them getting ready to pass the identity onto me, so it just becomes like a 007, it becomes the name that they give this certain person who is uniquely positioned.

De termen reboot en prequel zijn gevallen. Hier weet Hollywood tegenwoordig wel raad mee!