Matt Damon might be sick of the character of Jason Bourne but he isn't tired of working under
Paul Greengrass, the director of the last two Bourne movies. According to
Variety, Damon has been cast in the helmer's next film about the chaos of the Iraq war for Universal Pictures. You may remember
way back in January we reported of Greengrass' involvement in the movie which is an adaptation of
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
Chandrasekaran details Bernard Keriks ludicrous attempt to train the Iraqi police and brings to light lesser known but typical travesties: the case of the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of reestablishing Baghdads stock exchange; a contractor with no previous experience paid millions to guard a closed airport; a State Department employee forced to bribe Americans to enlist their help in preventing Iraqi weapons scientists from defecting to Iran.
The movie is still currently untitled although I still think Imperial Life in the Emerald City sounds great. Even just Emerald City works. A different role for Damon and wanna that will stretch his acting far more than the Bourne franchise.