Matt Damon Shares New Bourne 5 Info

Semi-spoiler-y details on a couple of set pieces and more.

by Dan Woburn
Matt Damon sat down with Variety to discuss filming on the next Bourne film, tentatively known as 'Untitled Matt Damon/Bourne Sequel' on IMDb (expect that title to change). Damon didn't hold back with details of some of the big action set-pieces in the film, which is rather surprising, but then again he's 45 years old and clearly does not give a f*ck.
"We were in Tenerife, which is supposed to be Athens. It would be like a nighttime riot scene to kind of start the movie. And then England, Berlin a little bit for about a week, and a little bit in D.C. Then we€™re going to Vegas for the third act€ Big car chase on the strip.€
All of that sounds great, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like much more of a globe-trotting adventure than the other Bourne films; they're definitely hitting a lot more locations worldwide this time out. He also offered some info on the timeline of the movie;
"Yeah. Because you€™ll find the character €” like The Bourne Ultimatum, the third act actually in the movie dovetails with the third act of The Bourne Supremacy. So technically when the Bourne character disappears, it€™s still 2004. So when this next one comes out in €™16, it will have been 12 years €” in movie years €” that the character has been off the grid. So what€™s happened in those intervening years gives you a story."
The gap in time is interesting, as the world and its political climate has obviously changed a lot over the last twelve years - we're in this post-Snowden, post-Arab Spring scenario where everything has monumentally shifted, and it'll be interesting to see what Jason Bourne's place in this brave new world is. I think audiences are definitely ready for some more Jason Bourne, if only to wash the bad taste out of The Bourne Legacy out. They've missed a trick by not having Jeremy Renner back along for the ride to reprise his role from that film though; as aggressively mediocre as Legacy was, it still would've been a neat team-up to see. Bourne 5 is released on 28 July 2016.
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