Tony Gilroy he recently spent his time playing for the Star Wars universe with A rogue one AND Andor. He did a great job writing for the Star Wars franchise, but before jumping into that sandbox he worked on scripts for The Bourne identity, Bourne supremacy, The Bourne UltimatumAND The Bourne Legacy.
That fourth film came out in 2012 and starred Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, who was supposed to take over the franchise later Matt Damon he was done playing Jason Bourne in those first three movies. The Bourne Legacy ended up receiving mixed reviews and a few years after its release Damon returned to the franchise for the 2016 film Jason Bourn.
Well, when Gilroy wrote The Bourne Legacy, the whole plan was to create a Marvel-like cinematic universe, but the studio wasn’t interested. He explained:
“Look, man, I tried to give them a Marvel universe with The Bourne Legacy, and they didn’t want to take it. I mean, honestly, that was the whole goal of that, to open it up… The Bourne story is one of the stories most chaotic hits of all time. It would have been a great Hollywood book if anyone had followed it from the beginning. You could never get everyone to tell the real story, but it just stumbled to success. With Legacy, we really tried to give them, that was my goal, to give them a Marvel universe that they could open up, but there was so much bad blood and other stuff that it just didn’t work for them.”
He added:
“I mean, what’s the catch? The catch is imagination and ambition and a real — I know it’s just a cliché — but a real nuisance, you’ve gotta cut shit off like crazy. You’ve gotta flip it and say, ‘Let’s do the opposite”. Always looking, in every scene and in every moment, “What haven’t we done before? What’s new?” So you have to be really ambitious and not confident. It’s security that’s the enemy of expanding things, I think.
It actually would have been pretty cool to see a Bourne cinematic universe. I’ve enjoyed the franchise over the years and while they don’t make as much money as the Marvel movies, there are a lot of great ways the world of the franchise could have expanded.
I have no idea if we’ll see any more Bourne movies, but would you have liked to see it expand into a cinematic universe?
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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