Bourne trilogy screenwriter Tony Gilroy will be directing the next installment of the franchise titled The Bourne Legacy. Apparently this fourth film will not be a reboot, or even 
a prequel recast with a younger actor.
Gilroy told Hollywood Elsewhere that The Bourne Legacy will be a continuation and part of the same chronology. However, neither Matt Damon nor his character, Jason Bourne, will be anywhere near it.
“The easiest way to think of it is an expansion or a reveal,” Gilroy says. “Jason Bourne will not be in this film, but he’s very much alive. What happened in the first three films is the trigger for what happens. I’m building a legend and an environment and a wider conspiracy…the world we’re making enhances and advances and invites Jason Bourne’s return.”
The film will not be based on Eric Van Lustbader novel of the same name, which focuses on Bourne’s life post-Bourne Ultimatum. The Bourne Legacy will tell the story of another character in the same universe, “a whole new hero” in a “stand-alone project”.
“Everything you saw in the first three films actually happened, and everyone who got into will be rewarded for paying attention. We’re going to show you the bigger picture, the bigger canvas. When you see what we’re going and see what we’re doing it’ll be pretty obvious….but Jason Bourne’s activities in the first three films is the immediate trigger”, explained Gilroy.
Well, I don’t know about you but I think Bourne trilogy was all the action I could get from 2000′s movies. I mean, sure we have Piere Morel + Luc Besson‘s Taken -which I love- but Jason Bourne equals action and I’m afraid The Bourne Legacy without its main ingredient might be boring. A friend of mine said “Gilroy should cast Tom Cruise, there’s no other way we are buying a ticket for The Bourne Legacy without Bourne/Matt Damon” and that’s pretty much what I think too.
