Amen! Bosco Bosco wrote: > Someone please stop them. Like RIGHT NOW before they spawn this > pointless atrocity. > > Bosco > --- "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> New Bourne to Make Four >> By Natalie Finn >> Universal is opting to keep Jason Bourne on the run. >> http://tinyurl.com/yrrg5r >> >> Their ears ringing with the sound of three Oscar wins for the >> Bourne >> Ultimatum, Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass have reportedly >> committed to add a fourth film to the critically acclaimed action >> franchise. >> >> Per Daily Variety, Damon and Greengrass, who took over from Bourne >> Identity director Doug Liman to helm the second and third >> installments >> in the series, are on board but because of prior commitments it >> could be >> a few years before cameras start rolling. >> >> That should give producers time to figure out Bourne's next step, >> considering late author Robert Ludlum penned only three bestselling >> >> novels about the amnesiac secret agent on the hunt for the shady >> figures >> who turned him into a steely killing machine. Two sequels by Eric >> Van >> Lustbader, The Bourne Legacy and The Bourne Betrayal, haven't been >> reviewed quite so kindly. >> >> Damon, for one, didn't seem too excited about his character's >> future >> prospects after Ultimatum's mystery-resolving (yet helpfully >> open-ended) >> denouement. >> >> "I just don't see what story you could do that would feel right,'' >> the >> 37-year-old actor told Entertainment Weekly in August shortly after >> the >> third film hit theaters. ''It's not like you can bump him on the >> head >> again and give him amnesia. Someone suggested we could do one where >> >> Bourne loses his car keys...If that's what they're coming up with, >> maybe >> a break isn't a bad idea." >> >> The reigning Sexiest Man Alive and Sarah Silverman's video boy-toy >> said >> that if there was another Bourne movie it should come after >> audiences >> have had a chance to catch their collective breath. Or raise >> children. >> >> ''I think the way you could do a number four is to do it in, like, >> 10 >> years," Damon, who at the time also joked on The Daily Show that >> the >> next film would have to be called The Bourne Redundancy, said. >> >> ''The studio obviously wants to keep it alive. I mean, look, >> Universal >> is owned by GE. When they sell a refrigerator that works, they want >> to >> try to sell more of them. But from the creative side,this is >> definitely >> the end of the story of this guy's search for his identity.'' >> >> Greengrass said it would be the audience that ultimately decided >> whether >> another film should get made. And moviegoers acted accordingly, >> shelling >> out $443 million to bring the franchise box office total to $945 >> million >> worldwide. >> >> Critics have also been particularly kind to the franchise, singling >> out >> Damon's performance, the direction and other fine qualities that >> have >> made the films stand out in Hollywood, where big-studio action >> movies >> usually mean noise, violence, crummy dialogue and little else. >> >> At Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, Christopher Rouse took home >> the >> statute for film editing for The Bourne Ultimatum, while the teams >> of >> Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis and Karen Baker Landers >> and >> Per Hallberg won for sound mixing and sound editing, respectively. >> >> Damon also snatched the Favorite Male Action Star crown away from >> perennial pirate Johnny Depp at this year's People's Choice Awards. >> >> But long before Jason Bourne dries off from that swim in the East >> River, >> Damon will film the corporate thriller The Informers for director >> Steven >> Soderbergh. He is also in talks to star in Clint Eastwood's next >> project, The Human Factor, a look at Nelson Mandela's life in >> post-apartheid South Africa. >> >> Greengrass, meanwhile, will be busy prepping his Vietnam War drama >> They >> Marched into Sunlight and putting the finishing touches on Green >> Zone, >> based on journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book about the CIA's >> hunt for >> nuclear weapons in Iraq, Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Damon >> stars >> in the thriller, along with Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan. >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> > > > I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead. > I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said. > > You know these things that happen, > That's just the way it's supposed to be. > And I can't help but wonder, > Don't ya know it coulda been me. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
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