Those were things we’d discussed in the past, vis a vis other narratives, but that, to me, made sense that you could take a character like Bourne who, at his heart is looking for answers in a complex world, and put him in that kind of territory and we’d be in a really interesting place. He and I have very similar interests dramatically about the changing complex in the contemporary world and the technological revolution and surveillance state and all that kind of stuff. So I would say that I just piqued his interest a little bit and told him what I thought, which was a lot of the things we’d been talking about.
The only way he’s going to make a film is if he believes there’s really a a film to be made there. He’s just an incredibly truthful, self-motivated artist and it wouldn’t matter if I made a compelling case to him politically or the studio or anybody else. Well, I don’t think anybody could get Paul back, I don’t think that’s how Paul works.
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Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in Jason Bourne So if Paul wasn’t interested in doing a Bourne movie until you came up with some ideas, are you the one that got him to come back? So he and I sat down and started writing it properly together. Paul was pretty skeptical at first but he said, “if you really believe that, then why don’t you do some exploration and let’s see where you get to.” And he and Matt and producer Frank Marshall encouraged me to do that and I guess I got far enough down the road where Paul became enthusiastic and believed there was something to be had there. He and I talked about writing something together for a long time but we never landed on anything, but then about two years ago I called him up and said some of the areas that he and I had been discussing would be really fertile territory for a Bourne film. How did you and Paul Greengrass decide to write this movie together? My father was a screenwriter and I’ve written since I was a kid, but this is the first time that I’ve written something from scratch that was made into a film where I was credited. Well, I’d written on a lot of different projects where I’d edited, you know contributed writing under the radar and I’ve written screenplays myself that hadn’t sold. Image by Martin Coehn You’ve worked primarily as an editor. While this entry into the franchise continues Bourne’s attempt to unravel his past, Rouse and Greengrass also work in some pressing issues of the day, as Bourne adjusts to a world where cyber security seems less and less secure and there seems to be no escape from the watchful eyes of CCTV cameras.Ĭreative Screenwriting spoke with him about working with Paul Greengrass, how editing helps him write, and the difficulties of crafting dialogue for Jason Bourne.
Joining Damon is Julia Stiles, reprising her role as Bourne’s CIA contact Nicky Parsons, Alicia Wikander as Heather Lee, as CIA agent who may be sympathetic to Bourne’s plight, and Tommy Lee Jones as CIA director Robert Dewey. Jason Bourne sees Damon return as the seminal secret agent, whose past continues to haunt him all these many years later. The son of a screenwriter, Rouse has also been working as an editor since the 1990s, but it’s his continual collaboration with Greengrass that led to him writing his first credited screenplay. Two years ago, Greengrass and Damon announced they would return to the franchise after a long hiatus, with Greengrass writing with his longtime editor Christopher Rouse.įor Rouse, who won an Academy Award for his work on The Bourne Ultimatum and has been with the franchise since the beginning with 2002’s The Bourne Identity (though he skipped Legacy), Jason Bourne is no stranger.
The franchise continued without him, actor Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass with 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, which saw Jeremy Renner take over as new operative Aaron Cross. It’s been nine years since Jason Bourne has graced movie screens, seemingly finishing his cinematic journey in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum.
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