Bourne 5 Gets A New Writer

Universal Pictures has hired Andrew Baldwin to script the latest as yet Untitled Jason Bourne Sequel says Variety. Baldwin is a rising star among young screenwriters. He has already written “The Outsider” and “Bastille Day” starring Idris Elba, both of which are still in development.

Anthony Peckham ("Sherlock Holmes," "Invictus") had been hired to write an earlier script for the film that continues the story of the Aaron Cross character introduced in 2012's "The Bourne Legacy" and played by Jeremy Renner,

'Legacy featured Cross as a member of the black ops program Operation Outcome whose agents are genetically enhanced.  Bourne's actions as chronicled in 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum force the public exposure of Outcome's earlier incarnations - Treadstone and Blackbriar - Cross goes on the run as the agency races to shut Outcome down and kill its agents.

The pic grossed $276 million worldwide.

Former Fast and the Furious film franchise director Justin Lin is poised to helm the latest film in the Bourne film series

Ben Smith Jeffrey M. Weiner Lin, and Frank Marshall will produce the next film.

The pic is set for release on Aug. 14, 2015.

Marshall has expressed a desire for a film that would combine original series star Matt Damon who played Jason Bourne in the first three films and Renner