Damon has said in the past he had no intention of returning unless Paul Greengrass was the director and they had a good story because "I love that character and I'd love to see what happened to him".
Originally slated for an August 14th 2015 release, the pic is now set to open eleven months later - on July 15th 2016..
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, Andrew Baldwin was recently hired to take over the job of scripting the sequel
'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
No reason was given for the delay, but Renner is set to reprise his role of William Brandt in the action sequel Mission: Impossible 5 shooting later this year/early next year, thus a delay for "Bourne" isn't a major shock.
The suits did mot waste any time finding a replacement though, putting the music biopic "Straight Outta Compton" into that slot.
Ben Smith Jeffrey M. Weiner Lin, and Frank Marshall will produce the next film.
UPDATE:: Marshall tells Heat Vision that the talk of Damon returning is not true.
"It is simply not true. Justin Lin is working with Andrew Baldwin on an Aaron Cross script/story that they pitched us a few months ago. I talk to Justin all the time and the script is not ready. It's a summer movie, and if we don't start pre-production now, we can't make next summer. Therefore, it's a wise decision to move to 2016."
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