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Next Bourne Based on The Parsifal Mosaic?

Source:Silas Lesnick
December 7, 2008


Producer Frank Marshall revealed today at The Curious Case of Benjamin Button where the next "Bourne" adventure might be headed, citing one of Robert Ludlum's books, "The Parsifal Mosaic" as potential source material.

Q: What's happening with "Bourne" now that you have access to the Robert Ludlum library?

Frank Marshall: Well, that's the good news. We now have access to all the Ludlum story ideas. We're going to make the fourth movie from them.

Q: And Matt's signed on?

Marshall: No, the only people signed on right now is George Nolfi, the writer, and me. We have to get a good script and then, hopefully, Matt will follow.

Q: Would this come at all from the new book, "The Bourne Betrayal"?

Marshall: No, the "Bourne Betrayal" was written by a friend of Ludlum's.... It had nothing to do with us.... We want to stay true to the original character.

Q: Any ideas for a "Bourne" title?

Marshall: Well, there's a lot of jokes. "Bourne Again," "Bourne Yesterday," "Bourne Free," "Bourne on the Fourth." I actually want to do that. Call it that and release the movie on the fourth.

Q: Would you want to do a straight adaptation from one of the novels?

Marshall: Actually, there is. "The Parsifal Mosaic" is one that we like.

"The Parsifal Mosiac," not a "Bourne" adventure as a novel, deals with a U.S. spy who falls in love with another spy who is revealed to be a double agent just before her death. When he retires from the business, though, the spy learns that she may still be alive and sets out to learn the truth.

COMMENTS (53)

Posted by:
Josh
December 7, 2008
That might actually be a good movie! I think it would be.
Posted by:
TPJR
December 7, 2008
The third one was awesome, and will definitely bring me back to the theatre for another...
Posted by:
Frank
December 7, 2008
"Spy who falls in love with another spy who is revealed to be a double agent just before her death."
Casino Royale much?
Posted by:
Titus
December 7, 2008
What did people find so attractive about the third one?

I enjoyed the rooftop chase, though, camera angles could have been chosen differently to make it more thrilling. Other than that, much of the hand-to-hand action was vague because of the shaky-cam and I thought the car chase was the worst of the trilogy because it didn't say anything about Bourne's ingenuity--he just got lucky at the end, managing to extricate himself from the wreckage of his car that the bad guy actually engineered.
Posted by:
TonyRo19
December 7, 2008
absolutely not....Jason Bourne wasn't in the Parsifal Mosaic and shouldn't be...it was Ludlum's best novel and deserves it's own film
Posted by:
ico
December 7, 2008
The girl should be Julia Stiles character, i cant remember her name.
Posted by:
wtf
December 7, 2008
yea as Frank said, that sounds an awful lot like Casino Royal.
I think they should leave the series be, this isn't like Bond where they can just make sequels every year.
Posted by:
TheSizlack
December 7, 2008
That is far too close to the story of Casino Royale, it seems like a big mistake to go down that story path. They also built up Bourne's love for Marie too much to have him fall for anyone else (save Julia Stiles' character since they apparently had a past).
Posted by:
bernard
December 7, 2008
the prometheus deception is one of ludlum's best, and it seems like it'd be easy to put bourne in place of the main character. of course it would need a few changes, but i think it would be great. if not for the bourne franchise, then it should be developed as a stand-alone movie anyway-- it's great.

but i agree with wtf... they should end the bourne series before it gets stale. if four gets made, i hope its the last.
Posted by:
Sean Cage
December 7, 2008
I think it is a huge mistake to translate that paticular novel into the Bourne universe. There is a movie coming out with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts that is very simular to that book. Simply put go in another direction please do not ruin this Franchise!!

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