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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:

Mike

December 8, 2008

I liked the Bourne movies.

My only problem is that while borrowing the titles from the books the movie stories never followed the books at all. The first movie had Bourne, the girl and the idea that he had amnesia but after that it took a complete left turn. It completely ignored Carlos who is Bourne's nemesis in the series.

I think they could actually make the stories from the books and have 3 more movies. It's just that easy.

Posted by:

Kyle

December 8, 2008

They should atleast show him signing up for the program in the beginning and explaining all this **** to us.

Like what treatments, the love affair, etc;

Posted by:

Bruce_Wayne

December 8, 2008

Slap "bourne" label on it, get Damon, and my ass in in-seat on opening weekend!!!!!!

Posted by:

Mike

December 8, 2008

they should have made the Bourne movies into period novels, taking place in the same time as the books. b/c for Frank Marshall to say they want to stay true to the Bourne character is ridiculous.

Posted by:

SWelch

December 8, 2008

Posted by: Titus on December 7, 2008 at 21:28:12

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.

Sometimes a person even with Bourne skills get lucky.

The shaky hand held cam was the look they were going for. The idea was make you feel like you were right in the action. And it worked. Especially the fight scenes. Real fights are in slow motion or anything like that. They are fast and vicious and thats what the film makers were trying to show.

As for a fourth film. If it was done right I would be there opening weekend for sure.

Posted by:

essay

December 8, 2008

Marshall: "We want to stay true to the original character."
Huh? Each movie, starting with the first, got progressively further away from Ludlum.

Posted by:

Musket

December 8, 2008

Essay nailed it. wtf is Marshall talking about staying true to the original character. Hell I had to think of the entire series as a different story/character all together just to enjoy the movies.

Posted by:

sean

December 8, 2008

he girls name, Julie Stiles character, was Nicki. That would be a good twist to have Nicki be the one who was his secret girlfriend. After all they where together in Paris and she had close contact with him. They should have thought of something already and made those part of his flashbacks. Something to get for free when your are seeing the new movie, it would make you connect the third and the fourth together. and give viewers a certain mental power that "they got it" or they picked up on it, wondering if everyone else did, Makes for a very satisfied movie goer. or Pamels Lundy should be his mother or Aunt. She did help him out in the end. Pointing him in the right direction.

Posted by:

sean

December 8, 2008

The girls name, Julie Stiles character, was Nicki. That would be a good twist to have Nicki be the one who was his secret girlfriend, or no who was his girlfrien (the double agent) After all they where together in Paris and she had close contact with him. They should have thought of something already and made those part of his flashbacks. Something to get for free when your are seeing the new movie, it would make you connect the third and the fourth together and give viewers a certain mental power that "they got it" or "they picked up on it", wondering if everyone else did, Makes for a very satisfied movie goer. Maybe Pamela Lundy should be his mother or Aunt. She did help him out in the end. Pointing him in the right direction of his past.

Posted by:

P@t_Mtl

December 8, 2008

That make's no sense, that book as nothing too do with jason Bourne?