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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:
Pixel
December 9, 2008
Casino Royale had a very complicated plot, I think they could easily do the Parsifal Mosaic story without it feeling like an imitation.
Anyway, wasn't it Bond that was looking a lot like Bourne in Quantum of Solace? Stripped of any luxuries for over half the movie and riding on a scooter and public transportation and jumping through living rooms.
Posted by:
mmiiaa
December 20, 2008
hopefully there will be a new film i love them
(sorry my english is terrible)
Posted by:
faiz
December 26, 2008
i like jason very much with heart.i like his intilligence.i want to talk with bourne. i want to become his friend.
Posted by:
SoundChekZ
December 26, 2008
I would love to see the Bancroft Strategy made into a movie, that was a great book!
Posted by:
Roger
December 31, 2008
This should be a separate movie, dont let the movie directors ruin a book that deserves it own movie! Bourne was not in this book and they should not steal this story line!
Posted by:
Roger
December 31, 2008
they have butchered the bourne character!!!! Blasphemy!!!!!!
Posted by:
jtg
January 12, 2009
I agree with many of the previous comments. It's hard to stay totally true to the Bourne character when the story line goes so far from the books. I really like the books and I really like the movies but I have to think of them as completely different.

I would like to see a fourth movie but I agree that they should write a good script and let it go it's own way without regard to the books it is already too far away to go back now. Also, I don't think anyone else should play the part except Matt Damon. In some ways I would like to see Nikki and Bourne get together maybe reluctantly at first... something like he finds out she is in trouble, she is not the as good in the fielf as he is and it would be in his character to go help especially if he is feeling drawn to learn more about the relationship they had in the past... she might have some information about his past that could help him. On the other hand I think his intensity might diminish if it turns into a love story.

I have also enjoyed the follow up novel by Eric Van Lustbader... there is definitely a style difference but I like them both. I don't have the history with Robert Ludlum that some of you have. The three Bourne novel are the only Ludlum novels I have read.

I am in favor of a fourth with the above conditions I mentioned and especially since they have gotten so far from the original books.
Posted by:
Jason
January 16, 2009
Maybe this would have something to do with Niki, I know those two had something going before he joined the program. I guess you could consider here a spy.
Posted by:
Michael
February 6, 2009
One more would be great if you keep with the story lines from the first three. Each movie had something to do with the one before, For the two characters from all three to have a past which was hinted in the third, would not be far fetched as an underlining story.
Posted by:
Bobby Yarush
February 27, 2009
"The Bourne Vindication" of course.

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