Coming Soon is reporting from the press junket for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and mini news bits are emerging as producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy have revealed a couple of details regarding the next Jason Bourne film and the apparently non-existent production process on Jurassic Park IV.
First off, when asked if there was work being done on Jurassic Park IV, a film that has been talked about ever since the third one ended, Kathleen Kennedy said, “No… I don’t know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s a sign that we don’t mess with it.” Boom! There’s your news on that one… do with it what you will.
The story on the as-yet Untitled Fourth Jason Bourne Movie Frank Marshall expressed joy over Universal’s recent acquisition of the entire Robert Ludlum library and expects to cull the story for the fourth Bourne flick from the pages of a previous Ludlum story despite the fact Ludlum only penned three Bourne novels and technically the films hardly had anything to do with them in the first place.
He jokes about the potential title for the fourth film saying, “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.” He also revealed that as of this moment neither Matt Damon or director Paul Greengrass have officially signed on.
As for the story he says, “‘The Parsifal Mosiac’ is the one we like.”
“The Parsifal Mosiac” is a Ludlum book from 1982 and it isn’t even available from Amazon.com outside of two used copies and Barnes and Noble doesn’t even have it listed. The story, as referenced using various sources around the web, centers on Michael Havelock, an intelligence agent in the United States, who believes his lover and partner as she was assumed to be a KGB double agent. The story shifts as Havelock gets out of the intelligence world, but ultimately learns she is still alive and he begins to pursue her. The word “Parsifal” in the title involves a sketchy deal involving the U.S. Secretary of State, the Russians, Chinese and nukes. Basically it’s a bunch of stuff that will never make it to the big screen and I can only assume the focus would be on the male/female dynamic.
Finally, Kennedy adds that it appears Steven Spielberg will finally be getting his shit together and making Lincoln with Liam Neeson in the title role saying, “Steven and I are probably going to be doing Lincoln in the spring.”
