Bourne 5

[Eric Boellner]

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/colum...s-jeremy-renner-sherlock-holmes-writer-108061

Universal announced they're kicking off development on the fifth installment in the Bourne franchise. They've got Anthony Peckham writing the script (he adapted Invictus for Clint Eastwood, and did some writing on Sherlock Holmes (2009) as well), but what concerns me is that The Wrap says Tony Gilroy won't be involved. No word on whether that was his choice or Universal's. The fact that Gilroy's out, though, could be either a good thing or a bad thing. Gilroy's kind of a hit-or-miss director. Michael Clayton was amazing, but Duplicity was kind of mediocre, and The Bourne Legacy, while it had some powerful action scenes, was pretty disappointing after the original trilogy. I liked it at first (sans the ending, which sucked, IMO), but looking back on it, it really wasn't very similar to any of the previous Bourne films in that it was basically all science stuff and this guy (Renner) just trying to get his fix of this drug that made him a super-spy. Bourne 1-3 didn't really focus on the drug, though the experiments were briefly mentioned as backstory.

Guess we'll see how it turns out. I wonder who they'll get to direct it.

-EMB

 

[hscully]

The thing that stood out positively for me in the Tony Gilroy Bourne were the "back at the control room" scenes. The dialog and situations, back at the video ops land, in the first Bournes were no where near as believable as Tony Gilroy's. There was a truthfulness and accuracy in the dialog. In the older Bournes, no fault of David Strathiarn, those scenes were cartoons. I am a big Tony Gilroy fan. I think his strengths lie less in the action thrillers than in the psychological thrillers. In any case, I was SO grateful for the dialog in the last Bourne. I'm sorry he's not on the new one. It's a franchise that's getting a little long in the tooth anyway

 

[Eric Boellner]

I'd like to see the Bourne franchise go on like 007. If the movies are entertaining, I can put up with them aping Bond's formula over the last half-century, though it's different now, because they switched characters instead of just recasting Bourne. In any case, it'll be interesting to see where they take the story from here.

I thought Gilroy showed a really solid hand in his direction of two scenes in particular in Legacy: the scene where the scientist shoots up the lab, which was cold and quite chilling, and the scene where Cross saves the Rachel Weisz character at her home. The rest of the movie was so-so for me, but I hope to watch it again soon. It's been a while.

-EMB

 

[hscully]

Yeah, the scene at the house was pretty awesome, just the dialog before they went to finish her made for a killer reveal. . The wolf scene was a bit of a stretch. The Ed Norton, Stacey Keach stuff was ballsy and just sounded right. I actually liked the action stuff in the early stuff better than this last one but I'm a fan, Man. I'd like to see it continue.