After Matt Damon’s third film as Jason Bourne, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, he parted ways from the franchise and five years later Universal tried to reignite the franchise with a spinoff, The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner (Avengers: Age of Ultron) as Aaron Cross.
The fourth installment in the series did okay, pulling in $276.1M at the worldwide box office — third-best in the franchise. Good enough for Universal to give a green light to a sequel, but that got put on hold when Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) unexpectedly chose to return for the fifth installment.
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Aaron Cross won’t appear in it, but during a press event for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Renner was asked if he’d be interested in making a future Bourne film in which Cross shared the screen with Damon’s Bourne. “Yeah, I mean in two seconds. I love that world,” Renner told Screen Rant. “I love the character. If they want to do that, I’m in there’s no ‘no’ coming from this direction. I don’t pull the strings on that…”
The next chapter of the Bourne films is set to hit theaters on July 29, 2016.
