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Who's Auditioning for Bourne-Without-Bourne?

Basically every young, male actor.

By Tom Pinchuk  |  Feb. 25, 2011


 Auditioning actors' head shots will be evaluated through this scope.
 Auditioning actors' head shots will be evaluated through this scope.

Plans are advancing for the  fourth movie in that harder-edge spy franchise Matt Damon once headlined. Deadline’s reported that Tony Gilroy’s moving ahead to write and direct this flick--which will see a new super-secret-agent stepping forth into Treadstone's clandestine playground-- and he’s reportedly considering basically every young, male actor for the part.

In alphabetical order, the potentials are…

I’m honestly not too invested in the Bourne series (though I did enjoy Supremacy a great deal) and am a little dubious about how strong a milieu the series’ “world” is to support a movie without its main character. However, if they casted Paul Dano out of all these dudes, I’d definitely be intrigued to watch, because that’d be one hell of a jump in roles.

This is going to be loosely based off the Bourne Legacy, the first Bourne novel written after Robert Ludlum's death. While it might adhere too close to the book’s plot, it sounds like it’ll realize the title more literally than previous installments did (since, you know, the movie would be about Bourne’s successor and not Bourne himself.) Bourne Identity’s title fit the plot pretty directly (and in a somewhat pun-y way, to boot) but the sequels’ titles seemed to correlate more obliquely (did Bourne reign supreme over his foes in #2? Did he ever actually deliver an ultimatum to anybody in #3?)

Filed under: Matt Damon, Tony Gilroy, Jason Bourne
25 Comments
Tomrockon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:04 p.m.
Definitely not Paul Dano!
BlueHawaiianon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:18 p.m.
I like Paul Dano
Jackholeon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:24 p.m.
I just watched There Will Be Blood. I want more Dano.
Joeon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:28 p.m.
Paul Dano? Well, I can't say he'd be great, but I'd sure as hell be intrigued to see a test screening of him trying it out. 
 
Really though, it's still odd making a Bourne film without Damon.
Iconon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:43 p.m.
Apparently this film may lead to a 5th (if successful) that will see Bourne (Damon) and director Paul Greengrass back. It's about setting the stage, if you will. Anyway, I'm really interested in seeing where they take the story and how they deal with the fallout from the Bourne trilogy (my favourite trilogy). So count me in.
Demyxon Feb. 25, 2011 at 1:51 p.m.
I think a female would be nice personally.
StormtrooprDaveon Feb. 25, 2011 at 2:16 p.m.
I want Matt Damon to come back to this when is is 65 and do a proper Ultimatum/aging agent type storyline.
Ronaldon Feb. 25, 2011 at 2:22 p.m.
That is a weird list of actors. It's like they pasted every actor's name between 20 and 40 to a wall and threw darts at the wall to pick this list. And of course the actual story will be nothing like the book, since the second movie departed so far from the books there can be no going back.
FreylikeDaveon Feb. 25, 2011 at 2:28 p.m.
Cast Dano and I would definitely watch. I think casting the rest and it would just be too similar to the earlier Bourne films... except, y'know, not Matt Damon.
VioletEyedDragonon Feb. 25, 2011 at 3:05 p.m.
tobey macguire looks good.
 
id also be interested to see channing tatum come on board.
Vincemasteron Feb. 25, 2011 at 3:34 p.m.
Hahahahaha I do like him, but I cannot imagine Paul Dano as a badass at all. I can maybe see Toby Macguire or Jake Gyllenhaal, but I haven't heard of most of the others. Fassbender could maybe be a villain...
Flap_jacksonon Feb. 25, 2011 at 3:59 p.m.
The Bourne Trilogy is one of the best trilogies of all time in my opinion, so to make it a Quadilogogy makes me very skeptical towards a Damon-less Bourne movie. To have a list Paul Dano & Alex Pettypher on it makes me even more skeptical.
theodacourton Feb. 25, 2011 at 5:20 p.m.
Paul Dano would certainly make a very different Bourne film, but can he buff up like Bale, Damon or Hardy? He wouldn't be a treadstone killing machine if he's paper thin and I don't think they're going to move away from the action style film they have. 
 
Out of those I'd love to see Maguire or Fassbender.
Lydian_Selon Feb. 25, 2011 at 6:26 p.m.
If I had to choose somebody off of that last alone I think I'd go with Oscar Isaac, or Paul Dano just to see what becomes of that.
 
Then again if I actually had any say in the matter I'd just shitcan a 4th Bourne film.
Rominationon Feb. 25, 2011 at 6:40 p.m.
Paul Dano would be amazing.
Sandoron Feb. 25, 2011 at 7:44 p.m.
Paul Dano would be the dweebiest assassin on the planet.
AuthenticMon Feb. 25, 2011 at 8:50 p.m.
Jake Gyllenhall
HadesTimeson Feb. 25, 2011 at 10:09 p.m.
Nothing about this story makes me feel confident that this is going to be a good movie.  Without Matt Damon this movie will seem a little too different from the original.  This is going to be like the original star wars movies versus the prequels.
SmokeYouon Feb. 25, 2011 at 11:03 p.m.
I really don't want them to do another one without Damon.  That trilogy is so great already.  Hopefully the 4th movie will do the name justice.
Milkmanon Feb. 25, 2011 at 11:33 p.m.
Paul Dano as Jason Bourne would be pretty damn hilarious. 

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