Monday
08Dec2008
'Bourne' To Cull from Other Ludlum Novels?
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 5:19PM
I'm still on the fence about a fourth (and now,
fifth and
sixth)
Jason Bourne movie. You remember that lasting image of Michael
Jordan shooting that 20-foot jumper over a fallen Bryon Russell of the Utah Jazz
in 1998? Do you remember him, I dunno, passing it down low to Jahidi White in
the Washington Wizards era?
For episode four, they might use a story about a different spy, which is an interesting approach. "The Parsifal Mosaic is one we like," said producer Frank Marshall in an interview with Coming Soon. That's a 1983 Robert Ludlum novel about a spy who falls in love, has reason to believe she dies, and then begins to see signs that she's alive...and that she may not be who he thought she'd be.
What's great about this? Maybe the love story angle. I say that only because the way Bourne's heart was ripped out in the second film propelled so much of the action that followed it, really for two movies, that to go back down that road again seems like a fairly natural progression. Obviously, Bourne would try to connect with someone now that that first batch of CIA ugliness is behind him, so I don't have any problem with that.
Don't forget that the franchise will need an entirely new cast of characters now that Bourne is completely off the grid again. No Joan Allen, no Julia Styles, none of them. And keeping it from the pen of Robert Ludlum, even if it's not a Bourne story, is a refreshing idea. The Parsifal Mosaic, which simply can't be the name of the movie, is not set in stone, but is just a story the producers like, so we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. But I've heard worse ideas.
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