The new Bourne film is back on track,featuring the adventures of the hero “through an austerity-riddled Europe and in a post-Edward Snowden world”, as its lead actor Matt Damon revealed in an interview last week.
The Bourne films are based on a series of espionage thriller novels by Robert Ludlum, adapted for the screen and focusing on the titular character, Jason Bourne, a CIA-trained assassin suffering from memory loss.
US actor, screenwriter and producer Matt Damon has played the main character in the first three instalments of the series since 2002, and is now returning to appear in the fifth film, directed by Paul Greengrass.
Damon and Greengrass have worked on the script while having in mind two major developments which transformed the global political scene in the recent years: the revelations about NSA policies by whistleblower, former CIA employee Edward Snowden, and Greece’s financial crisis that shook the EU.
“It seems like enough has changed, you know? There are all these kinds of arguments about spying and civil liberties and the nature of democracy,” said the 44-year-old actor.
The film – which is set to reach cinemas on 29 July 2016 – kicks off production in September and will take place in various international locations including Greece.
“We’re starting in Greece, you know, the beginning of democracy,” said Damon, giving fans a sneak peek, adding that shooting will be concluded in Las Vegas.
Source: Buzzfeed