“As for why he came back, Damon told Entertainment Weekly he was waiting for the right script because “none of us wanted to force it.”
“Additionally, he didn’t want to do it unless Paul Greengrass, the director of the latest two Damon-starring Bourne movies, would also come back, which he has.
“”Mainly, we just didn’t want to mess it up,” he said. “We were really happy with the three films and if we were going to do another one, we wanted it to fit in with the three films in terms of quality.”
“Damon played Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum.
“The fourth movie, The Bourne Legacy, featured Jeremy Renner in the lead role, but as the character Aaron Cross, not Bourne.”
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