What is the deal with the Bourne franchise? Why can’t Universal figure out the best way to deliver to us more Jason Bourne? At one point there was already a writer secured working on the 4th film, then news broke last year that the original director, Paul Greengrass, had left the franchise and that Damon wouldn’t do another Bourne film without him. Talk about turmoil!

If we didn’t need any more roller coaster announcements, coming from Jason Bourne himself (via Empire), it seems to be that Universal, taking cues from their old pals at Sony, is planning on a prequel series to possibly reboot the franchise:

There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one, just because I think we’re probably another five years away from doing it – we’ve got to get a script.

Of course at this point, Damon could just be speculating, but wouldn’t you think if there’s something going on of this magnitude that he would know? If Universal can’t get Damon back without Greengrass, it does make sense to just completely reboot the franchise with a younger Bourne. As the industry gets more watered down with every series imaginable talking about “rebooting,” would it work for this film? Following Sony’s footsteps with Spider-Man, could a story about how Bourne became the amnesiac assassin we all know and love really work?

What do you think? Could it work? Would anyone go see it? Will we ever see a return to the Bourne franchise?