Matt Damon (Photo : Reuters)
Award-winning actor Matt Damon confirmed that he will re-appear as the amnesiac super soldier Jason Bourne next year with director Paul Greengrass again at the helm.
Damon was at a speaking engagement promoting docu-series "Project Greenlight" in Los Angeles when he told E! News about doing another Bourne movie.
Damon told the entertainment network that the new film will be out next year after getting Greengrass' "yes." He said that Greengrass will do another Bourne film and that was the only thing he told Damon.
To date, Damon appeared in three Bourne films. The first of the Bourne franchise, "The Bourne Identity" (2002), begins with an injured Bourne who was out in a quest to find out his true identity after Italian fishermen found his almost dead body adrift in the sea during a storm.
After recovering, Bourne remembers all his skills and training, saved for his true identity.
The story builds up with action-packed pace different from CGI-dominated productions at the time and follows story developments of spy plots readers will only find in Robert Ludlum novels.
The success of "Bourne Identity" led to a sequel, "The Bourne Supremacy," which was released in 2004, while the third sequel, "The Bourne Ultimatum," came out in 2007.
Meanwhile, the fourth movie of the franchise, "The Bourne Legacy," which starred Jeremy Renner, tells a parallel story of another super agent named Aaron Cross, who is similar to Bourne in every way, except that Cross has control of his faculties.
News of Damon and Greengrass working together on another Bourne movie came out after Ben Affleck, Damon's best friend, publicly revealed the plan while Affleck was working out.
Damon and Greengrass worked together in the two sequels, "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "The Bourne Supremacy."
Damon's character is based on Robert Ludlum's novel series that follows the life of a dysfunctional super spy and agent Jason Bourne the CIA trained and programmed to eliminate all those who cross the intelligence agency's path.
