Warchief
08-23-2009, 05:25 AM
Universal was smart to lock down the rights to Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne character, even if there wasn't another book in the pipeline to be adapted. Matt Damon has said he'd return to the character if the story was good, then he signed on for a fourth Bourne and a Phillip K **** adaptation called The Adjustment Bureau.
Dual projects for an actor is no problem, but dual projects for a writer is a tad more difficult and dual projects for a first-time director are near impossible. Such is the issue for George Nolfi, the writer of films like Oceans Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum. Nolfi was hired to write the fourth Bourne flick earlier this year when a Summer 2011 date was announced for the sequel. A couple of months later, Nolfi was also given the reigns to The Adjustment Bureau, which he will direct and write for Universal, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
Two Matt Damon tent pole films are a bit much for one person to handle, so Nolfi has stepped away from the Bourne script as The Adjustment Bureau nears its September shooting dates. Universal, set on having a new Bourne film to keep them afloat in 2011, has hired Josh Zetumer, best known by buzz only as the writer of Peter Berg's new Dune adaptation, to write a fourth Bourne.
Bourne 4 now has two scripts in various levels of completion. Whn Zetumer turns in his draft, the studio and director have the option of chosing one or the other script of combining the two into one super-film.
This parallel scripting method isnt necessaraly unheard of, though some of the examples didn't exactly turn out to be huge blockbusters: "Star Trek: Generations," "Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer" and "Wolverine" among them (though as a Trek fan I enjoyed Generations).
I caught part of The Bourne Ultimatum on TV the other day and almost got sucked too far into the movie to leave in time to make my appointments, so there's nothing I'd like more than another addictive, smart and well-paced Bourne film. Not only that, but I like the sound of The Adjustment Bureau more and more.
Don't think there's any bad news here. Unless someone knows something about Josh Zetumer that I don't...
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Dual projects for an actor is no problem, but dual projects for a writer is a tad more difficult and dual projects for a first-time director are near impossible. Such is the issue for George Nolfi, the writer of films like Oceans Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum. Nolfi was hired to write the fourth Bourne flick earlier this year when a Summer 2011 date was announced for the sequel. A couple of months later, Nolfi was also given the reigns to The Adjustment Bureau, which he will direct and write for Universal, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
Two Matt Damon tent pole films are a bit much for one person to handle, so Nolfi has stepped away from the Bourne script as The Adjustment Bureau nears its September shooting dates. Universal, set on having a new Bourne film to keep them afloat in 2011, has hired Josh Zetumer, best known by buzz only as the writer of Peter Berg's new Dune adaptation, to write a fourth Bourne.
Bourne 4 now has two scripts in various levels of completion. Whn Zetumer turns in his draft, the studio and director have the option of chosing one or the other script of combining the two into one super-film.
This parallel scripting method isnt necessaraly unheard of, though some of the examples didn't exactly turn out to be huge blockbusters: "Star Trek: Generations," "Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer" and "Wolverine" among them (though as a Trek fan I enjoyed Generations).
I caught part of The Bourne Ultimatum on TV the other day and almost got sucked too far into the movie to leave in time to make my appointments, so there's nothing I'd like more than another addictive, smart and well-paced Bourne film. Not only that, but I like the sound of The Adjustment Bureau more and more.
Don't think there's any bad news here. Unless someone knows something about Josh Zetumer that I don't...
Source ([Only registered and activated users can see links])