When Making Another BOURNE Sequel Proves Too Challenging, You...Make A BOURNE Prequel Instead!?

Merrick here...
There's been all kinds of speculation as to what's happening with another BOURNE movie - especially since Paul Greengrass departed the project a few months back. Empire recently grilled Matt Damon as to the status of the movie, and Matt's answer was a bit surprising.

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

...Damon told Empire HERE. As Empire correctly notes, the word "probably" could mean/imply many things, so it's best to take this infobit as speculative until more solid details are gleaned. So, does a potential Lil' Bourne = literally, a prequel? Or, might this end up being a franchise reboot?
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