Fans were happy to see the return of beloved spy, Jason Bourne as the trailer was debuted in the recent NFL Superbowl.
After his success with Ridley Scott's "The Martian," Matt Damon returns for his 4th Jason Bourne film. Damon did an interview with Entertainment Weekly and he shared how the film came to be.
"First and foremost, we needed a good story to tell," Damon shared. "Everyone involved at the studio level really wanted it to happen, but none of us wanted to force it. And so [Bourne Ultimatum director] Paul [Greengrass] and I, if there was any strategy we could hit upon, it was to wait to see how the world change, or to see if anything presented itself organically."
"Mainly, we just didn't want to mess it up. 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 then said that the multiple events in the world were different triggers to pursue another film. "Since 2007, so much has changed," the actor said.
"There's been the financial collapse, the great recession, all these issues of cyber warfare and civil liberties - things that are slowly coming to into the zeitgeist as we start to grapple with what the future is going to look like."
"And so those are kind of somewhere in the stew of our story. If you look at the first three, they are films that are product of the Bush presidency. Thematically, they touch on things people were talking and thinking about during that presidency. This one feels like a movie about today," he added.
He then says that this may be the concluding film for Jason Bourne. "This is the completion of this journey that started in the 'Bourne Identity,'" he said. "It's part of the first three [movies], it's not a whole new chapter. It feels like the conclusion, even though we're not saying it's the conclusion, it feels like the conclusion of my identity journey. It goes deeper than 'Ultimatum,' basically."