Matt Damon might be sick of the character of Jason Bourne but he isn’t tired of working under Paul Greengrass, the director of the last two Bourne movies. According to Variety, Damon has been cast in the helmer’s next film about the chaos of the Iraq war for Universal Pictures.
You may remember way back in January we reported of Greengrass’ involvement in the movie which is an adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone.
Chandrasekaran details Bernard Kerik’s ludicrous attempt to train the Iraqi police and brings to light lesser known but typical travesties: the case of the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of reestablishing Baghdad’s stock exchange; a contractor with no previous experience paid millions to guard a closed airport; a State Department employee forced to bribe Americans to enlist their help in preventing Iraqi weapons scientists from defecting to Iran.
The movie is still currently untitled although I still think Imperial Life in the Emerald City sounds great. Even just Emerald City works.
A different role for Damon and wanna that will stretch his acting far more than the Bourne franchise.
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I like baeating up Bush as much as the next rational person, but this seems more suited to a documentary than a movie. I know that after Syriana a lot of folks think this type of cinema is feasible, but it’s much harder than it looks.
Oh well, you never know til you try. BTW I’m surprised that Greengrass directed the second Bourne movie. I HATED the first one. Too incoherent, too sloppy in pace and tone -Bourne Identity-lovers accept it, it’s the truth. The B. Supremacy however was the exact opposite. Tighter, faster, and actually focused a trait the first one sorely lacked. A crying shame the first movie couldn’t have been that good.