'Bourne 5' Spoilers: Matt Damon Reveals That His Character Is Not 'Jason Bourne Anymore [VIDEO]
Jason Bourne's identity is going to get to be a hell of a lot more complicated in the fifth installment, according to Matt Damon.
Damon revealed that the matter of Bourne's identity had a lot to do with the title of the film—which is slightly different from what we have known this far.
In an interview with Empire, the actor revealed that they were initially planning on going with the usual "The Bourne Something" for the title, but the complexity of the character at this stage had them change their minds.
"We talked about calling it The Bourne Something," Damon said, "but I think the idea was to separate this film from the others, because so much time has passed since we did one. Ours are really about identity, and the guy's search for identity, and at the end of the third one, he says 'I'm no longer Jason Bourne'. So without giving too much away, the new one starts with the implications of that: okay, then who is he? What is this identity that's just sitting out there unclaimed? What does it mean? I think the title will make more sense when you see the movie, but it felt right because it felt pertinent to the story we were telling and also different from the others—in the right way. A decade has passed..."
Previously, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly last month, Damon talked about working on Jason Bourne and dished a bit about where fans will find his character at the start of the film.
Talking to EW, Damon revealed that Jason will obviously be dealing with some conflict which causes him to come back, and this time around he remembers everything and who he is, but that doesn't spell resolution.
"Well I don't know how much I should say. [Laughs] We talked a lot about what state he should be in, and where we came to was that if you found him fat and happy and content, you don't really have a movie. So we talked about how at the end of Bourne Ultimatum, he gets his memory back and it kind of completed that identity journey for him," he said. "But does that complete things for the character or not? And the conclusion we came to is no—we find him in a very dark and tortured place. He's living with the same things as he was before, and then he goes to find Julia Stiles' character, who basically says, 'Just because you remember everything, doesn't mean you know everything.' So you find him in a place that's dark and unresolved."
Jason Bourne will release on July 29, 2016.
