How Jason Bourne Changed Cinema

Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:

Filling Bourne’s shoes, a new Nosferatu, Nicholas Hoult as Lex, and a pine tree.

Let’s go!

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HOW JASON BOURNE CHANGED CINEMA

The Bourne Identity. 2002. Universal Pictures.

Jason Bourne is back.

It’s still early days, the script has not been written, and Matt Damon has not been attached, but there is a salivating possibility that director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) will direct and oversee development for a new Bourne film.

Berger’s keen eye for the humanistic antiwar epic could revitalize the film series by returning it to its post-9/11 cinema roots.