Exclusive: Bourne Remake With Joseph Quinn In The Works
The Upside-Down couldn’t keep him away forever. Our trusted and proven sources tell us the Jason Bourne film series has a remake underway, with Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things fame as the new lead. While the film will take part in the Bourne universe, rather than stepping into Matt Damon’s shoes, Quinn will apparently be playing someone brand new to the story.
We’ve exclusively learned that Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things fame has been cast as a new hero in a reboot of the Bourne franchise.
The logline for the Bourne remake that our sources provided us with calls it a reboot of the Bourne franchise with a new intelligence team and a younger male character (Joseph Quinn’s role) at the center of the story. So along with Quinn playing someone other than Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, the film will seemingly deal with an organization other than the fictional CIA black-ops program Treadstone.
Attached to direct rhe Bourne remake is David Leitch (Bullet Train) with Drew Pearce (Hotel Artemis) writing the script. This makes a third collaboration between Leitch and Pearce. They both previously worked on 2019’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as well as the upcoming action thriller The Fall Guy.
Bourne Without Damon Is Risky
For Joseph Quinn to be cast in a Bourne remake is an interesting and potentially risky choice. Of course, this isn’t the first time Universal has brought the franchise in a direction that didn’t directly involve Damon or even another actor playing Jason Bourne.
There was 2016’s The Bourne Legacy which starred Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) as Aaron Cross — member of the Department of Defense’s Operation Outcome — and in 2019 the USA network premiered Treadstone, a prequel series starring Jeremy Irvine as CIA operative Joseph Randolph Bentley.
However, neither The Bourne Legacy nor Treadstone did the franchise any favors. Legacy proved to be the most commercially underwhelming entry in the series, and Treadstone was canceled after only one season.
News of Joseph Quinn boarding the Bourne remake as someone completely different could be a signal that Universal is getting impatient with Matt Damon. As Collider pointed out in April, in spite of his last entry in the franchise — 2016’s Jason Bourne — proving to be the only one that was a bigger critical failure than The Bourne Legacy, Damon hasn’t ruled out the possibility of returning to the role.
This makes a third collaboration between Leitch and Pearce. They both previously worked on 2019’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as well as the upcoming action thriller The Fall Guy.
By casting Quinn as a completely new character hailing from a different intelligence organization, the studio could be hoping to have its proverbial cake and eat it too — to make bank off the dormant Bourne franchise while leaving the door open for Damon to return. When we know more, we’ll make sure you know.
