Matt Damon On Bourne

Matt Damon was recently doing the rounds for Hereafter, and when we got a chance to sit down and chat with him we also took the opportunity to ask if he'd ever go back to the Bourne franchise. And the answer we got was...interesting.

"I read online that they're doing another Jason Bourne movie with Tony Gilroy directing that I'm not in. No-one told me, literally nobody called me. People think I have insider information, but you get a sense of where I am in the pecking order!"

So would he ever go back? "I'd do it with Paul [Greengrass]. Universal don't actually own the Bourne character - the estate [of Robert Ludlum] does - so technically I could go to Warner Bros...and Universal could read about it online."

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We're pretty sure he's joking there, but you can judge for yourself by reading the full interview in the latest issue of Empire, which is on sale now.