Now Damon is returning to the franchise with Jason Bourne, a movie that also brings back Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass behind the camera.
This happened when Universal Pictures released The Bourne Legacy: a film set in the Bourne movie universe, but centered around one onetime government assassin-turned fugitive Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) rather than Jason Bourne (Matt Damon).
Either way, it still begs the question: should the Jason Bourne character be recast after Damon is ready to call it a day?
Bourne Legacy, while not at all a flop, was less successful both critically and commercially than Bourne films past.