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The Tony Gilroy Script?

posted 8 years ago by freemantle_uk
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Matt Damon claimed that Tony Gilroy's draft of The Bourne Ultimatum was 'unreadable' and it sounded like Gilroy and Paul Greengrass did not like each other that much. I was wondering what was in the Gilroy script that made it so bad?

Also a bit rich from Damon calling the script unreadable considering he did Green Zone and Jason Bourne was just a rehash of 'The Bourne Supremacy'.

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[–] clark_gillies 8 years ago

Very little is said about it.... Gilroy was not interested on working on a Bourne Ultimatum script as he was working on another project, but the studio paid him a lot of money and he handed something in that was not to their liking, so Greengrass and Damon would bring their own men in.

Its well known that a lot of his plans and idea's for the previous movies were canned.... especially Supremacy, where he made lots of references to the "Soviet Union", even though the movie was set in 2004...plus his original script was Marie to die in a car crash when their car crashes into a bus, then Jason would snap and beat up the bus driver very badly, and the first 1/3 of the movie would be set in a Indian prison, before Bourne escapes and makes his way to Moscow.