Matt Damon will return to the big screen as genetically engineered super agent Jason Bourne in 2016, it has been revealed.
According to Deadline.com, Universal Pictures is in talks with both Damon and director Paul Greengrass to produce the fifth movie in 'The Bourne Identity' series based around the character created by author Robert Ludlum.
Four 'Bourne' movies were released in the ten-year spell between 2002 and 2012.
Damon played the titular agent in the first three movies in the series before the actor stepped away from the character.
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