I feel metformin hcl 500 mg dosage intellectually inferior just looking at Tony Gilroy.
It was pretty shocking for me to read producer Frank Marshall announce via his Twitter account:
Fantastic news today! Tony Gilroy, the keeper of the Bourne flame, is back with us to write the treatment for #4, THE BOURNE LEGACY…
Tony Gilroy, as Marshall so eloquently calls “keeper of the Bourne flame”, of course wrote the scripts for the first three films. And he made a TON of money. I immediately recalled a profile I read last year on Gilroy in the New Yorker by writer D.T. Max. In the piece Max detailed Gilroy’s history with the franchise, his bad relationship with The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman, his paycheck for the The Bourne Supremacy and his fallout during The Bourne Ultimatum. Here’s a great couple snippets from the profile:
At one point, Liman hired a new screenwriter; Matt Damon threatened to walk off the movie if Gilroy’s script wasn’t used.
The studio offered [Gilroy] three million dollars if he wrote a script good enough to be filmed. Gilroy agreed, on the condition that the second “Bourne” not be a repeat of the first.
In 2005, the studio used another large check to persuade Gilroy to write the third “Bourne” movie. One of the conditions of his taking the money was that he would not have to speak with Greengrass. Gilroy wrote a draft of the script, and then left the project. Then Greengrass passed the script on to four other writers, among them Tom Stoppard. Frank Marshall, one of the series’ producers, says that “The Bourne Ultimatum” is, at its core, still Gilroy’s story. Its worldwide gross was four hundred and forty million dollars. Gilroy never saw it.
Given that last quote you can understand two things. One, why I said it’s shocking that Gilroy is coming back. Two, someone should register with Guinness because Gilroy is probably being paid more money than anyone in the history of the business to write a treatment for The Bourne Legacy. Considering how controlling Gilroy is over his work, and rightfully so since he has the clout to, I wouldn’t be surprised if we learned later down the road he ends up just writing the Legacy script altogether. Which would result in another ridiculously large check.
And he deserves it. The Bourne franchise could have easily slipped into the deathnell of awful writing that most action films do. Instead Gilroy’s undeniable talent as a writer helped it become one of the best and most profitable franchises we’ve got right now and made a freaking superstar out of Matt Damon. Poor Affleck.
Does Gilroy’s involvement mean we’ll be hearing from Damon sometime soon and whether or not he’ll be involved? And with Damon surely comes Supremacy & Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass. Anyway, Legacy just became a lot more realistic than we might have previously thought. But if Damon & Greengrass don’t return, will Bourne become this generations James Bond and cycle through actors every few installments? I hope not. Besides, somewhere down the line the titles are going to be pretty stupid. Can’t say I’m too excited for the 21st chapter in the franchise, tentatively titled (by me) The Bourne Referendum.
Here’s the link again for Max’s great profile on Gilroy. It’s definitely worth a read. (thumbnail thanks to “The New Yorker”)
