Not too old to be Bourne again

Not too old to be Bourne again

Bourne fans can welcome back Matt Damon, after he sat out the fourth movie.

A new trailer has been released for the latest installment of the Bourne series. In this film, Jason Bourne, Bourne finally gets his memory back.

Damon, 45, last appeared in a Bourne film in Bourne Ultimatum in 2007. The first of the series, Bourne Identity, was released in 2002.

Jeremy Renner sat in Damon for the fourth movie, The Bourne Legacy.

The Bourne films are a series of action spy thriller films based on the character Jason Bourne, who is a CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss.

The first three films were based on novels of the same name written by Robert Ludlum.

Damon said he "felt his age" returning to the role for the first time since 2007.

"For the first Bourne movie I was 29, and I thought that was hard work getting into shape," he told the BBC. "Now I'm 45 and it's just brutal. We shot this bare-knuckle fighting scene on my 45th birthday and it was a lot of work to get there. I was on a very strict diet and spent a lot of time in the gym just making myself miserable."

Despite not playing the action hero for almost 10 years, Damon has risen to the challenge, and he's not the first over 40 in the industry to do so.

Harrison Ford's fifth turn as archaeologist Indiana Jones has been confirmed for 2019 by Disney; he will be 77 when the film comes out.

Bruce Willis began a cult following when he starred in the first Die Hard in 1988, which has since had five instalments, and 60-year-old Willis has signed on for a sixth.

Liam Neeson was 61 when the most recent Taken was released. Sylvester Stallone will be 70 when the fourth instalment of The Expendables is released next year. Denzel Washington was 59 when he took on the role of Robert McCall in The Equalizer for the hit 2014 movie.

The Terminator himself Arnold Schwarzenegger was 68 when Terminator Genisys was released in 2015. The first Terminator came out 31 years before that.

Jason Bourne will be released in cinemas on July 29.

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