I love the Bourne movies, mainly because they're about the virus of empathy taking down a cabal of stone-cold killers, and even the worst of them have moments of beauty, or at least a fucking awesome piece of stuntwork.
They've repeatedly tried to recapture the brilliance of the first few films and have always fallen short, but there is always talk of a new film somewhere in development, if they can just crack the right story.
Here's my idea for free, because it's blindingly obvious - make it all Bourne, all the way.
There have now been five films in the series (and a television show which seems to have been watched by absolutely nobody), and while they all have fairly substantial body counts, there have also been a lot of wounded people walking away grimly, and putting them all together in one film is a total no-brainer.
You've got Matt Damon, of course, who can do properly grizzled these days, and Jeremy Renner, who is very much not dead. Throw in Édgar Ramírez from the final film in the original trilogy and you've a decent battle royale going on. Karl Urban was left alive despite his villainous deeds in Supremacy, and is surely up for a bit of revenge.
Chuck them all into the mix and see where the dust settles, I say. I'm not saying they should all join together in a superteam, but I would love to see them all beating the snot out of each other.

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