Bourne 5 Starts Shooting, First Picture Released

It's been a long time coming, but finally, Matt Damon is back playing Jason Bourne.

Following the huge success of The Bourne Ultimatum back in 2007, both Damon and director Paul Greengrass toyed with making Bourne4 before ultimately departing the series. Universal instead turned to director Tony Gilroy and star Jeremy Renner for The Bourne Legacy, which didn't quite take off in the way the studio hoped. 

So it was something of a coup to lure back Damon and Greengrass for a new Bourne adventure, but that's exactly what's happened.

Bourne5, which is described as being set in a "post-Snowden world," sees Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones joining Damon and Julia Stiles in the cast. Producer Frank Marshall has tweeted the first picture of Damon back as Bourne from the set:

Bourne 5 (as it won't be called) is scheduled for release on July 29, 2016.