Matt Damon believes that his new movie Green Zone needs to attract the Bourne fans to be a success at the box office.
The Oscar nominated actor once again teams up with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum filmmaker Paul Greengrass for Green Zone, their third project together.
Speaking at the UK press conference the actor said: "The fundamental question was could we make a film that had audience appeal and get a good chunk of that Bourne audience over into a film that was about a fictional character in the real world rather than a fictional character in a fictional world.
The movie, which also stars Jason Issacs, is set during the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.
Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region.
Despite the success of The Hurt Locker at the Oscars this weekend Greengrass admitted that he was aware of how poorly Iraq movies had performed at the box office but believed that this was a movie that had to be made.
"It's pointless to pretend that [box office is] not an issue. It always felt to me, after Bourne Ultimatum, that the challenge for us was could we take a broad audience to this subject?
"It's important, in my mind anyway, that across the waterfront of cinema in a given year that it remains alive and engages directly in the world we live in."
Green Zone is released 12th March.
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