{"id":493857,"date":"2026-06-24T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493857\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:37:13","slug":"zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493857\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya Has Had Talks About &#8220;Bourne&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sony Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne\"\/><\/a>Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<p>A few months back came a rumour on social media that none other than Zendaya was being eyed to take the lead of a reboot or revival of the Jason Bourne franchise.<\/p>\n<p>A serious source was never found for what was a real left field rumour, and so it seemed to die a quick death. Now it has resurfaced with much more legitimacy, this time over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinsneider.com\/p\/jason-bourne-franchise-matt-damon-may-be-replaced-by-this-giant-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The InSneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sneider says he\u2019s not reporting today that she\u2019s landed the part, but she \u201cDEFINITELY had discussions about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Both Zendaya and previous Bourne franchise star Matt Damon both appear in the upcoming \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d and Zendaya is currently out doing \u201cSpider-Man\u201d promotional interviews, so this is one rumour that could be verified or quashed fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Sneider previously reported back in February that the new film was \u201cheating up\u201d with \u201csomething major going on in relation to casting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise overall has pulled in $1.64 billion at the global box office and is generally considered the most successful spy film franchise after James Bond.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/the-supergirl-reviews-are-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The \u201cSupergirl\u201d Reviews Are In<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/next-james-bond-audition-rounds-in-august\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next James Bond Audition Rounds In August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures A few months back came a rumour on social media that none other than Zendaya was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84767,430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-493857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bigslider","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}