Corona | Coming Attractions

It's looking like a certainty that Matt Damon will star in The Adjustment Bureau, a new thriller with science fiction elements that was adapted from a Philip K. Dick story. Damon was attached to the project but now Universal Pictures, the studio behind the star's Bourne films, is working out a deal with the production company to help fund the film's budget.

Damon is currently working for Clint Eastwood The Human Factor and won't be available until this fall. That's fine for the Bureau film's schedule anyway. The ties to Damon's Bourne trilogy are also strengthened because Bureau's writer/director is George Nolfi, the screenwriter that worked on all three Bourne pictures.

In the movie Damon's character will be a congressman whose star is on the rise. After he meets a ballet dancer he finds that strange circumstances prevent the two from establishing a romantic relationship. The film is being budgeted in the low $60 million dollar range.