Paul Greengrass of the original Bourne movies is probably ready to go for Star Wars.

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British director Paul Greengrass opened last year's festival with "United 93, " a subject close to the emotions of New Yorkers.

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The names of many directors, including Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass, have been linked with this project over the years.

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Matt Damon teams up again with the director Paul Greengrass, after their two excursions into the tranquil world of Jason Bourne.

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There it sat in a big dusty pile until director Paul Greengrass found it and sent it to Bonham Carter and Branagh.

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World Trade Center's insistence on up-close and personal heroics puts it at the opposite end of the spectrum from Paul Greengrass's austere United 93.

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He says director Paul Greengrass has done his subject justice.

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The actor's latest film Green Zone, also from troubled Universal, was pitched as a kind of Jason Bourne goes to Baghdad since it reunited Damon with his Bourne director Paul Greengrass.

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I'd love to see United 93 director Paul Greengrass grab the last slot, but it will probably go to Clint Eastwood, whose impressive one-two punch of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima will be impossible for the Clint-worshipping Academy to ignore.

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