Bourne exposes Abbott to Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), the CIA agent in charge of finding Bourne, and Abbott commits suicide. Abbott meant to implicate Bourne in the theft with the frameup, which would have led the CIA on a wild goose chase had Bourne been killed as intended. Bourne discovers that Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), one of the men who oversaw Operation Treadstone, the program which trained Bourne to be an assassin, stole millions of dollars from the CIA. A subsequent attempt on his life results in Marie’s death, so he decides to take revenge by hunting down those responsible for her death and his forgotten past, thinking that the CIA is hunting him again.
Some two years after learning that he is a trained assassin and breaking his connections with the CIA, Jason Bourne is framed for a crime connected to one of his past missions. Bourne’s conflict with the CIA reaches a climax when he takes the fight to their doorstep. Bourne breaks his connections to the CIA and unites with Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), a woman who helped him learn about his most recent actions prior to his memory loss. He subsequently attempts to discover his true identity while countering attempts on his life by CIA assassins, eventually realizing that he is one such assassin who failed to complete his most recent mission.
Upon reaching shore, the man assumes the name Jason Bourne after finding a passport under the name in the safe deposit box, along with other international passports, large amounts of assorted currencies, and a gun. You can read them:Īnd/or you could watch the movies in full:Ī man (Matt Damon) is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshot wounds in his back and a device with the number of a Swiss safe deposit box embedded in his hip. The Bourne films are quite different from the Bourne novels. When Robert Ludlum passed away in 2001, his Estate turned to bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader (Ludlum’s friend) to continue the Bourne novels, the first of which is The Bourne Legacy (2004).
The fourth adaptation for the screen, The Bourne Legacy (2012), starring Jeremy Renner, was directed by Tony Gilroy who also co-wrote each of the preceding Bourne films. Doug Liman directed The Bourne Identity (2002), Paul Greengrass directed The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). The Bourne films are a series of action/thriller spy films based on the character Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss, created by author Robert Ludlum.Īll three of Ludlum’s novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon as the titular character in each.
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