It just finished its first season, and there are reports about a sixth Bourne film underway, with Paul Greengrass possibly directing (he directed four Bourne films). There’s also a TV show, Treadstone, which rounds out the Jason Bourne Universe by delving into the background of the CIA program that trained assassins like Bourne. The movies primarily focus on Damon as Bourne, a CIA-controlled assassin who loses his memory and begins a journey to discover his identity, ultimately turning him against his handlers at the CIA. While we don’t have 90 seconds, we can reiterate the Bourne franchise in 100 words** or less.The Jason Bourne films brought the world of spycraft and CIA-ordered assassinations into the new millennium – while also turning Matt Damon into a full-blown Hollywood action star.
Universal had the same idea, and released a clip of Damon trying to recap the whole thing in 90 seconds, but unfortunately the video decided to breeze past some very important details about Damon’s amnesiac covert-ops character.
And so, as a service to you, we’d like to catch you up with all all the convoluted twists and turns the Bourne series has to offer, from Damon’s debut in 2002’s original to the wonderfully forgettable 2012 spinoff The Bourne Legacy.
The Bourne franchise was one of the most important and influential action series of the last decade, noted for its gritty realism instead of the increasing use of spy movie CG fakery.Īnd yet, despite (or perhaps because of) its incredible action set pieces - like the Waterloo Station sequence in The Bourne Ultimatum or the absolutely bonkers car chase in The Bourne Identity - the franchise isn’t particularly known for its deft storytelling prowess. With the release of Jason Bourne on July 29, Matt Damon returns to the role that made him into a bona fide action star way back in the early aughts.
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