The Bourne Identity: Book vs. Movie
Doug Liman’s 2002 film The Bourne Identity is adapted from Robert Ludlum’s 1980 novel. Both begin with an amnesiac man following the name Jason Bourne into a hidden life of espionage.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- Year
- 1980
- Pages
- 576Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 2 hr 7 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Darren McGavin
- Series
- Bourne, book 1
Pulled from the Mediterranean with gunshot wounds and no memory of his identity, a man follows a surgically implanted bank-account number to Zurich. The contents of the account point to the name Jason Bourne and a life built on aliases, violence, and espionage, while assassins and intelligence agencies close in before he can discover who he really is.
- Director
- Doug Liman
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy, William Blake Herron
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 1 hr 59 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
- Genre
- action, action thriller, Mystery, political thriller, spy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Fished from the Mediterranean with gunshot wounds and no memory, a man discovers a safe-deposit box filled with passports, cash, and the name Jason Bourne. He persuades traveler Marie Kreutz to drive him to Paris, but CIA operatives are already hunting him as he pieces together the failed assassination and secret program behind his lost identity.
Other books in this series
- 1The Bourne IdentityMovie · 2002You are here
- 2
The Bourne SupremacyMovie · 2004Details
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 1 hr 48 min
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Joan Allen
Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are living off the grid when a covert operation in Berlin is sabotaged and evidence is planted to implicate him. After an assassin destroys their refuge, Bourne returns to Europe to learn who framed him, forcing the CIA to confront both a new conspiracy and the consequences of its old program.
- 3
The Bourne UltimatumMovie · 2007Details
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Writer
- Robert Ludlum, Tony Gilroy, George Nolfi, Scott Z. Burns
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 1 hr 55 min
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Joan Allen
Jason Bourne follows a journalist’s investigation into his past and uncovers Blackbriar, a covert program linked to the operation that made him an assassin. Pursued across Europe and New York by intelligence officials determined to silence the story, he searches for the people and place that can finally explain how he became Bourne.
- 4
The Bourne LegacyMovie · 2012Details
- Director
- Tony Gilroy
- Writer
- Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 2 hr 15 min
- Cast
- Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Dennis Boutsikaris
After Jason Bourne exposes Treadstone and Blackbriar, government officials move to erase other covert programs and everyone connected to them. Outcome agent Aaron Cross survives an attempt to eliminate him and joins scientist Marta Shearing, whose research may help him survive as they flee the same system that created him.
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