The Bourne Legacy: Book vs. Movie
The Bourne Legacy is Tony Gilroy's 2012 movie, adapted from Robert Ludlum, Brian Freeman and Eric Van Lustbader's 2005 book The Bourne Legacy. It stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Dennis Boutsikaris.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert Ludlum, Brian Freeman, Eric Van Lustbader
- Year
- 2005
- Pages
- 535Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 18 hrGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Series
- Bourne, book 4
Retired CIA operative David Webb is teaching at Georgetown when an assassin targets him and he is framed for the murders of two close associates. Forced to become Jason Bourne again, he goes on the run from the CIA while tracking the person behind the attack, only to discover that his enemy’s personal vendetta is part of a larger international terrorist plot.
- Director
- Tony Gilroy
- Writer
- Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 2 hr 15 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Dennis Boutsikaris
- Genre
- action, action thriller, Adventure, spy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
Other books in this series
- 1
The Bourne IdentityMovie · 2002Details
- Director
- Doug Liman
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy, William Blake Herron
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 1 hr 59 min
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
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.
- 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.
- 4The Bourne LegacyMovie · 2012You are here
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