The Bourne Supremacy: Book vs. Movie
Paul Greengrass’s 2004 film The Bourne Supremacy takes its title and characters from Robert Ludlum’s 1986 novel. Both pull Jason Bourne back into espionage after an attack on the quiet life he built with Marie.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- Year
- 1986
- Pages
- 679Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 27 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Series
- Bourne, book 2
David Webb has tried to leave Jason Bourne behind, but an assassin using the Bourne name is destabilizing Hong Kong and threatening an international crisis. When Marie is taken to force his cooperation, Webb resurrects his deadly alter ego and enters a contest of deception in which governments and killers are manipulating him from every side.
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 1 hr 48 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Joan Allen
- Genre
- action, action thriller, spy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
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.
- 2The Bourne SupremacyMovie · 2004You are here
- 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.
No comments yet. Vote, then say why.