The Bourne Ultimatum: Book vs. Movie
Paul Greengrass’s 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum takes its title and central character from Robert Ludlum’s 1990 novel. Each follows Bourne toward a final reckoning with the covert life he tried to escape.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- Year
- 1990
- Pages
- 720Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 29 hr 23 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Series
- Bourne, book 3
Years after abandoning his assassin identity, David Webb learns that Carlos the Jackal has returned to finish their rivalry. Webb reunites with former allies and revives Jason Bourne as bait, beginning a final pursuit across the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union while Carlos strikes at the people Webb loves.
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Writer
- Robert Ludlum, Tony Gilroy, George Nolfi, Scott Z. Burns
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 1 hr 55 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Joan Allen
- Genre
- action, action thriller, Mystery, spy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
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.
- 3The Bourne UltimatumMovie · 2007You are here
- 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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