![]() A medically competent crew member extracts a surgically embedded laser projectile from his thigh when activated it displays the number of a safety deposit box in a Zurich bank. He is rescued by a commercial fishing ship bound eventually for Marseille: but more exactly, he is reborn, having emerged nameless from the amniotic waters, with stigmata-like gunshot wounds in his back which heal with great speed, and suffering from near total Amnesia. In the Mediterranean Sea, out of sight of land, a man (Damon) is found floating, arms spread as though he had been crucified. Cast includes Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Matt Damon, Franka Potente and Julia Stiles. ![]() Written by Tony Gilroy and W Blake Herron, based on The Bourne Identity ( 1980) by Robert Ludlum. Universal Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company/Hypnotic/Kalima Productions/Stillking Films. ![]() ![]() A much earlier made-for-television version of the first book – released as The Bourne Identity ( 1988), directed by Roger Young – adheres closely to Ludlum's essentially non-fantastic thriller format, with a kindly view of the CIA it is not discussed below.ġ. ![]() Very loosely based on the Jason Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum and subsequently Eric Van Lustbader, the Bourne films comprise one tightly-knit trilogy starring Matt Damon plus the first of a projected series of continuations starring Jeremy Renner as a differently modified CIA operative, who is also on the run plus a late continuation of the original story – perhaps because the outlier parallel story tanked – again with Damon. ![]()
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