FilmSeries· 2002· Action

Bourne

by Doug Liman

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Jason Bourne

Book · 1980

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The film series begins with an adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity: an amnesiac man pulled from the sea with a bank account number implanted in his hip learns that he is a trained assassin. The films keep the premise and the name and replace the novels' Cold War plots with a rogue CIA programme.

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Bourne

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Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for? The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel of the same name, it is the first installment in the Bourne franchise, and stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. In the film, Jason Bourne (Damon) has psychogenic amnesia and is forced to fight to unlock his identity and his mysterious connection to the CIA.