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Bourne (franchise)
The ''Bourne'' franchise consists of action- thriller installments based on the character Jason Bourne, created by author Robert Ludlum. The franchise includes five films and a spin-off prequel/sequel television series. The overall plot centers around Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin suffering from dissociative amnesia, portrayed by Matt Damon. All three of Ludlum's novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon as the title character in each. Doug Liman directed '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002) and Paul Greengrass directed ''The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004), ''The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007), and ''Jason Bourne'' (2016). Tony Gilroy co-wrote each film except for ''Jason Bourne'' and directed '' The Bourne Legacy'' (2012). Damon chose not to return for the fourth film, ''The Bourne Legacy'', which introduces a new main character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a Department of Defense operative who runs for his life because of Bourne's actions in ''Ultimatum''. The character of Ja ...
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Doug Liman
Douglas Eric Liman (; born July 24, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films '' Swingers'' (1996), '' Go'' (1999), '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002), '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (2005), ''Jumper'' (2008), ''Edge of Tomorrow'' (2014), and '' American Made'' (2017). Most of his career has been associated with the production company Hypnotic. He is co-owner with Dave Bartis, whom he met as an undergraduate at Brown University where they co-founded Brown Television (BTV) and the National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB). Liman is on the advisory board of the Legal Action Center and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School. Early life and education Liman was born in New York City, the son of Ellen (''née'' Fogelson), a painter and writer, and Arthur L. Liman, a lawyer well known for his public service, which included serving as chief counsel for the Senate Iran-Contra hearings. Liman is Jewish, from a prominent New ...
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Psychogenic Amnesia
Psychogenic amnesia or dissociative amnesia is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years to decades. More recently, "dissociative amnesia" has been defined as a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature." In a change from the DSM-IV to the DSM-5, dissociative fugue is now subsumed under dissociative amnesia. The atypical clinical syndrome of the memory disorder (as opposed to organic amnesia) is that a person with psychogenic amnesia is profoundly unable to remember personal information about themselves; there is a lack of conscious self-knowledge which affects even simple self-knowledge, such as who they are. Psychogenic amnesia is distinguished from organic amnesia in that it is supposed to result from a nonorganic cause: no structural brain ...
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George Nolfi
George Nolfi (born June 10, 1968) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut in 2011 with sci-fi action, romance thriller, ''The Adjustment Bureau'' starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Nolfi's work has been known to blend genres and employ tones ranging from serious to comedic. His stories often have protagonists who are exceptional at what they do; touch on central themes of philosophy, the human condition or world politics; and convey some form of social commentary. Early life Nolfi was born in Boston. He graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in public policy and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University where he studied philosophy. He then entered the PhD program in political science at University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA with an eye toward a career in government and academia. Career While working on his PhD dissertation at UCLA in 1997, Nolfi sold his first spec script, ''Pathfinder'', in ...
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Frank Marshall (filmmaker)
Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy. With Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company which has a contract with Amblin Partners. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal."The Kennedy/Marshall Company – About"
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Richard N
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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William Blake Herron
William Blake Herron is an American screenwriter, director and actor, best known for contributing to the screenplay for '' The Bourne Identity''. Early life Born in Texas, Herron grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and later Faribault, Minnesota. His Texan parents provided inspiration for his film, '' A Texas Funeral''. He studied acting at Middlebury College and the Pushkin Institute, before performing with various bands and working as a paralegal. Career Shifting from law to screenwriting, Herron was a semi-finalist of the Nichol Fellowship, and the top twenty of the Sundance Writer’s Lab, the prestige of which helped land him an assignment at Warner Bros. He contributed, uncredited, to the screenplay for 1991's ''Eye of the Widow'', as well as wrote on television series such as ''The Lazarus Man''. Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to Robert Ludlum's ''Bourne'' books in the hopes of starting a franchise. After Tony Gilroy, Herron was brought in to rewrite the script in 199 ...
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Computer-generated Imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos. The images may be static (still images) or dynamic (moving images), in which case CGI is also called ''computer animation''. CGI may be two-dimensional (2D), although the term "CGI" is most commonly used to refer to the 3-D computer graphics used for creating characters, scenes and special effects in films and television, which is described as "CGI animation". The first feature film to make use of CGI was the 1973 film ''Westworld''. Other early films that incorporated CGI include ''Star Wars'' (1977), ''Tron'' (1982), '' Golgo 13: The Professional'' (1983), ''The Last Starfighter'' (1984), ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985) and ''Flight of the Navigator'' (1986). The first music video to use CGI was Dire Straits' award-winning " Money for Nothing" (1 ...
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Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He began his career by appearing in independent films such as '' Dahmer'' (2002) and ''Neo Ned'' (2005), then supporting roles in bigger films, such as ''S.W.A.T.'' (2003) and '' 28 Weeks Later'' (2007). Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''The Hurt Locker'' (2008) and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' The Town'' (2010). Renner played Clint Barton / Hawkeye, a member of the Avengers in several Marvel Cinematic Universe films and television series beginning in 2011 film ''Thor'', leading to the central title role in the Disney+ series '' Hawkeye'' (2021). He also appeared in '' Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'' (2011), '' The Bourne Legacy'' (2012), '' Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters'' (2013), '' American Hustle'' (2013), '' Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation'' (2015), and ''Arrival'' (2016). Earl ...
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The Bourne Legacy (film)
''The Bourne Legacy'' is a 2012 American action-thriller film directed by Tony Gilroy, and is the fourth installment in the series of films adapted from the ''Jason Bourne'' novels originated by Robert Ludlum and continued by Eric Van Lustbader, being preceded by '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002), ''The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004), and '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007). The film centers on black ops agent Aaron Cross (portrayed by Jeremy Renner), an original character. In addition to Renner, the film stars Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton. ''The Bourne Legacy'' is the only film in the franchise that does not feature the titular character Jason Bourne, as actor Matt Damon chose not to return due to Paul Greengrass not directing. Bourne is shown in pictures and mentioned by name several times throughout the film. Tony Gilroy, co-screenwriter of the first three films, sought to continue the story of the film series without changing its key events, and parts of ''The Bourne Legacy'' tak ...
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Jason Bourne (film)
''Jason Bourne'' is a 2016 American action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and written by Greengrass and Christopher Rouse. It is the fifth installment of the ''Bourne'' film series and a direct sequel to '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007). Matt Damon reprises his role as the main character, former CIA assassin Jason Bourne. In addition, the film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, and Scott Shepherd. The character Aaron Cross, from '' The Bourne Legacy'' (2012), does not appear in the film because director Greengrass wanted to focus on the title character, and because actor Jeremy Renner was unable to participate due to scheduling conflicts. In ''Jason Bourne'', Bourne remains on the run from CIA hit squads as he tries to uncover hidden truths about his father, while CIA director Robert Dewey (Jones) orders the head of cyber-security Heather Lee (Vikander) to hunt him down. Principal photography on the film ...
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The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
''The Bourne Ultimatum'' is a 2007 action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass loosely based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi and based on a screen story of the novel by Gilroy. ''The Bourne Ultimatum'' is the third installment in the ''Jason Bourne'' film series, after '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002) and ''The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004). The fourth film, '' The Bourne Legacy'', was released in August 2012, without the involvement of Damon, and the fifth film (a direct sequel to ''Ultimatum''), ''Jason Bourne'', was released in July 2016. Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. In the film, Bourne continues his search for information about his past before he was part of Operation Treadstone and becomes a target of a similar assassin program. ''The Bourne Ultimatum'' was produced by Universal Pictu ...
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The Bourne Supremacy (film)
''The Bourne Supremacy'' is a 2004 action-thriller film featuring Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne character. Although it takes the name of the second Bourne novel (1986), its plot is entirely different. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. It is the second installment in the ''Jason Bourne'' film series. It is preceded by '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002) and followed by '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007), '' The Bourne Legacy'' (2012), and ''Jason Bourne'' (2016). ''The Bourne Supremacy'' continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia. Bourne is portrayed by Matt Damon. The film focuses on his attempt to learn more of his past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy involving the CIA and Operation Treadstone. The film also stars Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, and Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on Ju ...
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