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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