![]() ![]() Do you remember that Walton Goggins played a CIA analyst in The Bourne Identity? Well he did and wouldn’t it make sense to bring him back in another film instead of casting a new actor for essentially the exact same role. According to the Bourne films the CIA seems to shuffle around its staff on an annual basis with very few characters/actors returning for the next film other than Joan Allen as Pam Landy, Brian Cox as Ward Abbot and Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons. So how exactly do the Bourne films reinvent themselves enough to become a sustainable franchise without losing what made them so special to begin with?įor Bourne to truly become a franchise it needs a much greater sense of continuity with several supporting characters appearing in more than one film. Despite being a fairly irrelevant film I enjoyed Jason Bourne a lot, about on par with The Bourne Supremacy, the weakest of the original trilogy, but the movie garnered a mixed reception from both critics and audiences which makes it apparent the old Bourne formula just isn’t enough anymore especially after Bond and other franchises have been copying it for years. The Bourne Legacy has now seemingly become the estranged relative of the Bourne franchise, purposely being pushed aside to cater for the return of Jason Bourne himself. However soon ‘The Bourne Legacy’ was released giving us everything you expect from a Bourne film just without Jason Bourne himself, instead Jeremy Renner took centre stage as Aaron Cross. ![]() To call the Bourne films a franchise is still a little weird because for years we only had the Bourne trilogy – comprised of Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum – which concluded Jason’s narrative in a richly satisfying way with Bourne floating in the water after being shot in the back bookending the trilogy while Moby’s Extreme Ways plays for what we thought would be the final time. The following article contains spoilers for the recently released film ‘Jason Bourne’.Īfter a lengthy hiatus the ‘Bourne’ film franchise returned this year with the no nonsense if not slightly lame titled ‘Jason Bourne’ with series veterans Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass both returning.
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