Jason Bourne (2016)
- The incredible score for Jason Bourne was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Paul Greengrass originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
Jason Bourne is a 2016 American action thriller directed by Paul Greengrass, reuniting him with Matt Damon for the fourth time. The film follows Bourne, now living completely off the grid, who is drawn back into the world of espionage when his former CIA contact Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, hacks into the CIA's servers and discovers new information about Bourne's father's involvement in the Treadstone program. CIA Director Dewey, played by Tommy Lee Jones, dispatches an Asset, played by Vincent Cassel, to eliminate both Parsons and Bourne while cyber-operations head Heather Lee, played by Alicia Vikander, attempts to bring Bourne in alive.
Paul Greengrass's signature handheld intensity was deployed across set pieces in Athens during anti-austerity riots, Berlin, London, and a climactic Las Vegas car chase that was the franchise's most destructively spectacular sequence. The film earned $415 million worldwide on a $120 million budget.
