There are also hints of a possible romantic relationship between the two, but the films do not elaborate on that front.īy Ultimatum, Parsons has become Bourne’s ally, helping him and Landy fight some of the corruption in the CIA. She was Bourne’s handler during his Treadstone years, managing logistics for the agents and monitoring their health from her post in Berlin, so she has a deep knowledge of Bourne’s past that even he doesn’t fully remember. The only actor to appear in all the Matt Damon Bourne movies besides Damon himself, Julia Stiles plays Nicolette “Nicky” Parsons. In short, the secret-project genealogy goes:Įmerald Lake > Treadstone > Blackbriar/Outcome/Larx > whatever programs the agency has up its sleeve next.įor those hunting for Easter eggs, there’s a scene in Jason Bourne where the names of all these programs appear in a jump drive it’s the film’s only acknowledgment of the Renner timeline. (Basically, Universal was really planning on more Renner movies.) The precursor to all of these programs is something Emerald Lake, which Edward Norton’s character, Colonel Eric Byer, references at the start of Legacy, telling his team, “Get me all the beta programs, and that means take it all the way back to Emerald Lake.” ( Legacy happens more or less concurrently with Ultimatum.) At the end of Legacy we meet an agent from an “active beta” program called Larx, who is sent kill Cross.
In Legacy, Jeremy Renner’s character Aaron Cross is an operative from Outcome, a med-based enhancement program that was developed at nearly the same time as Blackbriar. Of course, there are other secret operations. Bourne eventually helps bring down Blackbriar by having deputy CIA director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) leak top-secret files about it and Treadstone to the press - though he has to stay on the lam, which is where we find him in Jason Bourne. When Treadstone gets too exposed at the end of Identity, the agency cancels that program and Blackbriar, an upgraded, spookier program, springs from its ashes. Think of a black-ops nesting doll, which starts with Treadstone, the program that made super spies like Bourne. Then, in Supremacy and Ultimatum, he’s pulled back into action, and goes even further down the rabbit hole to trace the origins of operations Treadstone and, later, Blackbriar. In Identity, he outwits those agents (sorry, Clive Owen), and disappears into the wind. (Remember these if you want to see a continuity nod in Jason Bourne.) Bourne, as we learned, is a highly effective assassin, and his existence is proof of a top-secret program called Treadstone, which is why the CIA sends assets to eliminate him. He had no memory, but there are bullets in his back. Or, if you haven’t seen any of the earlier Bourne movies, tons of spoilers.Īt the very beginning of Identity, Bourne’s body was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea. Since the mythology of the Bourne universe isn’t an oft-discussed subject, we figured a quick guide to the essential details from the original trilogy (plus a bit of Legacy) could be beneficial for anyone planning to take in the shaky-cam spectacle of Jason Bourne this weekend. Now, nine years and a brief tangent into the world of Jeremy Renner later, Bourne is back, and his history is as convoluted as ever. Or at least, he thought he had it all figured out.
As the blackest of black-ops agents, Bourne had traversed three movies’ worth of twists, turns, and thrills to figure out who turned him from a (fairly) ordinary guy named David Webb into a human killing machine know as Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows.īack in 2007, when we last saw Jason Bourne, he was giving the CIA an Ultimatum.
ALICIA VIKANDER as Heather Lee in “Jason Bourne,” the action-thriller in which Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role.
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