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The Bourne Supremacy

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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 July 23, 2004, to positive reviews and commercial success, grossing $290 million on a $75 million budget.

Storyline[]

Plot[]

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is living in India when he is framed by Russian agent Kirill (Karl Urban) for the theft of millions from the CIA. Kirill begins to pursue Bourne, intending to assassinate him -- but while Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie (Franka Potente), are on the run, a shot meant for him kills her instead. Vowing revenge, Bourne sets out to prove his innocence and bring the culprits to justice, but he has to evade CIA head Pamela Landry (Joan Allen), who is convinced he is guilty.

Genres[]

  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Drama
  • Action Thriller
  • Crime film
  • Mystery

Motion Picture Rating[]

  • 13 (Argentina)
  • M (Australia)
  • 12 (Austria)
  • 14 (Brazil)
  • PG (Canada)
  • 12 (Czechia)
  • 11 (Denmark)
  • K-12 (Finland)
  • Tous publics (France)
  • 12 (Germany) (f)
  • IIA (Hong Kong)
  • 14 (Iceland) (original rating)
  • 12 (Iceland) (video rating)
  • A (India)
  • U (India) (Chennai, TV rating)
  • 16+ (Indonesia) (self-applied)
  • 15 (Ireland)
  • 12 (Ireland)
  • 12PG (Ireland) (original rating)
  • T (Italy)
  • 18SG (Malaysia)
  • B (Mexico)
  • 12 (Netherlands)
  • M (New Zealand)
  • 12 (Norway) (Netflix self-rating)
  • 15 (Norway) (cinema rating)
  • PG-13 (Philippines)
  • 12 (Poland) (self-applied)
  • M/12 (Portugal)
  • 16+ (Russia)
  • PG (Singapore)
  • PG13 (Singapore) (Netflix)
  • 15 (South Korea)
  • 13 (Spain) (ICAA)
  • 11 (Sweden)
  • 14 (Switzerland) (canton of Geneva)
  • 14 (Switzerland) (canton of Vaud)
  • 14 (Switzerland) (canton of Zurich)
  • 13+ (Turkey) (self-applied)
  • 12A (UK)
  • 12 (UK) (DVD rating)
  • PG-13 (USA)
  • 16+ (United Arab Emirates) (self-applied)

Images[]

Cast and Crew[]

Director[]

  • Paul Greengrass

Writing Credits[]

  • Robert Ludlum (novel)
  • Tony Gilroy (screenplay)

Cast[]

  • Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
  • Franka Potente - Marie
  • Brian Cox - Ward Abbott
  • Julia Stiles - Nicky
  • Karl Urban - Kirill
  • Gabriel Mann - Danny Zorn
  • Joan Allen - Pamela Landy
  • Marton Csokas - Jarda
  • Tom Gallop - Tom Cronin
  • John Bedford Lloyd - Teddy
  • Ethan Sandler - Kurt
  • Michelle Monaghan - Kim
  • Karel Roden - Gretkov
  • Tomas Arana - Martin Marshall
  • Oksana Akinshina - Irena Neski
  • Yevgeni Sitokhin - Mr. Neski (as Jevgeni Sitochin)
  • Marina Weis - Mrs. Neski (as Marina Weis-Burgaslieva)
  • Tim Griffin - Nevins
  • Sean Smith - Vic
  • Maxim Kovalevski - Ivan
  • Patrick Crowley - Jack Weller
  • Jon Collin Barclay - Jarhead (as Jon Collin)
  • Sam Brown - Jarhead
  • Shane Sinutko - Jarhead
  • Barnaby Smith - CIA Techie (as Barnaby P. Smith Jr.)
  • Dominique Chiout - Waitress
  • Wanja Mues - Night Clerk
  • Aleksey Shmarinov - Moscow Taxi Driver
  • Stephan Wolf-Schönburg - Suspicious Cop
  • Olov Ludwig - Market Security Guard
  • Keshav Nadkarni - Mr. Mohan
  • Violetta Grafin Tarnowska Bronner - Neski Neighbor (as Violetta Gräfin Tarnowska Bronner)
  • Alexey Medvedev - Young Cop (as Aleksei Medvedev)
  • Aleksandr Dubina - 2nd Cop (as Aleksander Doobina)
  • Aleksandr Boev - 2nd Taxi Driver (as Alexander Boyev)
  • Claudio Maniscalco - Immigration Officer
  • Manfred Witt - Doorman
  • Aleksey Trotsenko - Vodka Police Passenger (as Alexsei Trotsenko)
  • Victoria Unikel - Mercedes Driver
  • Oksana Semenova - Mercedes Passenger
  • Vitaliy Abdulov - Volga Taxi Owner (as Vitalei Abdulov)
  • Dirk Schoedon - Berlin Taxi Driver
  • Ivan Shvedoff - Moscow Policeman
  • Denis Burgazliev - Moscow Policeman
  • Nick Wilder - Delta C.O.

Producers[]

  • Patrick Crowley (producer)
  • Doug Liman (executive producer)
  • Frank Marshall (producer)
  • Henning Molfenter (associate producer)
  • Henry Morrison (executive producer)
  • Colin J. O'Hara (associate producer) (as Colin O'Hara)
  • Thierry Potok (associate producer)
  • Paul Sandberg (producer) (as Paul L. Sandberg)
  • Andrew R. Tennenbaum (co-producer)
  • Jeffrey M. Weiner (executive producer)

Details[]

Countries[]

  • USA
  • Australia

Language[]

  • English
  • Russian

Release Dates[]

  • July 23, 2004 (Canada)
  • July 23, 2004 (USA)
  • August 6, 2004 (South Korea)
  • August 13, 2004 (UK)
  • August 13, 2004 (Ireland)
  • August 19, 2004 (Hong Kong)
  • August 19, 2004 (Indonesia)
  • August 20, 2004 (Taiwan)
  • August 25, 2004 (United Arab Emirates)
  • August 25, 2004 (Bahrain)
  • August 25, 2004 (Ecuador)
  • August 25, 2004 (Egypt)
  • August 25, 2004 (Kuwait)
  • August 26, 2004 (Australia)
  • August 26, 2004 (Israel)
  • August 26, 2004 (New Zealand)
  • August 26, 2004 (Thailand)
  • August 27, 2004 (Iceland)
  • September 1, 2004 (Malta)
  • September 2, 2004 (Russia)
  • September 2, 2004 (Ukraine)
  • September 3, 2004 (Kazakhstan)
  • September 3, 2004 (Mexico)
  • September 3, 2004 (Poland)
  • September 8, 2004 (Belgium)
  • September 8, 2004 (Switzerland) (French speaking region)
  • September 8, 2004 (France)
  • September 9, 2004 (Netherlands)
  • September 16, 2004 (Portugal)
  • September 17, 2004 (Spain)
  • September 17, 2004 (Greece)
  • September 17, 2004 (Sweden)
  • September 22, 2004 (Philippines)
  • September 23, 2004 (Georgia)
  • September 23, 2004 (Slovenia)
  • September 24, 2004 (Brazil)
  • September 24, 2004 (Switzerland) (Italian speaking region)
  • September 24, 2004 (Estonia)
  • September 24, 2004 (Italy)
  • September 24, 2004 (Lithuania)
  • September 24, 2004 (Panama)
  • September 30, 2004 (Argentina)
  • September 30, 2004 (Hungary)
  • September 30, 2004 (Lebanon)
  • September 30, 2004 (Singapore)
  • October 1, 2004 (Finland)
  • October 1, 2004 (Norway)
  • October 1, 2004 (Turkey)
  • October 3, 2004 (Republic of North Macedonia)
  • October 7, 2004 (Czechia)
  • October 7, 2004 (Malaysia)
  • October 7, 2004 (Slovakia)
  • October 8, 2004 (Denmark)
  • October 8, 2004 (Latvia)
  • October 9, 2004 (India)
  • October 14, 2004 (Serbia)
  • October 15, 2004 (Cyprus)
  • October 15, 2004 (Kenya)
  • October 15, 2004 (South Africa)
  • October 21, 2004 (Switzerland) (German speaking region)
  • October 21, 2004 (Germany)
  • October 21, 2004 (Croatia)
  • October 22, 2004 (Austria)
  • October 22, 2004 (Colombia)
  • October 22, 2004 (Romania)
  • November 4, 2004 (Peru)
  • November 5, 2004 (Venezuela)
  • November 11, 2004 (Chile)
  • November 14, 2004 (China)
  • December 3, 2004 (Bulgaria)
  • February 11, 2005 (Japan)
  • September 20, 2009 (UK) (Cambridge) (Cambridge Film Festival)
  • April 6, 2019 (China) (Beijing International Film Festival)

Home Media Release Dates[]

  • May 31, 2005 (UK) (DVD)
  • May 21, 2005 (UK) (VHS)

Production[]

There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one.'" According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot for the sequel was not only based on the novel The Bourne Supremacy but also on Bourne's threat in the first film to come after the CIA if it targeted him. Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that screenwriter Tony Gilroy's deviating so much from the book was necessary "because so much of the world has changed" since 1986, when the sequel was first published. Marshall said that Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this journey of atonement."

The producers replaced Doug Liman, who directed The Bourne Identity. This was mainly due to the difficulties Liman had with the studio when making the first film, and their unwillingness to work with him again. British director Paul Greengrass was selected to direct the film after the producers saw Bloody Sunday (2002), Greengrass' depiction of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, at Gilroy's suggestion. Producer Patrick Crowley liked Greengrass' "sense of the camera as participatory viewer", a visual style Crowley thought would work well for The Bourne Supremacy. The film was shot in reverse order of its settings: some portions of the car chase and the film's ending were shot in Moscow, then most of the rest of the film was shot in and around Berlin, and the opening scenes in Goa, India were filmed last.

"Two weeks before [the film's] release, [Greengrass] got together with its star, Matt Damon, came up with a new ending and phoned the producers saying the new idea was way better. And it would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's Twelve for a re-shoot. Reluctantly the producers agreed—the movie tested 10 points higher with the new ending".

Reception[]

Box office[]

The Bourne Supremacy brought in over $52,521,865 on its opening weekend, putting it at No. 1 for the weekend box office (July 23–25, 2004). The film went to gross over $176,241,941 (61.1%) in North America, with the international release being $112,258,276 (38.9%) resulting in a complete total of $288,500,217 worldwide.

Critical response[]

The film has a 7.7 rating on IMDb and a 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Company Credits[]

Production Companies[]

Distributors[]

Special Effects[]

  • Pixel Liberation Front (pre-visualization)
  • Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) (special visual effects)
  • Pacific Title and Art Studio (digital opticals and visual effects)
  • CIS Hollywood (additional visual effects)
  • Snow Business International (snow effects)
  • Snow Business (snow effects)

Technical Specs[]

Runtime[]

  • 108 mins

Color[]

  • Color

Aspect Ratio[]

  • 2.39:1

Trivia[]

  • To give this movie its gritty, documentary-style appearance, director Paul Greengrass used mostly handheld cameras, and a muted color palette. Greengrass also made sure to avoid computer graphics at all costs, and all of the stunts shown in the movie were achieved practically.
  • Unlike the James Bond franchise, all the devices that Bourne uses are real and can be purchased by the average citizen.
  • In the house in Munich, when Jason Bourne uses the rolled newspaper as a weapon, the martial art he performs is derived from Escrima, an old Philippine martial art, also called Arnis or Kali. This fighting style mainly uses sticks to fight, and in modern times the use of everyday objects is taught, including ball pens (as seen in The Bourne Identity (2002) and rolled up newspapers. In the film it is combined with Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. The fighting syle of Jeet Kun Do was also shown in the film, Rapid Fire (1992) with late actor, Brandon Lee. Jeff Imada, served as a stunt coordinator for both projects.
  • Regarding the famous use of a rolled-up magazine as a weapon, fight coordinator Jeff Imada explained, "I would go around the set after it had been dressed and get an idea of what would be lying around and how it could be used as a weapon. I came up with the idea of using a rolled up magazine and had to convince a few people that would actually be a functional weapon. I had to demonstrate it by rolling it up and hitting it on the table to show how hard the impact would be. And also Matt [Damon] and Marton [Csokas] verified that the magazine would actually hurt because they'd be hitting each other in the arm before takes and would actually get bruises from it."
  • Virtually all of the events in the movie were shot in the reverse order of location. This means scenes in Moscow were shot first and those in Goa were shot last.
  • Unlike The Bourne Identity (2002), screenwriter Tony Gilroy read the book this time and claimed that he did a re-imagination, not an adaptation, of the novel. Gilroy wrote an original screenplay using key events and characters from the novel as a framework, though he replaced the traditional Carlos The Jackal-type villain with Kirill.
  • Jason Bourne never smiles in the movie, except in a picture.
  • The average length of a shot is 1.9 seconds.
  • The first scene shot was the scene in Moscow where Bourne speaks to a taxi driver and arranges to pay in Dollars.
  • The address of the Hotel Becker, where Neski was killed, is shown to be Kurfürstendamm 288. This address no longer exists but was the historical location of the Romanisches Café, a meeting place for intellectuals in pre-war Berlin.
  • Producer Frank Marshall selected Paul Greengrass as director after he'd seen Greengrass's Bloody Sunday (2002). Marshall was after a director who wasn't intrinsically associated with the action genre, feeling that Greengrass would impart an original spin of his own to the script.
  • In early drafts of the script, Kirill was known only as "Mock-Bourne".
  • In Berlin, after researching Pam Landy's hotel, Bourne drives past a demonstration against globalization by activist organization ATTAC. The posters on the wall behind the man with the flag on the sidewalk read "Die Welt ist keine Ware", which means "The world is not for sale".
  • In a 2012 BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture, uncredited screenwriter Brian Helgeland explained that part of Tony Gilroy's initial script was set in the USSR, even though that government had fallen over 10 years earlier. Helgeland was brought on five days before production began and completely rewrote Gilroy's script. Although the studio rejected the new script, they did change the USSR setting. Throughout production, Paul Greengrass would change Gilroy's script with Helgeland's, resulting in the final film.
  • The taxi that Bourne drives during the car chase is a Russian-made Volga 3110.
  • Karl Urban (Kirill) and Marton Csokas (Jarda) are both alumnus of Shortland Street (1992-), New Zealands longest running soap opera. Were both part of the cast 1993-1994.
  • Bourne carries a SIG-Sauer P225 (the same model gun he takes from cops in The Bourne Identity (2002)). There is some confusion over the model of the gun because Bourne shoots 12 rounds through it without reloading and a real P225 only holds 8 rounds in the magazine plus one in the chamber. Kirill uses a P99 and Jarda a Beretta 92FS.
  • The 14 November 2003 draft of the screenplay credits Brian Helgeland for a rewrite. He is not credited in the final film.
  • The rifle Bourne is holding on the DVD cover is a Blaser R93 Sniper Rifle.
  • In the last street scene just before the end of the movie, the famous Radioman appears pushing his bike, carrying his radio around his neck.
  • While the film's storyline in no way follows it's novel counterpart "The Bourne Supremacy", both stories do begin similarly. In both instances, Jason and Marie are enjoying a domestic life while an unknown assassin frames Jason Bourne for his kills.
  • Brian Cox and Joan Allen previously appeared together in Manhunter (1986).
  • The phone that Jason Bourne uses is a Siemens ME45.
  • At around 1:13, Ward goes to collect Nicky in 'Amsterdam'. The place where they meet is not Amsterdam, though. It's actually in Berlin, at the Walter-Benjamin-Platz.

Connections[]

Follows[]

Followed by[]

Edited into[]

  • The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - The view from Pam Landy's office just when Bourne has hung up after saying she looks tired - the rest of the scene was re-shot
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