The Bourne Ultimatum

Director Paul Greengrass
Produced by Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg, Doug Liman
Written by Novel Robert Ludlum
Screen Story Tony Gilroy
Screenplay Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi Tom Stoppard (uncredited)
Starring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine,
Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, Joan Allen,
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Oliver Wood
Editing by Christopher Rouse
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Plot Outline: Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agent tries to track him down.

Running time 111 min
Country USA
Language English
Budget $110 Million
Gross revenue $244,539,830 (worldwide)


The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name.

A sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne Trilogy, it stars Matt Damon reprising his role as Ludlum's signature character, amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen co-star. The key cast members reprise their roles from the two previous Bourne movies, with additions such as Strathairn, playing a CIA department head; Paddy Considine as a British journalist; and Edgar Ramirez as a new assassin sent to kill Bourne. The film continues the saga of Jason Bourne after he survives the harrowing Bourne Supremacy car chase in Moscow, Russia, and follows the character as he travels to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins after him.

Paul Greengrass directed the film from a script by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi and an uncredited Tom Stoppard.[citation needed] The producers were Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg and Doug Liman, who directed the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007 in North America, where it grossed $69.3 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the highest August opening. The film was released on August 16, 2007, in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Singapore.

By the end of August 2007, the film was said to be on track to exceed the international box office gross of the first two films in the trilogy.


Cast

* Matt Damon as Jason Bourne (Captain David Webb): an amnesiac who was previously a CIA assassin, Bourne is trying to escape Moscow police at the beginning of the film, shortly after stopping a Russian assassin in an auto chase near the end of the previous film.
* David Strathairn as Noah Vosen: a CIA Deputy Director, Vosen is the head of Operation Blackbriar, a renamed and upgraded Operation Treadstone.
* Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: a CIA Deputy Director, Landy is working with Vosen to track and capture Bourne.
* Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons: formerly Bourne's Treadstone contact in Paris, she was assigned to Madrid after attempts to capture Bourne in Berlin and Russia failed.
* Paddy Considine as Simon Ross: a British journalist who has been uncovering the secrets behind the origin of Operation Treadstone, and Bourne's past.
* Albert Finney as Dr. Albert Hirsch: the CIA specialist who supervised Bourne's behavior modification training prior to Operation Treadstone.
* Scott Glenn as Ezra Kramer: Director of the CIA.
* Colin Stinton as Neal Daniels: CIA's Station Chief in Madrid.
* Joey Ansah as Desh Bouksani: a Blackbriar assassin quartered in North Africa.
* Edgar Ramirez as Paz: a Blackbriar assassin who is sent after Ross and Bourne.
* Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's deputy.
* Corey Johnson as Wills: Vosen's deputy at Operation Blackbriar.
* Sam Dang as Raymond Sykes: Deputy commander of CIA New York branch. Former field agent attached to Vosen.