Artem Mozgovoy
By the late 1990s, the James Bond films no longer captivated audiences with the same sense of excitement they once had, and the entire spy genre slowly began to slide into either cheesy propaganda about their “perfect” agents or into mediocre blockbusters, forgettable after the first viewing.
Everything changed in 2001, when Doug Liman took the director’s chair to adapt the Jason Bourne books.
He felt America needed their answer to James Bond, something unique, something more familiar, but just as interesting and even more original.
Thus was born the idea for a hyper-grounded action film about a secret spy who has lost his memory and is trying to remember who he is and where he got his hand-to-hand combat skills from.
According to Matt Jason (who played Bourne in the trilogy) in a recent interview with GQ in honor of the release of “Odyssey,” the first film’s screenwriter, Tony Gilroy, hadn’t even read the book, using only the synopsis and claiming he completely understood the concept.
The films became hits and spawned a living franchise that people across the globe still remember and love. Perhaps the secret to their success lies in their alternative approach?
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