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Donna Murphy, Dennis Boutsikaris, Zeljko Ivanek, Robert Prescott, Tom Riis Farrell, and Corey Stoll all appeared on Law & Order (1990) in various points in both the original series or one of it's spin-offs (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)). Stoll appeared on the short lived Law & Order: LA (2010) as one of the shows' main leads. Ivanek appeared in a few episodes of the show as part of a crossover episode with the series, Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), as well as a few episodes as another character.
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Blake Lively, Milla Jovovich, Kristin Kreuk, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Beckinsale, Kate Mara, Kate Bosworth, Diane Kruger, Eliza Dushku, Elizabeth Olsen, Michelle Monaghan, and Sarah Michelle Gellar were considered for the role of Dr. Marta Shearing.
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By the end of the film, at the last shot, Aaron and Marta are on board a small ship, and that scene was shot in Palawan, the Philippines. Local newspaper The Philippine Star reports that Rachel Weisz was so awed by the beauty of the place that she declared that she could live in Palawan forever. The rest of the cast also expressed their amazement at being in such an exotically beautiful spot.
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The film's storyline parallels the events of The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), as the Blackbriar project instituted at the end of the original film was fully activated even as the C.I.A. was still on the hunt for Jason Bourne.
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The items that were used by Aaron Cross to make the passport/ID are: A disposable camera, a large magnifying glass, a soldering iron, bubble gum, a picture of Martha Shearing and of course, an empty or another person's passport.
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Outcome, the program Edward Norton's character heads, is jeopardized by Matt Damon's character, Jason Bourne, even though Bourne never physically appears in the movie. Norton and Damon co-starred in Rounders (1998).
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The main character's code name is "Aaron Cross". Jason Bourne's German girlfriend in The Bourne Identity (2002) is Marie Kreutz. Kreuz is the German word for "cross".
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The character Jason Bourne alias David Webb from three novels by Robert Ludlum was licensed out to Eric Van Lustbader to continue the life and adventures of that character, starting with The Bourne Legacy. However, as with most films in this series, this movie is an original screenplay using only the title of that novel.
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The message scrawled on the mirror in the hotel room, "No More", is an anagram of Marta's travelling name, "Monroe".
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Zeljko Ivanek who plays the lab technician who goes berserk in the lab where Rachel Weisz barely escapes, may have been a member of the Blackbriar project as either a sleeper agent or one of the later Outcomes and this is inferred when Renner tells Weisz in the car his own reasons why he went crazy inside the lab to eliminate all traces of the Project after it was ordered to be terminated early in the film by Edward Norton's character.
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The first Bourne film not shot by cinematographer Oliver Wood.
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When Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) explains the origins of viral engineering, she refers to a 1985 incident at a U.S. Army base named Fort Detrick. Fort Detrick is an actual U.S. Army base and, during the early Cold War, was the home of the U.S.'s biological weapons program until then President Nixon closed down the program in 1969.
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Before this movie was seriously considered, Director Paul Greengrass (who helmed two earlier installments of this series) jokingly suggested to make a fourth Bourne movie called "The Bourne Redundancy".
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Jeremy Renner doesn't say a word until fifteen minutes and seven seconds into the film.
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When Aaron Cross arrives in Chicago, he finds the car containing passports, ID's (both with different names/aliases), money and a gun in the inside panel of the car door. This is almost identical to The Bourne Identity (2002) where Matt Damon goes to the bank to retrieve the safe deposit box that also contains several different passports, ID's (both with different names/aliases), money, and a gun as well.
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When asked about his most difficult scene, Jeremy Renner revealed that it was the motorcycle ride with Rachel Weisz behind him in Manila, because he was responsible for the two of them. At the press conference of the film, Weisz was asked about this particular stunt, "How was it to ride on a motorcycle through Manila with Jeremy Renner?" and she said that "It was really terrifying! Jeremy never told me when we were in Manila, but that was the scariest stunt for him because he was responsible for my life. He didn't tell me that in Manila, thank god, because I would have been like, 'Oh, my god!' I just had to surrender and hold on. I didn't have to act. It just was terrifying".
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The opening shot of the film of a body floating in water mirrors the opening scene of 'The Bourne Identity' and the closing shot of 'The Bourne Ultimatum '.
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Daniel Craig visited his wife Rachel Weisz during their shoot in Manila. Producer Frank Marshall was glad to see them together, saying: "It was pretty cool to have James Bond on the 'Bourne' set with Aaron Cross. We had a great time. It was really fun."
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Taylor Kitsch, Shia LaBeouf, Adam Brody, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Evans, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Hartnett, Tobey Maguire, Alex Pettyfer, Dominic Cooper, Michael Fassbender, Kellan Lutz, Benjamin Walker, Erryn Arkin, Paul Dano, Joel Edgerton, Oscar Isaac, Logan Marshall-Green, and Michael Pitt were considered for the role of Aaron Cross. Isaac was eventually cast in the different role as Outcome #3.
The Bourne Legacy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts