The Bourne Legacy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jamie]

The film was edited by John Gilroy, Tony Gilroy's brother who, with their other brother, Dan, co-wrote the screenplay to this film and Tony co-produced and directed this film. This is the third film that he has edited for Tony Gilroy with the others being Michael Clayton (2007), Duplicity (2004), and this one. He would also edit, Nightcrawler (2014), which was written and directed by Dan Gilroy and produced by Tony Gilroy.

[tammy]

At the climax of this movie, Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) lies to the U.S. Senate that Operation Blackbriar was activated solely to track down and hunt Jason Bourne. This would be inconsistent with Abbott's statement to the Senate Oversight Committee in The Bourne Identity (2002) that the purpose of Blackbriar was to act as a joint communications program for the Department of Defense. If one looks closely in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), when Bourne goes to steal the classified files from Vosen's office, one of the files reads that Blackbriar was changed from a communications program to a C.I.A./N.S.A. covert operation to track down Jason Bourne, making the cover-up for Blackbriar's true purpose plausible.

[sophie]

Jonathan Eusebio is the Fight Coordinator and the Fighting Style is FMA Kali Eskrima and Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do.

[javier]

The only Bourne film in which Marie Kreutz is neither featured nor referenced in any way. Nicky Parsons isn't mentioned either nor she appears in the movie.

[lynn]

This movie, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum are all set in 2004.

[addison]

This is the second time Oscar Isaac has played a character who has something to do with the C.I.A. and gets killed within the first thirty minutes, and his death is caused by an explosion. The first time being Body of Lies (2008).

[marc]

This was Jeremy Renner's second box-office hit film of 2012 which also included The Avengers (2012), released in the same summer.

[javier]

When Aaron and Marta are flying overseas, stock footage of the Oceanic plane from Executive Decision (1996) was used.

[addison]

The fake names that Aaron Cross creates for him and Dr. Shearing are Karl Brundage and June Monroe, respectively.

[veronica]

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne has a photographic cameo twice in the film in order to help establish this film as part of the franchise. First, in the beginning of the film, when the agency is talking about what they're going to do as Bourne is still at large and a file of Bourne is seen with Damon's picture with it. The last time is just before Cross and Shearing are in an airport and Cross is watching the news and Bourne's picture comes up when the News Anchor mentions his name.

[tammy]

Some members of the cast have appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:-Jeremy Renner played Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016)).-Scott Glenn played Stick (Daredevil (2015)).-Edward Norton played Bruce Banner/Hulk (The Incredible Hulk (2008)).-Corey Stoll played Darren Cross/Yellowjacket (Ant-Man (2015)).

[toni]

Originally a fourth installment for Jason Bourne was planned. However, Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass didn't like the script, Paul Greengrass didn't want to return as director, and Damon would've returned if only Paul would return as director. After that, Tony Gilroy would re-work the script into a Bourne spin-off, now released as "The Bourne Legacy".

[tammy]

Composer John Powell composed the music for the first three Bourne films as the regular composer for both Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass. James Newton Howard, Tony Gilroy's regular composer was hired to write the music for this film. Howard's music is almost stylistically and loosely based on Powell's work on the original Bourne films with his own musical voice.