The Bourne Ultimatum - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[brent]

James Bond ran across the rooftops in Tangiers to escape police 20 years earlier in The Living Daylights.

[lena]

Matt Damon and Scott Glenn appeared in Courage Under Fire (1996).

[janice]

After helping out Bourne in Tangiers (and being labelled a rogue by the C.I.A.), Nicky does not speak another line for the rest of her time in the film.

[eli]

After the report from the assassin, when Landy check Bourne's file his birthday is clearly visible. This becomes important as the story progresses, as does information on the Treadstone document she views after the Hirsch document. Both relate to a scene in The Bourne Supremacy (2004).

[lonnie]

Edgar Ramírez, who played an assassin in this film, also played Ilich Ramirez Sanchez Carlos (2010) in the mini-series Carlos (2010). Carlos "The Jackal" was the main antagonist in the Bourne trilogy written by Robert Ludlum, albeit a bit different from the mini-series counterpart.

[dustin]

When the C.I.A. hacks into Simon Ross' Guardian e-mail, finding a round-trip ticket to Turin, the e-mail is presented as being sent from [email protected] - Adrian Spanna worked as a Second Unit Video Assist Operator on the film.

[frances]

During the filming of the London scenes, Matt Damon also shot a scene for the movie Ocean's Thirteen (2007). It is the scene where Damon's character is walking down a street discussing the target casino's security.

[melinda]

The production devoted six weeks to filming the climactic car chase in lower Manhattan. In the sequence all vehicles are being operated at no more than thirty-five miles per hour because the New York Police Department would not allow greater speed, due to concern for public safety.

[caroline]

Mark Ruffalo and Emile Hirsch both turned down the role of Simon Ross.

[cameron]

In the C.I.A. substation, where an operative intercepts Simon Ross' call using Echelon, the numbers given on the screen are various locations in the UK. One number is 020 7946 0621 and various others. These are fake numbers used by television and theatre companies to add more realistic drama to films not unlike the "555" system used in the U.S. Also on the screen is the dialing code for Reading, and the 01632 which is fictional (U.S. "555" equivalent).

[kristen]

When they were shooting in Tangiers, it was in the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, where no Muslim can eat or drink during the daylight hours. Interviews in the bonus material reveal that several of the crew members were Muslims, and found it exhausting to do the movie while being unable to eat or drink. Matt Damon comments on how he would see them look "longingly at a cup of coffee or a sandwich". To accommodate these crew members, the remaining members of the crew tried to discreetly eat and drink.

[sandra]

The film crew was unable to shut down Waterloo station, so pedestrians in the station can be seen looking and pointing at the camera.

[eli]

Operation Blackbriar, the focal point of the film, was introduced in The Bourne Identity (2002). Near the end of that film, Abbott is before a U.S. Congressional review board and explains Treadstone was a failure; then he closes a file and discusses Operation Blackbriar.

[phyllis]

The end title music for The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) uses the same recording of "Extreme Ways" by Moby. This film uses a new performance of the same song, with a distinctly different mix, called "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)".

[eli]

Bourne's arsenal (in order) consists of a Dual Tone SIG Pro SP2022 he used in the bathroom at the beginning of the movie, a Black SIG Pro he took off of the C.I.A. Agents in the Madrid Office, a Beretta 92FS he took off a Tangiers police officer, a Black Glock 17 he procured mysteriously in the parking lot near the C.I.A. building in New York City, which in turn, ended in another mystery as he procured another SIG Pro during his questioning of Dr. Albert Hirsch.

[kenzi]

Neil Daniels (Colin Stinton) was also a C.I.A. employee in Spy Game (2001) as Henry Pollard.

[lynn]

Jason Bourne's final line ("Look at us. Look at what they make you give.") echoes The Professor's (Clive Owen) dying words in The Bourne Identity (2002).

[frances]

As shown to Pam Landy on a computer screen, Jason Bourne enters New York City as Gilberto de Piento from Brazil. The identity's passport is briefly shown in The Bourne Identity (2002) during Jason's exploration of the deposit box in Zürich. But the spelling there is Gilberto do Piento. Furthermore, in The Bourne Identity (2002), this name appears not as one of Bourne's alternate names, but as the name of the Brazilian Federal Police Chief who signed the passport. In that old Brazilian passport, in the 2002 film, Bourne's name appears on another page, and is actually listed as João do Carmo.

[addison]

When Landy sends Bourne a coded message through a false birth date, she directs him to an address on East 71 Street. In the Jason Bourne books, Treadstone 71, the project that trained David Webb to become Jason Bourne was based on 71st Street, New York.