the bourne legacy

THE BOURNE FRANCHISE: Revisiting A Durable Spy Thriller Saga From The Big To The Small Screen

I’ve never really covered the Bourne movies on The Action Elite. However, I figured during my recent downtime, I would binge them over a weekend and do a little retrospective including the original Bourne Identity from 1988 and the Prime series Treadstone. I go into spoilers here so if you haven’t seen any of these movies then best not to continue. The Bourne Identity (1988) An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can’t remember a thing. He does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are […]

STUNTS, FANDOM & ACTION: A Word With Jonathan Eusebio And Can Aydin

Lee B. Golden III

The first weekend of April this year was an excellent time for me. I got to meet up with a fellow movie friend to see Furious Seven on opening night, and what’s more, I got to meet up with two of the most awesome people anyone could hang out with, and it’s definitely another milestone I’ve set for myself as a film enthusiast. Honestly, you watch movies and you see the people in them, and you never suspect you will ever meet these guys in real life. But when it does, part of you feels most of its surrealness while the other parts of you settle with the fact that you’re in a room with said people and you need to compose yourself lest you hyperventilate or cause your head explode. Thankfully though, neither of those happened on the evening of Sunday, April 5 when I went to The Centurion […]

Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass Reportedly In Talks For More 'BOURNE'

Lee B. Golden III

Twitch broke the news on Monday that actor Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass are joined in talks to return to for another installment in the Bourne franchise. The news comes almost a year after Damon spoke to Movieline about the chances of his return since actor Jeremy Renner‘s appearance in The Bourne Legacy last year. “There has not been any movement,” he said. “I’ve always been open to it as long as Paul Greengrass directs, I don’t think he’s going to do it.” Damon went on to explain the difficulties and challenges that could come with Greengrass at the helm to follow the events after Legacy, saying “from what I understand, it kind of relives [The Bourne Ultimatum] from a different perspective. What that means, because they use our actors and characters, is that whatever they said [in Legacy] is true and so we’d have to acknowledge it in […]