The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Timing: 1:55 (115 min)

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Release date

2007-08-03

Country

France, Germany, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Production

Universal Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Ludlum Entertainment, Peninsula Films, Motion Picture BETA Produktionsgesellschaft, Bourne Again, KanZaman Services

Genre

Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Budget

$70 000 000

Revenue

$442 824 138

Website

https://www.uphe.com/movies/the-bourne-ultimatum

Director

Paul Greengrass

Actors

Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramírez, Albert Finney, Joan Allen, Tom Gallop, Corey Johnson
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Scenario

Producer

Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul Sandberg, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Doug Liman, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Donna Langley, Henry Morrison

Operator

Oliver Wood

Composer

John Powell

Artist

Joanna Foley, Ashley Winter, Rachid Quiat

Audition

Avy Kaufman, John Hubbard, Dan Hubbard

Editing

Christopher Rouse, Henning Molfenter, Denis Pedregosa
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• The film is based on Robert Ludlum's novel 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (1990).
• The beginning of the film, specifically the scenes where Bourne is in Moscow, were actually filmed in Berlin.
• The film crew consisted of 250 people, so separate planes had to be chartered for travel.
• To film the chase scenes on the streets of Tangier, cameras were suspended on a cable stretched over the rooftops.
• The scene where Bourne asks Nicky about his past was filmed on a highway southwest of Madrid.
• The film crew failed to close Waterloo Station, even for a short time, so pedestrians can be seen looking at and pointing to the filming camera in the shot.
• Among the files Bourne steals from the CIA office is a file on a terminated agent, which features a photo of actor Richard Chamberlain, who played Bourne in the 1988 television production.
• The short chase and crashes in midtown New York took six weeks to film.
• Bill Clinton's autobiography, 'My Life,' can be seen on a bookshelf in Vos's office.
• During the scene in the New York CIA office, an image of Donald Rumsfeld can be seen on one of the computers.
• The rifle used by Paz (Edgar Ramirez) in London is a SIG SG 552 Commando.
• During the fight between Bourne and special agent Desh Bukadi in the shower in one of the houses in Tangier (Morocco), a small sink is initially shown being torn off and falling, exposing a drainpipe. After the fight, Bourne searches the body, and the sink is shown in close-up, reattached to the wall.
• In the final dialogue with Dr. Albert Hirsch, the weapon in Bourne's hand changes from a Glock pistol to a Sig Sauer pistol after the flashback.
• In the chase scene in Tangier, the characters played by Julia Stiles and Joey Ansah's assassin navigate through a crowd. No extras were used in this scene; the street was genuinely crowded, and it was impossible to organize the disparate crowd, so the actors performed among ordinary passersby.
• Filming in Tangier took place during the holy month of Ramadan. This is a month of mandatory fasting for Muslims, so during the day, Muslims abstain from food and drink. Some members of the film crew were Muslim, and it was not easy for them to film while being unable to have a snack or take a sip of water. Because of this, the other members of the film crew also snacked and refreshed themselves with water, so as not to be seen if possible.
• The plot dictates that the film begins immediately after the events depicted in "The Bourne Supremacy" (Paul Greengrass, 2004), but filming did not begin until January three years later. It was too cold in Moscow, so the corresponding scenes were filmed in Berlin. Snow was simulated using paper and foam, and it took over 5 hours to cover all the sets. An added bonus was that the paper and foam did not have a tendency to melt like real snow.
• While filming scenes in London, Matt Damon also appeared in a scene for Steven Soderbergh’s film "Ocean’s Thirteen" (2007). In it, Damon’s character walks down the street and discusses the security system of the casino the heroes are planning to rob.
• It took 6 weeks to film the car chase on Manhattan. All the vehicles involved in the scene were driven at a speed of 56 km/h, as prescribed by police department orders.