The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) on Netflix
Jason Bourne, in hiding, follows a London journalist's columns about a CIA program and arranges to meet him. The Agency is tracking reporter Simon Ross and his work on Operation Blackbriar.
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Plot summary
Wounded after a confrontation in Moscow, Jason Bourne slips away from the police and is seized by flashbacks of the day he joined Operation Treadstone. Six weeks on, the CIA's deputy director, Pamela Landy, plays Director Ezra Kramer a recorded confession from Ward Abbott, who once ran Treadstone. In Turin, the journalist Simon Ross writes newspaper columns about Bourne, and when he mentions Operation Blackbriar to his editor by phone, the CIA's ECHELON system picks the call up. Bourne has read the columns. After telling Marie's brother, Martin Kreutz, how she died in India, he arranges to meet Ross at Waterloo station in London, where the CIA is already tracking the reporter.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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- Tony Gilroy was persuaded to write an initial draft of the screenplay but did not participate further and as of 2009 had not watched the finished film, and Matt Damon criticized his draft. Tom Stoppard also wrote a draft and later said he did not think a single word of his was in the film.
- The film earned $69,283,690 in its opening weekend, the highest August opening weekend at the time, beating Rush Hour 2, and it held that record for seven years until Guardians of the Galaxy overtook it in 2014.
- "Scotty Doesn't Know", the song Jason Bourne listens to while sniping, is a song that Matt Damon's character sings in EuroTrip.
