What timeframe overlaps between Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum?
In preparation for watching Jason Bourne, I'm binge re-watching all the Bourne films since it's been many years since I've seen the earlier ones in particular.
Something just struck me in doing so. On the off chance it might be a spoiler to someone, I'm hiding it here:
Bourne Supremacy ends with the scene of Bourne observing Landy and telling her she "looks tired". Then this exact scene plays out roughly 75% through Bourne Ultimatum.
This seems to make it quite clear that the first 3/4 of Ultimatum, actually overlap with the events of Supremacy. But I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how that's possible since in Ultimatum we see Bourne go through all kinds of stuff that we didn't see him go through in Supremacy.
So what gives with the overlap?
Best Answer
As I understand it, there isn't much overlap at all. That scene is effectively a "flash forward", a teaser to the events of the sequel, shown well out of chronological order. If you remove that final scene, then the movies take place in sequence, one almost immediately after the other.
At the end of Bourne Supremacy, Jason escapes from the assassin the CIA sent after him (Kirill) and goes to find the daughter of one of his victims, who lives in Moscow. When Bourne Ultimatum starts, Bourne is still in Moscow, still wounded and running from the police.
There is then a roughly 6-week jump to the point where Landy divulges the contents of the tape, and the journalist writes his story about Treadstone. By this point, Bourne has mostly healed, and has traveled to Paris to tell Marie's brother about her death. He then goes to London to meet the journalist. As far as we know, he never returns to the United States until after he hooks up with Nicki in Madrid.
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It is the second installment in the Jason Bourne film series. It is preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) and followed by The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and Jason Bourne (2016). The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia.Is the last scene of Bourne Supremacy in Bourne Ultimatum?
Supremacy's final scene actually takes place quite a ways in to the story of Ultimatum, which picks up after Bourne staggers away, bloodied and bruised, from the crunching car chase that left his hunter, and Marie's murderer, Kirill, dying in the wreckage.Do Bourne movies overlap?
There's also definite overlap in the timeline as Supremacy ends sometime after the car chase and Ultimatum opens immediately afterwards, with Bourne treating his bullet wound. So the scene in Supremacy could have been the same, just put in to connect the two together.What order do the Jason Bourne films go in?
Contents- 1.1 The Bourne Identity (2002)
- 1.2 The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
- 1.3 The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- 1.4 The Bourne Legacy (2012)
- 1.5 Jason Bourne (2016)
- 1.6 Future.
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