

We can't say that Jeremy Renner played the ex-agent because he didn't. He is younger (or so he appears), more violent and expeditious and, like many heroes of the time, vulnerable: unlike Richard Chamberlain's character, he gets his hands dirty if necessary to get out of any situation he finds himself in. Indeed, Matt Damon is the Jason Bourne we have in mind, the one who starred in four of the five films that between 20 hit theaters with the new approach to the character.



It is a representation Old-fashioned: suit and tie, always elegant, without a single stain and methods much more refined than those of his natural heir, who we were going to meet in 2002. Richard Chamberlain got into the skin of Jason Bourne in a little-remembered adaptation from 1988, just eight years after the publication of the first novel. That is the starting point of a hero (or almost) that right now has been played by two actors. Upon awakening, he realizes that he absolutely does not remember, he does not know who he is, so he will start a race to discover him and, also, to identify the murderers who are chasing him. Jason Bourne is a former CIA agent who suffers an incident and, injured, He is confined to a hospital bed. These are all the novels that exist inspired by the original character of Robert Ludlum. The original trilogy was turned into movies that reached theaters in 2002, 20, while of the following some and partially used elements of others. Within his universe there are two clearly differentiated periods: the original trilogy written in the 80s that concludes with The Bourne Ultimatum and the later one born from the success of the films and whose author changed, passing into the hands of Eric Van Lustbader. The saga of Jason Bourne is a literary product, the work of Robert Ludlum, and which It hit bookstores in 1980.
