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Action Movie, Action Pitch

  • It’s Bourne.  It’s Bond.  Or it’s guys a lot like those guys.  And both guys are getting older.
  • Called in, Bourne told Bond may have gone dirty when Ruskies were in Afghanistan.  Is that why war straggles on now?
  • As he tracks Bond, Bourne traces muddied US/Afghan history and ramifications of being an aging super-spy.  He’s hunting who he supposed to have been.
  • We open on Bourne, back in an office, mothballed and whispered about (Clooney in Syriana?) but not seeing action.
  • No longer able to fight his way out of everything, maybe Bourne recruits a heavy (Garcia in Untouchables?) or chooses to Colombo it a bit when a stealth tactic serves.
  • The JB’s is the stupid working title.  But Every once and a while some one says of these guys “He used to be a JB” or some such phrase.