"But the movie was released in 2002-which was a year after he passed away-and it really elevated his business and his fame to a new level. Ludlum died in 2001 so he never got to see the finished product, but he "was around for a lot of the filming," Jeffrey Weiner, an executive producer on the later Bourne films and the executor of the author's estate, told Vanity Fair in 2012. But eventually, I got a lucky break and discovered the rights were going to expire, asked Robert Ludlum's permission to do this film and he gave it to me."Īccording to a 2008 New York profile, Liman had just earned his pilot's license and flew himself to Montana to meet with Ludlum at his home. "I said, 'There's this book that I really like' and they said, 'Anything but that book.' Reason been that Warner Bros. "When Swingers became a huge hit, Hollywood opened their doors and told me I could do anything I wanted," the director told BBC News in 2002.
(Though he made the frenetically hip small-time-crime indie comedy Go first.) Doug Liman was the driving force behind the big-screen update of The Bourne Identity, having reread the Ludlum classic while shooting the pop culture lodestar Swingers and deciding he wanted to make that next.
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