Not a lot of people know that the character Jason Bourne made famous in 2002 by Matt Damon was actually remade. The original ‘Bourne Identity’ was a two part made for T.V. movie back in 1988 and it starred actor Richard Chamberlain as Bourne. Both films are adapted from series of novels by a man named Robert Ludlum. Ludlum released ‘The Bourne Identity’ novel in 1980. The book series has a total of 8 books (the 8th releasing in sometime in 2010). Ludlam wrote the first three in the series (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum) and author Eric Van Lustbader took over writing the stories for the last 5 novels (The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Betrayal, The Bourne Sanction, The Bourne Deception, and The Bourne Objective). Lets get to the reviews so we can suit up the two super spies for a battle to the death!

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