THE BOURNE LEGACY – Production Notes - I Watch Mike

packaging, many high-level film and television projects
with the writers, directors and literary properties he
represented. Before his career in Hollywood, Smith
spent more than seven years traveling the globe
documenting the rapidly changing sociopolitical
landscapes in the Middle East, South East Asia, Central
America and South America.
ROBERT LUDLUM (Inspired by the “Bourne”
Series Created by) was the author of 21 novels, each
one a New York Times best seller. There are more than
210 million of his books in print, and they have been
translated into 32 languages. He is the author of “The
Scarlatti Inheritance,” “The Chancellor Manuscript” and
the Jason Bourne series—“The Bourne Identity,” “The
Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum”—
among others.
Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001.
HENRY MORRISON (Executive Producer)
went to work for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency
in March 1957 where he served as a senior agent and
vice president until November 1964. During his tenure,
Morrison worked with and represented such authors
as Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain), Norman Mailer,
P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Anderson, John Farris, Donald
Westlake and Lawrence Block. Morrison negotiated
hundreds of book contracts in the United States and
overseas, and also negotiated with various movie
studios and movie producers for the licensing of film
and television rights to materials created by the above
(and other) authors.
He opened Henry Morrison, Inc. in January 1965,
and has represented the likes of Robert Ludlum, David
Morrell, Eric Van Lustbader, Dean Koontz, Joe Gores
and Samuel R. Delany. Morrison has dealt with all
the major publishers in New York City and has (by
conservative estimate) successfully negotiated more
than 2,000 contracts for various clients. Some of the
films that resulted were the Death Wish movies, with
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Charles Bronson; the Rambo movies, with Sylvester
Stallone; and films starring Robert Redford and George
C. Scott, among many others.
JENNIFER FOX (Executive Producer) most
recently produced Lynne Ramsay’s acclaimed film We
Need to Talk About Kevin, which was in competition at
the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Film at the 2011
BFI London Film Festival, the 2012 Evening Standard
British Film Awards, Best Director at the 2011 British
Independent Film Awards, and British Film of the Year
at the 2012 London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Tilda
Swinton won the Best Actress award at the European
Film Awards and received Screen Actors Guild, Golden
Globe and BAFTA award nominations. Lynne Ramsay
received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director.
Fox received an Academy Award ® nomination for
producing Tony Gilroy’s directorial debut, Michael
Clayton, starring George Clooney, Sydney Pollack,
Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson. The film received
seven Oscar ® nominations, including Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best
Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress (which
was won by Swinton). Fox also collaborated with Gilroy
by producing his film Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts,
Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti. That
same year, Fox produced The Informant!, directed by
Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon.
Fox served as president of Steven Soderbergh and
George Clooney’s production company Section Eight,
from 2001 to 2007. While there, she produced Stephen
Gaghan’s Syriana, for which George Clooney won an
Academy Award ® for Best Supporting Actor. Under
the banner, Fox also executive produced the Clooneydirected
political drama Good Night, and Good Luck.,
which received six Academy Award ® nominations,
including Best Picture; Richard Linklater’s A Scanner
Darkly; Pu-239; Rob Reiner’s Rumor Has It...; The
Jacket, directed by John Maybury; and Criminal,
directed by Gregory Jacobs.