Random Movie Trivia - The Bourne Identity

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

The Bourne Identity

• The author of the novel, Robert Ludlum, the movie is based on passed away during post-production.
• Despite prominent billing, Clive Owen only gets about three minutes of screentime, broken up throughout the film. He doesn't talk until an hour and 25 minutes into the film and even then its in his last scene.
• Brian Cox (Ward Abbott) appears in two other movies as the employer of an assassin who has amnesia after a traumatic event, The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and X-Men 2 (2003).
• In an earlier draft of the screenplay, Marie was American, her surname was Purcell and she had green hair. Final drafts had her name changed to Kreutz, her nationality changed to German and she was given multicolored hair.
• Brad Pitt turned down the lead role to do Spy Game.  Matthew McConaughey was also considered for the part.
• In the original Ludlum Novel, Marie was not a German gypsy. Her name was Marie St. Jacques and was a Canadian Economics Analyst.
• The secret C.I.A cell Treadstone is inspired by the real life secret C.I.A cell 'The Enterprise', which organised the Iran-Contra affair.
• Surprisingly, only 8 characters are killed in this movie.

"I actually think that Matt Damon did a better job than Brad Pitt would have done."