Julia Stiles' Nicky originally had a different ending in the Bourne franchise, and the decision to change her fate saved the spy thriller series.
While Julia Stiles’ Nicky ended up becoming pivotal to the Bourne franchise, her original fate in The Bourne Identity would have ruined the series. In an attempt to make a more grounded, grittier type of spy movie than the escapist James Bond movies, the Bourne franchise often ran the risk of getting too dark. The Bourne movies owed as much creative inspiration to the downbeat, pessimistic, paranoid political thrillers of the 1970s as they did to the blockbuster fun of Bond’s adventures.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT This was evident in Bourne’s relationship with Nicky throughout the franchise. Where the vast majority of James Bond movies see 007 romance numerous love interests, the closest thing that the amnesia-stricken Jason Bourne has to a romantic partner throughout the Bourne movies is Stiles’ Nicky.
Killing Nicky In The Bourne Identity Would Have Failed According to Julia Stiles , her character was originally supposed to die at the end of The Bourne Identity, and Bourne himself was the one who killed her. While Bourne’s martial arts skills make him a lethally efficient killer throughout the franchise, he never threatens to kill Nicky, even when he is unsure whether she is setting him up for capture by the CIA.
While Nicky made it to 2016’s Jason Bourne and received a far more fitting end, Julia Stiles believed the character’s death would happen in The Bourne Identity until she saw the movie herself. Since her relationship with Jason was barely established in The Bourne Identity, the emotional stakes of this missing death scene were non-existent.
Why Jason Bourne’s Nicky Death Worked Nicky’s death arrived almost a decade after The Bourne Ultimatum left her and Jason in comparative safety, which made the twist a devastating one. While The Bourne Identity’s original Nicky death would have proved that Bourne was capable of stone-cold killing, The Bourne Ultimatum ended up showcasing this much more effectively when the spy killed a hit man in self-defense in front of Nicky.
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