The spectacular landscape was, though, really used for Hammer Films' One Million Years BC back in 1966 and for the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans.Īs ever, Parsons and now Bourne are being monitored by the CIA, under Director Dewey ( Tommy Lee Jones) along with his ambitious assistant Heather Lee ( Alicia Vikander). Although they’re off the west coast of Morocco, they’re officially a part of Spain and a popular holiday destination.Īs it turned out, Tenerife proved to be spectacularly adaptable, also supplying the ‘Beirut’ streets for the flashbacks to Bourne’s father’s death as well as both ‘Reykjavik’ and ‘Athens’ airports.Īs an aside, if you visit Tenerife and you're a film fan, you'll constantly be told by tour guides that the island's volcanic Mount Teide was used for filming everything from Planet of the Apes to Star Wars and The Ten Commandments.

Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands, a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It's several blocks to the southeast, at the junction of Avenida Tres de Mayo and Avenida la Salle where Bourne steals a motorbike.

Jason Bourne location: Bourne steals a bike during the rioting in 'Athens': Avenida Tres de Mayo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands | Photograph: Google Maps The film does an astonishingly convincing job of adding the Greek Parliament Building to the background and dressing the city centre with Greek signage.īourne and Parsons push through the crowds and cross in front of Plaza de la Candelaria, splitting up at the corner of General Gutierrez and Plaza del Cabildo when Bourne realises they're being tailed. The amount of red tape required to stage such a major set-piece in Athens resulted in a decision to film the entire sequence in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, with the city’s Plaza de Espana standing in for Athens’ ‘Syntagma Square’. There’s more location trickery when Parsons meets Bourne in ‘Athens’ and the first big action sequence sees the pair chased on a stolen bike through a horde of Molotov cocktail-hurling demonstrators. Since the filming of Bourne, the buildings have been demolished to make way for a housing development – although the landmark towering chimney has been retained. The explosion of digital photography in the 2000s saw the print side of the industry declining and by 2016, the plant had closed. The first Kodak factory outside the USA, it was opened in 1891, on a huge triangular site alongside the rail line on Harrow View at Headstone Gardens, northwest of Harrow & Wealdstone Station. When he’s contacted by Nicky Parsons ( Julia Stiles), who’s hacked into the CIA network and discovered insights into his past and his father, Bourne/David Webb is drawn back into the fray.īoth the hackers’ ‘Reykjavik’ hideout, where Nicky accesses the CIA files, and the venue for the underground fight where she finds Bourne, were filmed in what was the old Kodak photographic company plant in Harrow, northwest London. The tormented Jason Bourne ( Matt Damon), now remembering (almost) everything, lives off-grid in 'Greece', eking out a living while exorcising his mental conflicts with bouts of bareknuckle fighting. A further chapter in the Bourne saga, with the breathtaking action sequences benefitting hugely from director Paul Greengrass’s background in documentaries.

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