[29], The series was released on DVD for Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on March 24, 2020. She shows great skill evading North Korean killers during a Parisian car chase that pays homage to Bourne, even if she's not a Treadstone agent. Any fan of "The Bourne Identity" film franchise knows that Treadstone is the CIA black-ops program that produced Matt Damon's amnesiac super-assassin, Jason Bourne. A human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster. USA Network's Treadstone continues the Jason Bourne franchise as an action-packed TV series. Edwards meets an asset. Bentley's highly trained Treadstone descendants, stationed all over the world, are waking from psychological slumber, getting involved in punishing fights and taking on dangerous assignments with skills they didn't know they had. Edwards runs into complications. A London cab driver (Tracy Ifeachor) – whose journalistic career was short-circuited after she reported on a missing Soviet-era nuclear missile – is drawn into action when the missile's whereabouts become newly relevant. RELATED: Bourne Again: 10 Characters We Need To See Back In The Next Bourne Movie Yet the entire Bourne saga began with Operation: Treadstone, the top-secret CIA program that turned Jason Bourne into a deadly assassin. In May 2020, the series was canceled after one season. Remembering when can be comforting, even if the memory entails the thrilling sensory recall of the first time we watched Jason Bourne beat a knife-wielding attacker into submission using nothing but his fists, knees, feet, and a ballpoint pen. Doug fakes the death of a target in Colombia to buy himself some time to figure out how to tackle his next move while Petra seeks the help of an aged John Randolph Bentley to take down Treadstone. Treadstone is a major acquisition for USA Network, which is hoping that the pedigree of the Jason Bourne franchise is enough to lure viewers to the network for more international spy games, even without Matt Damon himself as Jason Bourne starring in the series. Samantha McKenna reveals to Doug that she was a medical officer for Treadstone.

[9], On April 12, 2018, it was announced that USA Network had given the production a pilot order. The director of the operations, Dan Levine, is killed by Nira Patel when too many assets go rogue, leading Treadstone to divert its focus on Russia due to Leniov's failure to fulfill his deal.

That might not have flown in 2002, when “The Sopranos” was in its heyday and premium cable was recalibrating the audience’s definition of great or even watchable TV. As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge. Viewers won't see Bourne (or Damon), but there are plenty of fingerprints connecting the 10-episode action thriller (Tuesdays, 10 EDT/PDT) to the five feature films – four starring Damon and one featuring Jeremy Renner as another turbocharged operative – and to the novels of Robert Ludlum, who created the iconic character. Treadstone opens up the Bourne universe and will follow the exploits several new agents who were trained by the Operation: Treadstone program as well as their enemies all over the world.

Readers seeking to support this type of content can visit our Patreon Page and become one of FilmBook’s patrons. Justin Levy will executive produce alongside Bradley Thomas for Imperative Entertainment. Women, particularly women of color, play prominently in moving the “Treadstone” narrative forward, a welcome evolution from the movie franchise’s default emphasis on white guys and girlfriends naturally versed in cutting their own hair into a flawless choppy bob, a look we’ll call the Lady Fugitive. THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND: Season 1, Episode 4: The Wrong End of a Telescope Trailer & Clip; Ep.

Damon's Jason Bourne was a one-man killing machine; fisticuffs here are equal opportunity as a diverse group shows off martial arts skills. One of his captors, Petra Andropov, gives chase. "The fact that he did create this global world within 'Heroes' was a super interesting and compelling reason for us to work together on 'Treadstone,' " Smith says. "Treadstone" picks up the "Bourne" fighting mantle in tightly edited, highly choreographed one-on-one battles. Can he, with no field experience, stay alive long enough to get to the bottom of it? Like USA’s other movie-franchise based TV series “The Purge, ” the promise of “Treadstone” is to present a contained action movie plot per week. Matheson kills Meisner who gloats that everything transpiring, even his own death, is part of the KGB's plan. Neither is the notion that if one, or two, or 10 went off the reservation, government operatives would be on top of the situation enough to keep tabs on them, if not stop them entirely.

4: The Key Plot Synopsis [AMC], THE CROWN: Season 4: Teaser Trailer 2: The Prince of Wales Falls in & out of Love with Lady Diana Spencer [Netflix], PENNYWORTH: Season 2 Trailer, Premiere Date, & New Characters: Jack Bannon Returns as Alfred Pennyworth [Epix], THIS IS US: Season 5 TV Show Trailer & Premiere Date: The Pearsons gather to Celebrate their 40th Birthday [NBC], Watch: DUNE (1984): 3 Hour Version – Theater & Extended Cut + Deleted Scenes, EMBATTLED (2020) Movie Trailer: Egomaniacal MMA Champion Stephen Dorff fights His Estranged Son in the Octagon, Contest: RICK AND MORTY: Season 4 Blu-ray – Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)’s Animated Scifi TV Series, LOVE AND MONSTERS (2020): Paramount’s Adventure Comedy Makes a Hit Debut on Streaming, OVER THE MOON (2020): Animator Glen Keane Discusses Directing His First Feature Film, HELLBOY (2019): Paranormal Action Flick to Premiere In China, Video Movie Review: MULAN (2020): Another Disappointing Disney Remake, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020) Movie Trailer 2: Tom Hanks Attempts to Take Helena Zengel to Her Relatives in Paul Greengrass’ Film, RIDERS OF JUSTICE (2020) International Movie Trailer: Soldier Mads Mikkelsen Returns Home after His Wife is Murdered, TV Casting: TREADSTONE; WATCHMEN; Anna Paquin in THE AFFAIR, & More, CHUCKY (2021) TV Show Teaser: Brad Dourif Voices the Killer Doll Coming to a Suburban Town [USA, Syfy], MR. The story of Operation Treadstone was previously explored in the five Bourne movies – 2002’s The Bourne Identity, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, 2007’s The Bourne …

At the CIA, mid-level director Becker pursues leads in Langley about the program. Comment. Any fan of "The Bourne Identity" film franchise knows that Treadstone is the CIA black-ops program that produced Matt Damon's amnesiac super-assassin, Jason Bourne…

Soyun is tasked with finding evidence against her husband's commanding officer. [5], Treadstone explores the origin story and present-day actions of a fictional CIA black-ops program known as Operation Treadstone — a covert program that uses a behavior-modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly-superhuman assassins. [8] The story then zooms to the present day, following a group of assets being "activated" by force or awakened after a moment of high tension. [27] Follow her on Twitter: @McTelevision. FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.