A full season of Treadstone, a drama centering on the CIA black ops program of the Jason Bourne movies, will be coming to USA Network.
As reported by Variety, the show was ordered to pilot back in April, but will now bypass that stage and go straight to series. Production is slated to begin in 2019.
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Treadstone will focus on the exploits of Operation Treadstone, the program responsible for turning Jason Bourne into a bone-cracking super spy. The first season is reported to follow various other sleeper agents as they’re awakened to resume their missions.
“As the #1 cable entertainment network for the past 12 years, USA Network is delivering a dynamic lineup of big, bold programming — and what could be bigger and bolder than the Treadstone mythology?” Said Chris McCumber, president of entertainment networks for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
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Jason Bourne first appeared in an trilogy of novels by author Robert Ludlum in the 1980s, with a follow-up series, written by Eric Van Lustbader, beginning in 2004. The most recent title, The Bourne Nemesis, was released earlier this year.
The novels have twice been adapted to film, the first time as a 1988 television film starring Richard Chamberlain. Matt Damon took on the role of Jason Bourne starting in 2002’s The Bourne Identity, and its sequels The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and 2016’s Jason Bourne.
Treadstone will not be the franchise’s first foray into a Bourne-less adaptation. Jeremy Renner stepped into the universe as Aaron Cross in 2012’s The Bourne Legacy.
