{"id":13586,"date":"2016-02-08T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2021-10-17T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:13:59","slug":"jason-bourne-chase-ends-with-riviera-crash-trailer-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/jason-bourne-chase-ends-with-riviera-crash-trailer-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"“Jason Bourne” Chase Ends With Spectacular Riviera Crash, Official Trailer Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s hard to say which was more exciting, Jason Bourne’s car piggy-backing a SWAT van and crashing into the Riviera casino, or the Super Bowl trailer featuring Las Vegas footage and the name of the latest installment of the Bourne franchise (wait for it), “Jason Bourne.”<\/p>\n

At the moment, we’re still reeling from the Riviera stunt, so we’ll just go with that. Major spoilers ahead, by the way!<\/p>\n

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Bourne’s Charger and a SWAT van get busy. Hey, it’s Vegas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After weeks of “Jason Bourne” sightings on the Las Vegas Strip, the big day of the Riviera stunt finally arrived on Feb. 5, 2016.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of clues Bourne was coming to The Riv. First, the Riv’s facade was lit up<\/a>. Also, a special awning appeared overnight leading up to the stunt.<\/p>\n

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The Riviera name won’t be seen in the film. The Riv’s fictional name will be the Empire Casino.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As this blog has documented, perhaps a tad too obsessively, the Riviera was the climax of a high-speed car chase that began at Aria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The awning after dark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the chase, Bourne’s car takes a ramp at Bally’s and ends up on the roof of a SWAT van with the movie’s villain, played by Vincent Cassel (“Oceans 12”), inside.<\/p>\n

Here’s the jump at Bally’s.<\/p>\n

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