“In the end, if you like our style, great. If you don’t, to each his own. Since the beginning films have spoken to us in many different styles. As for me, I enjoy them all.”
A third-generation filmmaker, Christopher Rouse first learned how to edit while working for his father, the writer, director and producer Russell Rouse. After serving as an apprentice and assistant editor on various film and television productions in the 1980s, he received his first feature-editing credit on Michael Cimino’s Desperate Hours (1990). He spent the next eleven years primarily editing for television, including the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998) and Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), before working as additional editor on Doug Liman’s The Bourne Identity (2002).
Paul Greengrass directed the next two installments of the Matt Damon-starring franchise, launching a collaboration with Rouse that includes not only The Bourne Supremacy (2003, with Richard Pearson) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), but also United 93 (2006, with Pearson and Clare Douglas) and Green Zone (2010). The Bourne Ultimatum won Rouse the Academy Award, the ACE Eddie Award and the BAFTA for best editing, while he, Pearson and Douglas were also Oscar-nominated for their work on United 93. Rouse’s other editing credits include F. Gary Gray’s The Italian Job (2003, with Richard Francis-Bruce), John Woo’s Paycheck (2003) and Frank Marshall’s Eight Below (2006).
