Jack Ryan is the centerpeice of Tom Clancy’s novels that have had a pretty positive run at the big screen with its adaptations. Now we get news that the latest of the Jack Ryan films is expecting to star Chris Pine in the iconic role.
Variety reports that Pine is in serious negotiations to step into the role of CIA analyst Jack Ryan, in a reboot of the franchise based on Tom Clancy’s series of political-thriller novels.
While talks have only recently begun, Paramount expects Pine to officially join the project as it comes to fruition. “The studio and producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mace Neufeld are working with a script draft by Hossein Amini, based on an original concept.”
I have never been that big a fan of the Tom Clancy novels, but I like the idea of other actors taking on the Jack Ryan character first brought to the screen by Alec Baldwin, but then played twice by Harrison Ford.
The movie will be the first to involve the character that is not based on an existing Clancy novel. There were rumours that this franchise could see a reboot, but I don’t think it needs to. They play them out of chronological order anyways so why not just keep hopping around the character’s history with different actors taking on the role?
The only movie I’ve seen of Pine’s was Bottleshock and I thought he did a good job. I’m for this.
I am surprised, with the popularity of the video games, that Clancy’s Rainbow Six has never been made into a film.
I really like The Hunt for Red October and both of Ford’s films were good but not great. The Sum of All Fears was shallow and pedantic. I wouldn’t mind seeing Pine as Jack Ryan but if he doesn’t play the role then no big deal to me.
Big fan of the books. I really wish they would have continued with Ford completing the series… through his appt as VP and then becoming president. Debt of Honor was a great read… great ending as well… though they couldn’t do that in a film after 9/11.
I’d give this a chance though. Pine did a great job as Kirk (even for us six remaining fans of the original).
I thought the Sum of All Fears was pretty good, just had the misfortune of being released at a bad time…
Exactly! Studios are really dumb sometimes, if a movie bombs it’s everyone else’s fault except the studio itself. Most of the time, GOOD movies bomb because studios decide to release it on stupid time frames like before spring or in the other dead season september-november. There’s also the shitty marketing to take in consideration and depending on the competition out there at the same time. Oh well i guess every single “series” we saw about 10 years ago will be rebooted…
I don’t think the series needs a reboot either as the movies aren’t really in order. I loved Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan and even though I like Ben Affleck I had no interested in to see Sum of All Fears. I think Chris Pine is a wonderful choice to play the character next, he’s not too young and he has a lot of energy not to mention charisma and there is the whole he’s totally hot thing (yep, had to toss that in). I tried to read Clear and Present Danger back in the day, but Clancey’s novels simply aren’t my interest of reading.
This would be the second reboot for Jack Ryan. “Sum of all Fears” was an attempt to reboot the series.
does hollywood really need to reboot everything? just continue the jack ryan franchise, nothing wrong with it, why fix it if its not broken?. Rebooting transformers would make more sense.
Yeah, I thought ‘Sum of all Fears’ was a re-boot with Affleck taking on the role. Story wise it was supposed to still be present day but reset Ryan to him just starting in the agency. If I rememeber correctly Ben even went as far as to meet Harrison Ford and get his approval on taking the role.
I really liked Harrison Ford as Ryan, and Clear and Present Danger was awesome. Never read any of the books, I will admit. Not my kind of reading, personally. I am curious of how this will turn out, but find it odd how Jack Ryan seams to be aging backwards if you leave out the Baldwin. Maybe Ryan is actually an unrevealed fantasy character!
Don’t forget Ben Affleck in “Sun of All Fears” (I didn’t even bother seeing that one).