These past few days, it has been rumored that Harrison Ford would reprise his role as Jack Ryan from the popular film adaptations off Tom Clancy’s best selling novels, ‘Patriot Games,’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger.’ It turns out those rumors are false, but there is going to be a new Jack Ryan. According to moviehole.net, they are reporting that Ryan Gosling will fill the shoes as the young Jack Ryan. (Like Ben Affleck had done previously in ‘ The Sum of All Fears.’)
Moviehole.net gives us this:
Philip Noyce himself tells us that neither he or Harrison Ford are returning to the Jack Ryan series – but a new Jack Ryan movie is in the works… and it’ll star Ryan Gosling! (At least that’s what the filmmaker’s heard). Noyce WAS attached to direct “By Any Mean’s Necessary”, briefly last year, but he’s no longer involved.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think a rebooting of this series is a little unnecessary. I don’t know anybody who thought there needed to be a new ‘Jack Ryan’ movie. In fact, majority of the people I know who had seen ‘ The Sum of all Fears’ had no idea that Ben Affleck was actually playing a younger version of the famous character.
I never understood in the first place why they had decided to make the character younger anyways. Also, the next film is not even going to be based off a book from Tom Clancy, so really, what’s the point?
I enjoy Ryan Gosling as an actor immensely; however, I just can’t get excited to see him take over a role from a dead franchise.
What are your guys’ thoughts?
