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?
