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Paramount in talks to reboot Jack Ryan franchise

Started by slyoyster · 9 months ago

Paramount Studios is trying to get the Jack Ryan franchise back up off the ground after the ill-received Sum of All Fears (not great but did anyone honestly see the nuclear explosion coming?).  The last Jack Ryan movie starred Ben Affleck and the apex of his nadir, but the series will a ... Continue reading »

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  • Something I read regarding this movie made me wonder if it isn't an adaptation of Without Remorse, which is not about Jack Ryan at all (though he does have a small cameo), but John Clark, Clancy's gruffer, rougher, paramilitary snake eater type. I've read all the Clancy books, and for my money WR sits at the top of the pile right beside The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

    I guess it could be an original Ryan tale; Clancy hasn't written a novel since '03's Teeth of the Tiger, and he has to have been up to something.

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