Wednesday, October 14

• Captain Kirk to Play Jack Ryan and Counterfeit Money

  

  Though we don't see him much these days, for a few years Tom Clancey's Jack Ryan had a great run onscreen. Alec Baldwin was the first actor to play the role in The Hunt for Red October. Then Harrison Ford had a good run as Ryan in Patriot Games and A Clear and present Danger. It all came to an end, though, when Ben Affleck's The Sum of All Fears finished off the franchise.

  But since Clancey's books and video games are still selling strong, Variety reports that Paramount Pictures wants to reboot the franchise and is negotiating with Star Trek's Chris Pine to play the Ryan role. Hossein Amini wrote the script for the reboot based on an original concept. No director has been named since Sam Raimi left the project.

  Before Pine starts work on a Ryan movie or Star Trek 2, he'll be busy with another movie he is negotiating with Paramount to star in, The Art of Making Money. Money will follow Pine as a master counterfeiter in Chicago and is set to start production early next year.

  
  

  Posted 10/14/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Chris Pine | D.J. Caruso | Hossein Amini | A Clear and Present Danger | Star Trek 2 | The Hunt for Red October | Patriot Games | The Sum of All Fears

Monday, December 22

• New Jack Ryan Loses a Director, Gains a Screenwriter

  With Sam Raimi being too busy with the upcoming Drag Me to Hell and Spider-Man 4 to continue working on the new Jack Ryan movie, Paramount is still moving forward with the Tom Clancy franchise. Screenwriter Hossein Amini, known for period pieces Wings of the Dove and 2009's Shanghai is set to write an original story, not an adaptation of a Clancy novel.

  No casting decision on who will play Ryan has been announced. With Ben Affleck being the last to play Ryan, who do you think should be next?

  
  

  Posted 12/22/2008 by Ryan

  Related: Sam Raimi | Tom Clancy | Hossein Amini | Untitled Jack Ryan Movie