A while back it was announced that Chris Pine would be the new Jack Ryan, the Tom Clancy hero played first by Alec Baldwin (in The Hunt for Red October, the best Ryan film), most-famously by Harrison Ford (Philip Noyce’s Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger) and most-recently by Ben Affleck (in the underrated The Sum of All Fears, directed by Phil Alden Robinson).
The new film is titled Moscow, produced by Lorenzo di Bonuventura and written by Hossein Amini and Adam Cozad, and will go into production “late winter/spring early next year,” according to di Bonuventura [Collider, via Cinematical]
Moscow would be a prequel of sorts, starting not long after Ryan’s out of the marines.
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The movie will pick up with the Jack Ryan not long after his stint in the Marines, before he’s joined the CIA, while he’s a Wall Street stock broker, an occupation that will play heavily into the script. In the Clancy novels, Jack Ryan was a successful financial analyst in Baltimore for Merrill Lynch. In the new movie, he will have transplanted to Moscow to continue his financial advising, not for Merill Lynch (which has been absorbed by Bank of America), but for a billionaire employer. It is that billionaire employer who eventually sets Jack Ryan up to take the fall for terrorist plot designed to collapse the U.S. economy.
After that, Ryan must race against time to clear his name, reveal the terrorist plot, and save his wife, who has been taken hostage by the billionaire employer.
The producer also spoke briefly on The Associate, an adaptation of the recent John Grisham novel, which has Shia LaBeouf attached to star. It seems while Pine tries to become the next Harrison Ford, LaBeouf is trying at Tom Cruise.
What do you think of this strange return to the 90s, with new stars of the 2000s?