It was reported a few months ago that Star Trek star Chris Pine was to take over the next Jack Ryan film, stepping in the shoes that Ben Affleck, Harrison Ford, and Alec Baldwin previously wore. We know it isn’t an origin story and won’t be based off any of the Tom Clancy novels. Pajiba now has some new details on the project, which you can check out below.
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.
Screenwriter Adam Cozad, who is currently rewriting Hossein Amini’s original draft, wrote a script titled Dubai. It was his first script deal, which he sold to Jack Ryan producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura in 2007. Pajiba reports Eric Bana was once set to produce and possibly star in the film, but since that project didn’t happen it looks like many of the script elements made their way into the new Jack Ryan film. We also have a new tentative title for the new Jack Ryan film: Moscow.
Are you looking forward to a new Jack Ryan film with Chris Pine? Does it sound like a good story?