Ryan is the new Ryan?
Ben Affleck's attempt at resurrecting the Jack Ryan franchise six years ago with THE SUM OF ALL FEARS was a commendable effort. I quite enjoyed it as a thriller, even if it wasn't a patch on the Harrison Ford movies that went before it, or the John McTiernan directed THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER with Alec Baldwin in the lead role. It's rather surprising it has taken this long for movement on the next installment of the franchise which ten years ago was seen as the America version of James Bond, something that I guess the BOURNE series is today. Reports today say that Ryan Gosling will now carry the franchise with a shocker being that Tom Clancy won't be involved...
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That's right, the word from Moviehole is that the new film won't be based on any of Clancy's writings and it will instead be a brand new 'made for film' story depicting a young Jack Ryan, similar to how Ben Affleck portrayed him. It will have no connection what-so-ever to any previous Jack Ryan canon. The site also speculate (and it seems to make sense) that a script picked up by Paramount in 2005 titled BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (there's a Clancy sounding title if I ever heard one) from screenwriter Daniel Pyne (he wrote FEARS) with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct might be chopped and changed to be used as a Ryan vehicle. Doesn't it just piss you off when they do stunts like this. If it's not going to be a movie in the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan universe then why don't you just use the character from the original script, use Ryan Gosling... do it in the style of the Clancy movies but don't use the name just to make some cheap cash. It's false advertising from where I stand.