New Jack Ryan Flick, 'Moscow,' To Shoot Soon

Remember when Chris Pine was in the running for everything after Star Trek and the role he settled on was a Jack Ryan reboot? Well, it's been dormant for several months, but producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura tells Collider the movie is shooting pretty soon, which means it might get to theaters a couple years from now. One thing that's different is that Moscow, as the reboot is tentatively called, isn't based on a Tom Clancy book, but rather an earlier unproduced screenplay by Hossein Amini, who co-wrote the Ryan-ed up version with Adam Cozad. That script was called Dubai, and some of the events have been changed to reflect a younger Jack Ryan right out of the Marine Corps, working as a financial consultant for a Russian billionaire when he finds himself wrapped up in a terrorist plot. According to di Bonaventura, the retooling of the screenplay went swimmingly. "We have a very good script," the producer reports. I think it’s...I’m very happy with where we are today and we’re looking forward to...maybe with a little luck starting next late winter/early spring." Ryan in an enduring presence, even though for four films he's been played by three actors and there's never been enough consistency to call it a true series, not by the standard of today's five-picture character arcs. And, sure, I guess Ryan has built a big enough audience that he deserves a more cohesive launch, which has to be the plan here, since everyone's trying to get in the Jason Bourne business. But there's plenty of material to draw from down the line should Paramount stand behind the character and develop some sort of plan this time.

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No consistancy huh? well what about the fact that all 4 jack ryan films were directed by the same director. 2 of them stared the same actor the first 3 of them were pretty much connected. and the last one while it was a prequel that for whatever reason took place in the wrong time, still set up the relationships and characters that were seen in the earlier films.

there is no reason why paramount couldnt have done a sequal to sum of all fears years ago.