Jack Ryan To Take On ISIS Scumbags

Man, how many Jack Ryans have there been?  I think this guy, John Krasinski, may be the fifth.  But not on the movie screen.

According to Deadline Lindsey Springer, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will all executive produce a ‘Jack Ryan’ show for Amazon.  But what will the show be about?

John Krasinski tells Collider that the upcoming series will be heavily serialised and essentially one big film:

“We’re doing 10 episodes and I think the interesting part about it is exactly what you said, everything’s changed so much; the line between film and TV has blurred so much over the years, I think Jack Ryan is a product of that blurring so much that I think that they’re not even really considering it a TV show, they’re calling it a movie that’s being told in 10 parts; and that’s not just an argument of semantics, it’s actually true.

Carlton Cuse’s whole plan is we’re gonna shoot it on a movie budget, we’re gonna have the same stunts as movies, it’s gonna feel like a movie but you’re gonna watch it every week. His whole idea was he just felt that two hours wasn’t enough time to tell a Jack Ryan story because Tom Clancy’s books are so detailed and rich, and the character of Jack Ryan if he has a superpower is his intelligence, so there’s a lot of problem solving and things that take time, and that’s the beauty of the spy genre. That’s what I found was the best pitch to me is it’s really just what’s the best format to tell this story?”

Like the ill-fated Chris Pine reboot though, this series is ignoring the novels in favor of a new story with plans to tackle modern, real-world issues. For the first season, that threat will be the one on the front pages – ISIS:

“Every year they’re gonna be different. They’re sort of more ripped-from-the-headlines type stuff, so the first year the villain or I don’t know what you want to call it is it’s taking on ISIS for sure.”