There’s been so many Jack Ryans down the years, a collective noun is now needed. A ‘panic' of Jack Ryans? Maybe a ‘conspiracy' of Ryans? Either way, John Krasinski is joining those esteemed ranks in a show, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, that’s just received the green light from Amazon Prime.
Following in the footsteps of Harrison Ford, Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck as Tom Clancy's CIA super-analyst, Krasinski will be spearheading the ten-parter and bringing his 13 Hours action chops to bear on a whole new gamut of nasties. The episodes will each be an hour long.
Amazon Studios has former Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse teaming up with another veteran of the island, writer/producer Graham Roland (a former Marine), to steer the new show. They won’t be directly adapting any of Clancy’s books, but will instead be showcasing the character as a CIA agent/analyst in the present day, a few years beyond when we see him in the 2014 film, without being a continuation of that take on the character.
The show will shoot in US, Europe and Africa, offering plenty of modern-day geopolitical chicanery for Ryan to deal with. Runs the synopsis: "The series follows Ryan as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the centre of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.” The stakes are, as the saying goes, quite big.