John Krasinski revealed as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
John Krasinski has finally been unveiled as the titular character in a new trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.
The trailer is offering fans a look at how Krasinski will handle assuming the well-known role. Krasinski might at first seem like a strange choice for the part, given his propensity for comedic roles. But he demonstrated his action chops in last year’s Michael Bay-directed war drama 13 Hours.
According to Amazon Prime, Ryan’s story will be told over eight, one-hour episodes, where the character “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.”
A New Ryan
With any luck, fans will embrace this new iteration of Ryan. The character has been played by a handful of high-profile actors over the years. From Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford to Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. The latter starred in director Kenneth Branagh’s film reboot of the series – Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – which failed to find a large audience when it was released in 2014.
Like the 2014 film, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will focus on the younger version of the CIA analyst. The big difference being that the series will have eight hours to help develop the character and get a better look as to why readers have embraced Ryan in Clancy’s 24 novels.
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan premieres on Amazon in 2018.
