The Faux Return of Jack Ryan
Filed under: Action, RumorMonger, Remakes and Sequels
Oh, the plight of the writer, who exists so low on the
Movieweb has reported that Phillip Noyce, director of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, has heard that there are plans to bring Jack Ryan back to the big screen. The loophole allows
Why bother? Sure, Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan was a box office success, but that was as part of the film versions of Clancy's novels. If you have to go to all the effort to create a new story for an old, established character, why not just use that creativity to write up someone new? In any medium, once the original creator's vision exits stage, the audience starts murmuring sounds of protest. Eh, forget it. We should just throw all the classic icons into new settings, and I'm not talking about super heroes. How about Raskolnikov in a new college comedy, or a dead Emily Webb in a ghostly thriller?
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11-25-2006 @ 3:11PM
lp said...
Jack Ryan was also played by Alec Baldwin & *spits* Ben Affleck so it's not really a character with a stable movie history anyway.
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11-25-2006 @ 3:37PM
Michael said...
Remember, the Clancy scripted films were also not shot in the order the books were written (ala Ian Fleming's James Bond). I would think this would also give them license to use different actors in the role depending on where in the timeline the story is supposed to fall.
Personally, I thought going back to Ryan's youth with Ben Affleck was a decent way to reinvent the franchise. Regardless of all the criticism he gets, he's not nearly as incompetent as many make him out to be. Ben was actually very passible in this role introducing Jack Ryan to the world. I'd pay to see a good Tom Clancy script with him reprising that role again.
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11-25-2006 @ 7:52PM
Josh Boelter said...
I liked Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan as well. I thought he played the part well as a young Ryan, still unsure of himself on the job.
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