Amazon’s Jack Ryan series still sits among their most streamed shows. It started strongly, but in my personal opinion, it didn’t finish as well as it started. Along with the wildly disappointing adaption of Without Remorse, also set in the Ryan-verse, it feels like a missed opportunity.
Amazon still has a chance to come out strong, as they aren’t done with the world of Jack Ryan just yet. The closing scenes of the series, and Without Remorse, hinted at the bigger world and more adventures to come. There is a movie in the works that will feature Krasinski as Ryan, Wendell Pierce as Jim Greer, and Michael Kelly as Mike November all returning.
Now another cast member has signed on – Sienna Miller.
Nothing is known about the plot, but it has been confirmed that she will play a British MI6 agent working alongside Ryan.
The movie and television adaptions have long since deviated quite wildly from the source materials. The Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford movies were largely faithful adaptions of the Tom Clancy novels. Sum Of All Fears pulled a major switch by taking Ryan back to an earlier phase of his career than he was in the novel, and dramatically changed the identity of the bad guys.
By the time Chris Pine took over the role, it was all new material. The TV series seemed to borrow parts of the various novels and stitch them together.
Season two executive producer and director Andrew Bernstein will helm the movie, which has a script by Aaron Rabin. Krasinski is also producing with Allyson Seeger.
The project is being produced in association with Paramount Pictures and Skydance.