News has broken that the new Jack Ryan movie has found a new director after Jack Bender vacated the project last week. His replacement will be Brit-stalwart Kenneth Branagh, who last summer showed he was capable of helming a big-budget blockbuster when Marvel’s THOR became a huge hit.
Branagh was the surprise choice for THOR, the actor and director was more famed for bringing Shakespeare’s works to screen and the much-maligned MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN. Paramount obviously feel he’s the right man to take over the project with a decision that comes rather soon after the news of Bender’s exit.
Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst and all-round American hero, has been portrayed by Alec Baldwin in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990), Harrison Ford in PATRIOT GAMES (1992) and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (1994) and finally Ben Affleck in THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (2002).
STAR TREK and THIS MEANS WAR’s Chris Pine is already on-board to play Clancy’s patriotic icon in the as-yet-untitled action-thriller.
Source: Variety
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