Just a couple of weeks ago, we revealed that a new Jack Ryan TV series is in the works over at Amazon. The new ten-parter is entitled Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and sees John Krasinski play the title character and just today, some brand new details have been revealed about the show, which will start shooting very soon.
Krasinski met up with movie website Collider and explained to them that this won’t be your typical show but more of a movie told across 10-parts. Here’s what he had to say:
“We’re doing 10 episodes and I think the interesting part about it is exactly what you said, everything’s changed so much; the line between film and TV has blurred so much over the years, I think Jack Ryan is a product of that blurring so much that I think that they’re not even really considering it a TV show, they’re calling it a movie that’s being told in 10 parts; and that’s not just an argument of semantics, it’s actually true.”
“Carlton Cuse’s whole plan is we’re gonna shoot it on a movie budget, we’re gonna have the same stunts as movies, it’s gonna feel like a movie but you’re gonna watch it every week. His whole idea was he just felt that two hours wasn’t enough time to tell a Jack Ryan story because Tom Clancy’s books are so detailed and rich, and the character of Jack Ryan if he has a superpower is his intelligence, so there’s a lot of problem solving and things that take time, and that’s the beauty of the spy genre.”
Wow. This sounds huge. Here are his comments on who Ryan will be taking on the the ten-hour ‘movie’.
“Every year they’re gonna be different. They’re sort of more ripped-from-the-headlines type stuff, so the first year the villain or I don’t know what you want to call it is it’s taking on ISIS for sure.”
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will hit in 2017. Can’t wait.
