Is CIA agent and future President Jack Ryan up for competing with the likes of cooler action heroes like Jason Bourne? Moviehole says that Philip Noyce, the director of ’90s Jack Ryan vehicles Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, has personally confirmed that he is not attached to a fifth film in the series but that one is being prepped to star actor Ryan Gosling. Gosling would be the fourth actor to take on the role, following Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October), Harrison Ford (the Noyce films), and your favorite, Ben Affleck (2002’s The Sum of All Fears).
Moreover, Noyce previously confirmed that a Jack Ryan movie was in the works but would not involve input from the character’s creator, author Tom Clancy. It seems that Paramount Pictures owns the movie rights to Jack Ryan and can make him bark or hop on one leg at will. How about some more Noyce? Noyce was attached to direct a film entitled By Any Means Necessary about “a cop who turns to a mobster for inside information to prevent a terrorist attack,” but director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) is now on board. The consensus seems to be that this film will be massaged into a young Jack Ryan picture starring Gosling a la Affleck’s outing.
Gosling’s performance in The Notebook earned the females’ attention, Half Nelson earned him an Oscar nom, Fracture opposite Anthony Hopkins upped his exposure, and his last film, Lars and the Real Girl, was thought to be a quirky indie sleeper like Juno but proved a non-starter and split critics. A big budget action film sounds about right, unless he wants to keep to the Johnny Depp route. Any Tom Clancy fans not stoked about this news?
January 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I am very stoked!!! for gosling and jack ryan….
January 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Uh. I can’t stand Clancy. It’s just bad supermarket literature.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I just want a good, hard-R “Rainbow Six” that at least takes the set pieces of the book and translates them into movie form.
How often do we see terrorists attacks on theme parks? NEVER! It’d be perfect!
January 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
theme parks? why im i thinking beverly cops 3? but gosling… pleeeaase.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I’m hoping that gosling follows the ‘depp route’ you mentioned. Dark, Off-beat, odd movies & genres. I was bummed about the whole lovely bones mess (still don’t know what really happened) chris isaak does the same kinds roles, obviously not as big, but still very cool. I’d love to see gosling & depp work with David lynch…but I won’t hold my breath.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
It could work. He’s a bit too young to play a president. I agree with Kapit though, if you are going to make a Tom Clancy movie make “Rainbow Six.” He would also play a good young John Clark in “Without Remorse.”
January 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I read on another site Without Remorse was being made with rumored Joajuin Phoenix to star.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 am
Can’t say I’s enjoy seeing Jack Ryan played by Gosling, he just has too much of a pretty boy look. And he definitely should not play John Kelly.
On that note though, I would love to see a movie based on Without Remorse.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
dennis quaid…nuff said!!!
have you seen Vantage Point???