The backstory of the new telling of Jack Ryan's origin story is becoming quite an origin story of its own. Paramount has been trying to kickstart the rebirth of the Jack Ryan franchise for two years -- it stalled out in 2002 with the Ben Affleck-led The Sum of All Fears. Now the latest screenwriter…
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After the success of Star Trek, Paramount decided to enter the Chris Pine business in a serious way. The company set the actor to star in Star Trek 2 and tapped him for the reboot of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character, who had previously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. But…
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Briefly: Paramount has been working on a revamp of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. Chris Pine is starring, making him the fourth actor in the role after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and Lost's Jack Bender is directing. Hossein Amini wrote a draft, then the studio picked up Adam Cozad's spec script Dubai,…
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Briefly: Lot of news coming out of Viacom's quarterly earnings report today. For gamers, there's the news that Viacom is looking to sell Rock Band developer Harmonix. On the movie side, Viacom COO Tom Dooley listed several films that Viacom and Paramount are looking to have produced for release after September 2011. They include the…
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Anthony Peckham is one of the credited screenwriters on last year's Sherlock Holmes reinvention and now he's going to have his name on Paramount's reinvention of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character, too. Peckham has been hired to polish up the draft of the script that will put Star Trek's Chris Pine into Jack Ryan's shoes.…
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Assuming that the majority of this information is valid, there are going to be about two dozen worth of news stories crammed in one here, so brace yourselves. According to a leaked email exposing Paramount's upcoming movie slate, they're going to be pretty busy over the next few years, working on a slew of potentially…
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For the past couple months, a shortlist has been going around of possible directors for Moscow, Paramount's new film / reboot of the film series featuring Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. (Chris Pine stars as Ryan this time out.) The names were generally all big: Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, Timur Bekmambetov and Kevin MacDonald, for…
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There's been no small amount of speculation about what the previously untitled Jack Ryan film starring Chris Pine will feature in terms of plot, where it might fit amongst the existing films starring Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and what it will mean for the character. Now we've got a working title --…
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