THE OFFICE Star John Krasinski Is The New JACK RYAN
It's official. A new report has revealed that Paramount TV's upcoming Amazon series based on the Tom Clancy creation has cast The Office & 13 Hours star John Krasinski in the lead role. Come check it out!
Jim Halpert is your new Jack Ryan.
Deadline is reporting that John Krasinski, former star of NBC's hit comedy The Office, has signed on to portray the latest incarnation of Jack Ryan. This news comes a few months after we originally received word that Paramount TV & Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes were developing a television series based on Tom Clancy's popular CIA hero for Amazon with a series commitment and the Lost duo of Carlton Cuse & Graham Roland attached as co-showrunners.
The potential series will be a more contemporary take on Jack Ryan, following him in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative and will only use the novels as source material. The project hasn't officially been greenlit just yet, but the addition of Krasinski certainly bodes well for the show's chances.
Krasinski is the latest in a long line of actors to tackle the role of Ryan, following in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin (The Hunt For Red October), Harrison Ford (Patriot Games; Clear And Present Danger), Ben Affleck (The Sum Of All Fears), and Chris Pine (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit). Krasinski was most recently seen in the Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and will be seen next in the J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi thriller God Particle.
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