Paramount's plans to reboot the
Jack Ryan Film Series have hit a snag again over script issues leading to the project being put on hold reports
Deadline.
Hossein Amini wrote the original draft of the script for the film, formerly titled "
Moscow", while
Adam Cozad was hired to re-write it in April of last year.
Anthony Peckham also took a crack at it.
Last month
Steve Zaillian, who penned the third film in the franchise "
Clear and Present Danger", was attached to re-write Cozad's work. A few weeks later Zaillian withdrew from the job and the studio is now seeking another writer to perform further work
The studio still wants to have actor
Chris Pine as Ryan, therefore the production plans have been pushed back by at least a few months so that Pine can shoot the as yet
Untitled Star Trek Sequel before, rather than after the Ryan reboot as originally intended. Trek 2 has a release date already set for July 29, 2012. but
J.J. Abrams still hasn't officially signed on to helm.
Insiders insist that a Ryan pic could have been put into production this year, but the priority now is in launching a franchise than filling in a release date ASAP
Lost's
Jack Bender is still due to direct, but his contract is not pay or play and he could walk away.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing.
The first of the films not to be based on a specific book by
Tom Clancy, the story will nevertheless use elements from the series. In this case the action picks up with Ryan in his pre-analyst days with the launching point of the film being a helicopter crash that nearly killed him when he was a marine - an incident mentioned in the first film
The Hunt for Red October in 1991.
