In this chapter Chris Pine plays Ryan as an ex-Marine who now works s a successful financial analyst in Moscow. He discovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy.
"Thor" director Kenneth Branagh will pull double duty calling action and playing the Russian villain in the film. Kevin Costner also stars in the film as as Ryan’s mentor who recruits him and shows him the ropes. He's a new creation but serves the same way that Admiral Greer does played by James Earl Jones in the first three films. Keira Knightley beat out both Felicity Jones ("Like Crazy") and former "Lost" actress Evangeline Lilly to play Cathy Muller, the future wife to be of Jack Ryan. Nonso Anozie ("The Grey) has signed on as a character name of Embee. David Paymer has been cast as an American diplomat
Hossein Amini wrote the original draft of the script for the film, formerly titled "Moscow", while Adam Cozad was hired to re-write it and then Anthony Peckham took a crack at it.
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 then David Koepp came in to perform further work on the screenplay. As Hollywood's most famous go-to rewriter Koepp has worked on the scripts for Mission: Impossible," "Spider-Man," and "Jurassic Park"
The reboot will be the first film in the series not to be based on a specific book by the late author and character's creator 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 and 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.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura Mace Neufeld and David Barron will produce.
Pine has already proven he has both the acting and action chops for a film like this thanks to Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness--so that there's no worry in that regard. Branagh and the script seem to have kept the action stuff very grounded--which is good. Ryan should be the hero not a super hero
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