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"
Paramount pused back the start of the action film by at least a few months so that Pine could shoot the now completed production of the as yet Untitled Star Trek Sequel.
The reboot will be the first film in the series not to be based on a specific book by author Tom Clancy, who created the character. 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 is producing the film.
While attending the Cannes Film Festival, Empire Online asked the actor as to the film's current status.
"The latest is that it looks like it’s happening. We have a script, and the beginnings of the production are happening" says Pine.
He was then asked if Clancy's hero can still work in this day and age?
"The trick with that one is to try to find a way to make an American spy movie in 2012 that’s just as current and apropos to the world situation, what it means to be an American spy, as it was in the Cold War era. It’s a little bit more difficult now, and tricky, but if we get that right, we’ll make an intelligent thriller."
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