Who Will Play Jack Ryan's Wife In Reboot?

Keira Knightley is said to have the inside track, while Felicity Jones ("Like Crazy") and former "Lost" actress Evangeline Lilly are also in line to play Cathy Muller, the future wife to be of Jack Ryan, in the fifth adventure in the Jack Ryan Film Series says Deadline.

Both Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel were also up for the role of Cathy but are no longer in the running.

Anne Archer played Cathy in two of the previous films, Gates McFadden and Bridget Moynahan played her once each. Whomever gets the nod will be under option to play the role in potentially three films.

In this chapter Chris Pine plays Ryan as an ex-Marine who now works as 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 Untitled Jack Ryan Project

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 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 Mace Neufeld and David Barron will produce.