In two weeks, Chris Pine will become the fourth actor to appear on the big screen as Jack Ryan, the character created by best-selling author Tom Clancy and previously portrayed by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. Those are some mighty big shoes to fill, but Pine is no stranger to taking over iconic roles and making them his own (see the two J.J. Abrams Star Trek films for a perfect example).
But before Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit hits theaters, Paramount are giving us a taste of things to come with this extended fight sequence, which appears to take place fairly early in the film. Check it out, courtesy of Yahoo.
Hopefully this clip is just scratching the surface of what the film has to offer. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit also stars Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, and Kenneth Branagh (who also directs). It opens on January 17.
Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan” is a global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot.
The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he’s uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that’s more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley).
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