Emma Marlowe (Sienna Miller), James Greer (Wendell Pierce) , and Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) in TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR
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Jack Ryan, a former US Marine and stockbroker, is the protagonist of 14 bestselling novels by Tom Clancy, starting with Patriot Games in 1987. Apart from video games and series, there have been six film adaptations of the Ryanverse, from The Hunt for Red October in 1990 to Jack Ryan: Ghost War, which released recently and is currently streaming on Prime Video. The actioneris a continuation of the series, Jack Ryan, which aired for four seasons on the streamer between 2018 and 2023.John Krasinski, reprises his role in Ghost War, playing a reluctant Ryan, who is brought back to active duty when there are rogue agents out to destroy the world. There were aspects of Jack Ryan that director Andrew Bernstein was determined to both protect and challenge.Protecting the integrity“The version I was most excited to protect was the integrity of the character that we had established,” Bernstein says, speaking over a video call from New York City. “It was also important that the audience learn something new about this character. We were going to put him in a situation where we were going to test what we thought about him, the knowledge we had about him, and then further expand that knowledge.”Bernstein says the filmmakers wanted to challenge Ryan’s assumptions about the world. “The exciting thing about Ghost War is Ryan coming into the film thinking one thing and leaving thinking something else. The reason he does that is because he’s challenged by the situations. The relationships that are important to him force him to confront his thinking about what the world is, was, and will be.”
