Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is still a little over a month away from premiering, but the early buzz has been exceedingly positive, even good enough for Amazon Studios to already go ahead and order a second season, set to air in 2019.
The series and its star John Krasinski are on the cover of the latest issue of
Entertainment Weekly and have shared a few interesting details about the upcoming series as well as seven intriguing new photos as Krasinski steps out into the field as the CIA's top analyst.
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Coming in hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed horror/thriller
A Quiet Place, Krasinski steps into the shoes of an analyst-turned-secret operative, but Krasinski cautions that his Ryan is far from the traditional action hero. “
Let’s be honest, I know I can’t be Superman and I know I can’t be Iron Man. So Jack Ryan sort of becomes the guy that maybe, if you work hard and dedicate yourself, you could be.”
Speaking with the trade, showrunners Carlton Cuse (
Lost) and Graham Roland (Fringe) explained what made them feel that Krasinski was the right man for the job. “
There’s a relatability about Jack Ryan that you don’t find in the Jason Bournes or the James Bonds.” They continue, “
We wanted to start our story with this guy who was just an office worker who was being pulled into something that he had never done before, and that was a journey that John was making in his career, going from a guy working on a sitcom based in an office to more of an action hero. It felt like he was the perfect guy.”
Hanin (Dina Shihabi) and Suleiman (Ali Suliman)
Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) and Ali (Haaz Sleiman)
The story will pickup around three to four years after Ryan joins the CIA and will be an origin story/prequel of sorts. The showrunners explain their reasoning, “
We tried to adapt Clear and Present Danger. About a month into it, we realized the reason the Clancy books worked so well was because they were relevant for the time that they were written. So we had to take the spirit of what he did and create our own original story.”
Jim Greer (Wendell Pierce) and Jack Ryan (John Krasinski). The star of the series offers one final tease before closing out the interview, “
Imagine if you were in your desk job and you got called to come outside the building, and then were picked up in a black car and flown to all these crazy places in the world that you didn’t think you were going, That’s basically what Jack experiences in this show.”
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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, John Krasinski is taking on a role that’s previously been played by the likes of Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, and Chris Pine. But this time around, the new Amazon series — which premieres Aug. 31 — follows the CIA analyst as he steps into the field for the first time.
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan features:
John Krasinski as Jack Ryan
Abbie Cornish as Cathy Muller
Wendell Pierce as James Greer
Peter Fonda as Joe Muller
Mena Massoud as Tarek Kassar
Timothy Hutton as Singer
Al Sapienza as Lt. Gen. Marcus Trent
Ali Suliman as Suleiman
Dina Shihabi as Hani
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan premieres August 31