Well, here’s a thrilling conclusion to your Friday afternoon. Out of the mists of the internet (well, ComingSoon.net, actually), like a bolt from the blue, comes the first photo of Chris Pine – in character, on a bike, on set, in motion – as the Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan.
Unsurprisingly, this younger, more casual incarnation of Jack Ryan looks uncannily like Chris Pine, or maybe a young James T Kirk without the fancy space clothes. He’s certainly different from the Jack Ryan previously occupied by the souls of Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck. There’s more denim, for a start.
We’ve stared at this image for some time now, trying to work out whether there are any telltale secrets buried within it. The IMDb blurb says, “Jack Ryan segues from the Marine Corps to a position as a financial consultant for a Russian billionaire, where he's framed in a terrorist plot and forced to go on the run.”
This suggests that Jack Ryan will diverge quite significantly from Tom Clancy’s novels, since the hero started out as a CIA analyst in those. The new Jack Ryan movie isn’t out until Christmas 2013, so it may be sometime before the Internet finally breaks its secrets. All we do know is that Kenneth Branagh will direct and appear as a dastardly villain, while Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner will also star.
More Jack Ryan news as it comes in. Until then, feast your eyes on the hair, trousers, sweater and shoes in evidence here:
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