I don’t know. After the second season of Jack Ryan being a complete turd-show on Prime, I don’t know if I trust them. So this would be Clark, right? After they killed of the real Clark in the new Jack Ryan series?
It looks like a good movie. I just don’t think any of the Tom Clancy universe movies or books have been worth a crap in the last 20 years.
Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and of course Hunt for Red October. Awesome. Wish they had done a mini-series on Red Storm Rising. Maybe with the 80s nostolgia and the rise of Russia they will do it- but I think they’d screw it up now. Since Ryan became POTUS, it has just lost it at the book level. The books got crappy, the movies (Sum of all Fears) got PC. That Prime Jack Ryan series had a pretty good 1st season, but they absolutely, totally, with no way to redeem themselves- jacked up the second season.
Someone better get put into a decom-pressure chamber, or I’m calling foul in the whole thing…
John Clark had Irish ancestors, not African. I know exactly why they picked a black actor: neomarxist virtue signaling. Zero interest. Hollywood can take their divisive, hate spewing ideology, and go die in a fire.
I’m the first person to roll my eyes at illogical inclusiveness in Disney Scandinavian-themed movies and Northern European fairy tales, but I don’t have a concern when an actor is cast in a movie set in present America, and it doesn’t create some jarring dissonance. Americans come in all stripes; the military reflects this. The backstory might be adjusted a hair, but frankly, plenty of black Americans have Irish ancestry, too.
A bunch of people got up in arms because an Asian woman has been contracted to pay “Katie” in The Terminal List. Who cares? As long as her story includes a family wronged by communists…it works.
I don’t think anybody cares specifically about switching the character from white to black. It’s the obvious reason behind it that people are tired of: The never ending saga of woke-ness. If they were just taking creative license, nobody would bat an eye. If this movie was made 15 years ago, I don’t think it would have raised any eyebrows because people weren’t all up in arms over race.
Looks good, but Without Remorse was a time period piece like a lot of Clancy’s works. The “drug war” was just beginning to get underway, America was still heavily involved in Vietnam and the culture was different.
I’ll probably watch it because I have Prime, but after the Jack Ryan debacle, I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment.
On the race thing, when Jonsey the sonarman was cast as black that ired some people. The actor they are using is a good one for the origin story. The ‘Clark’ in the Jack Ryan Prime reboot was more of the correct age and circumstance to the Ryan character. If they merge the stories now, Clark and Ryan are the same age? Wait till Ding finds out he is a girl.
Clancy wrote good stuff, stick with it. I don’t know why they pay for the IP and then throw it out?
Subversion. Everything is about pushing their agenda. Nothing is sacred. They are extremely cutthroat people, fanatically obsessed with pushing their worldview. They are communists. Agents of chaos.
I doubt anybody was getting their woke on about a Tom Clancy property.
As someone who works in the industry, my guess is someone (a producer working with a talent agency on a packaging deal) pitched this to be “bold” and to hire one of the hottest actors in Hollywood after his work on Fahrenheit 451 and Creed. And maybe to line him up for another couple of flicks.
This isn’t Marxism, it’s just a business bet about entertainment.
At least the screen play and director don’t seem to be the same people at S2 of Jack Ryan.
I’m just going to repeat what a complete POC the S2 was of Jack Ryan. Killed off ‘Clark’, got rid of Cathy Ryan AND had horrible gun, tech and tactics- the second of which- tech- has to have Tom Clancy wanting to drag the producers behind the Rueben James as a nixie to decoy Soviet torpedoes…
I saw that, Adm. Greer needs to be played by James Earl Jones only, and not turned into a muslim like in the Jack Ryan show.
Without Remorse is a period piece as previously mentioned and plays a major role in understanding John Clark and where he came from. I don’t see how they can get it right by bringing it into the current age, add in the forced woke-ness and I’m out. I think I’d rather reread the book. I enjoy Clancy’s books, even the Jack Ryan Jr series that has been kept alive by the other writers.
So much THIS, even though I’ve skipped the Jack Jr. line.
s for Hollywood whizzing all over Clancy IP, this is what happens when neo-Orwellians want a perpetual “Year Zero” from 1984 and summarily discard such important things as historical context… Jack Jr. novels are the place for more “today” stuff, even though they’re quite a bit darker than "The First Generation. Not as bad as Dale Brown’s regular “how many beloved characters can I kill off this time without provoking a mass Reader Revolt” binges, but…
I agree that the only Clancy movies that are worth watching are Red October, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger. The Jack Ryan series is actually really good in my opinion. However, it is marred by the usual wokeness. Pretty much any movie or show that deals with Islamic extremism is going to have a Muslim main character, and an emphasis that the bad guy is driven by a legitimate gripe with the U.S. for bombing his village and not because he follows a harsh interpretation of Islam that demands the conquest of the world and the extermination of infidels.