Over the course of four gloriously dad-core seasons, Prime Video’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan saw star John Krasinski cement his transition from The Office‘s somewhat dorkish Jim Halpert to bona fide action hero. More than capably filling the shoes of former Ryans Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine, Krasinski shone as the superheroic CIA analyst torn from his desk job and thrust into dangerous field assignments. Now, three years after Ryan announced he was taking a well-earned sabbatical following that mic-drop Congressional hearing, John Krasinski’s action man is back back back in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War. And as the trailer below teases, it looks like we’re in for a doozy of a follow-up with Jack’s feature-length return:
Explosions? Check! Wendell Pierce? Check! A radicalised military group who are both intelligent and dangerous? Check! Well, well, well, what other choice does our man Jack Ryan have than to swap the sweats for a flak jacket and start taking names, kicking asses, and getting up close and personal with a bunch of ruffians in what Amazon are describing as ‘a major movie event’? No other choice is the answer, folks. No other choice. (But not that No Other Choice, of course.) And honestly, seeing Jack and his old boss James (Pierce) reunited, glimpsing the arrival of Sienna Miller’s cast newcomer — and MI6 agent — Emma Marlow, we’re certainly not complaining.
The official synopsis for Ghost War, directed by Andrew Bernstein (Ozark) from a script by series regular writers Aaron Rabin (Nobody 2) and Krasinski himself, reads: “Operating in real time with lives on the line and the threat escalating at every turn, Jack reunites with battle-tested CIA operative Mike November (Michael Kelly) and former CIA boss James Greer (Wendell Pierce). Their combined experience is the only edge they have against an enemy who knows their every move. Backed by an unlikely new partner – razor-sharp MI6 officer Emma Marlowe (Miller) – Jack and the team navigate a treacherous web of betrayal, facing a past they thought was long put to rest.”
Between yesterday’s exciting A Quiet Place: Part III casting updates and now this trailer for Ghost War, it’s not been a bad 24 hours or so to be a John Krasinski fan. We’ll see where Krasinski’s feature-length Jack Ryan bow sits on the scale from Shadow Recruit to The Hunt For Red October when Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War premieres on Prime Video on 20 May.
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