Comments on: Chris Pine To Be Next Jack Ryan + Cho’s FlashForward Gets Full Season Order

By: Greg2600

Greg2600 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:55:41 +0000

I’m sure its a big payday, but I think this role is a bad idea for Chris Pine. When you’re already compared to Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford right off the bat, that’s trouble. Sum of all Fears was horrible, and frankly I think Jack Ryan is not a recoverable franchise. It’s not James Bond. Honestly, Hunt for Red October was awesome, Patriot Games stunk, and Clear and Present Danger was terrific. If those second two didn’t star Harrison Ford, they would have been forgotten.

By: alberto nuñez

alberto nuñez — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:48:55 +0000

Good luck, mister Pine!

By: Iowagirl

Iowagirl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:37:42 +0000

I wonder if Chris Pine will model Jack Ryan after Bill Shatner. :D

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By: JKP

JKP — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:29:33 +0000

@47: As much as I love Nic Meyer, I’m not sure he’d be up to the tempo the new film established (for right or wrong).

Nic’s more of a thinker. We’d likely end up with a superior Trek film, but it probably wouldn’t have the broad appeal, IMO.

A fascinating idea, though.

By: JKP

JKP — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:27:08 +0000

Will be strange seeing him as Jack Ryan. Alec Baldwin was the best Jack Ryan, and Ford was good too. Big shoes to fill (but I guess he’s used to that now).

They’ll have to remake the early Ryan novels, don’t see how he could be playing the Ryan of the later novels. Or, like Bond, they could just rip off a title and go in another direction entirely. (I think they retain the rights as long as they keep cranking out flicks every X number of years.)

By: capnjake

capnjake — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:17:17 +0000

as for trek 12 J.J. should talk his old family friend Nicholas Meyer to come back and direct another Star Trek Film.
especially if J.J. himself decides he doesnt want to direct this time around.

By: capnjake

capnjake — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:11:13 +0000

This sucks as i said on another site, dont get me wrong i think chris is a fine actor and he was great both in trek and also when i went and saw him in Farrgut north this past summer at the geffen playhouse.

But darn it all give us the latter jack ryan novels allready, I want to see President Jack Ryan in action on screen allready.
Its strange its taken this long to get a new jack ryan and film and that they are replacing affleck as The Sum of all fears made a nice little profit back in 2002.

And what happened to the John Clark spin off with Liev Schriber that they were suppose to be working on, he was awesome in Sum of All fears.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:11 +0000

I think it would be better if the movie is not in the summer. There is so much good competition at that time. Why not in the first quarter of 2012? With worse competition, it will get a lot of the film-goers then. That will be probably more than a smaller part in the summer.

I also think that summer is not THE best cinema month in the world. In Germany it is for example often the case, that people don’t go to the cinema, if the weather is good. They do then more outside activities. Perhaps that is somewhere else so, too. And even if not, it is international, where Star Trek is not so popular as in the USA, even more important, that there aren’t so many other good films at the same time in the cinemas.

By: dmduncan

dmduncan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:44:53 +0000

Congratulations Captain Jack! And Pine totally has the acting chops, you kidding? Look at Smokin Aces. He had the most memorable character in that crazy flik—the funniest scene in the movie, and with Ben Affleck, no less.