In news that isn’t all too surprising but still welcome, Deadline is reporting that Amazon has given Jack Ryan a “10-episode straight-to-series order”.
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Jack Ryan continues the latest trend in Hollywood of taking a well established feature film property and re-developing it for the small screen. Starring John Krasinski as the titular hero, the show comes to us from Lost’s Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland.
As an Amazon original series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will be available to Prime subscribers at a future (currently unannounced) date.
If you recall, Jack Ryan first pulled into Amazon back in the spring and found itself with a series commitment, which is why we said none of this is too surprising – especially now that Krasinski has been locked in. Cuse and Rolan will also executive produce the project alongside Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form; Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross; and Mace Neufeld and Lindsey Springer. “Our customers will enjoy a compelling adaptation of the action-packed spy thriller book series, further raising the bar for the quality level of storytelling that has made Prime Video a leading destination for content”.
Bay, meanwhile, has the upcoming fourth and final season of Starz’s Black Sails as well as TNT’s The Last Ship.
Perhaps that’s just what this franchise needs; though Deadline notes that Jack Ryan films have grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide, the C.I.A. agent’s latest big-screen outing, 2014’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, earned a mere $50 million domestically (and a so-so $85 million outside the U.S.).
At Skydance, Jack Ryan joins a roster of TV projects that include WGN America’s Manhattan, Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, Altered Carbon as well as Spike’s Red Mars.
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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan follows an up-and-coming Central Intelligence Agency analyst thrust into a unsafe field assignment for the first time.
