John Krasinski may have started his career as a loveable goofball on The Office but he’s pulled a full Chris Pratt and transitioned incredibly well into a muscley action star. Nowhere was this further established than in the first season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime’s new take on the famed literary hero. Amazon was so hot on Krasinski and co-showrunners Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland’s efforts with the big-budget series that the streaming service renewed the show for a second season before the first even aired back in August 2018.
And a few months back, Amazon once again showed their faith as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan has already been picked up for a third season ahead of the second. As for the latter, we know idea yet of when it’s dropping, but we do have a new trailer that gives us a good look of not only Krasinski’s very physical CIA analyst in action but also franchise newcomer Noomi Rapace, who has been revealed to be a German intelligence operative.
Damn, that looks fantastic. And I really mean “looks” since the trailer is mostly without any dialogue or exposition. Luckily, Amazon has also released a full synopsis now which tells us that the show is ditching the Middle East terrorist angle and instead heading to South America and the rest of the world.
After tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle, CIA Officer Jack Ryan heads down to South America to investigate. As Jack’s investigation threatens to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy, the President of Venezuela launches a counter-attack that hits home for Jack, leading him and his fellow operatives on a global mission spanning the United States, UK, Russia, and Venezuela to unravel the President’s nefarious plot and bring stability to a country on the brink of chaos.
The second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan also sees Wendell Pierce returning to the role James Greer, while other newcomers include Michael Kelly, Jordi Molla, and Jovan Adepo.
Last Updated: August 5, 2019
Yahtzee
August 5, 2019 at 08:29
Big Tuna?
HvR
August 5, 2019 at 09:57
Must give it to Amazon they are the first to embrace what Tom Clancy was all about.
For example in the novels one novel would focus on the classic bad USSR baddies of the Cold War era but the next one it would be the IRA splinter group or Palastinian Liberation army and communist East Germans working together, surviving Japanese imperialists or just one crazed airline pilot.
Richard
August 6, 2019 at 00:23
so did the movies
HvR
August 6, 2019 at 09:35
I can not think of any of the movies not directly based on book source material that did that.
Op Centre, Netforce and Shadow Recruit were all paint by numbers films copying more from other successfull films at the time instead of trying to be extention of Tom Clancy’s work.
Same for the games carrying the Tom Clancy brand, except for the original Rainbow 6 games that heavily borrowed from the Rainbow 6 novels.
Richard
August 6, 2019 at 00:31
odd that the end of last season he was headed to work with the new USSR bureau chief