He’s got pizazz, an eye for crunching realistic violence, and a Euro sensibility that ought to suit a Clancy tale’s globetrotting.

To run things, Amazon tapped Stefano Sollima, who has directed episodes of the hard-nosed Southern Italian crime drama Gomorrah, and helmed the “let’s get right to the killing” Sicario sequel, Day of the Soldado.

Jordan, a star for this era who won hearts and minds as the ostensible villain in Black Panther after emotionally rich turns in Fruitvale Station and Creed. Who better to bring that steely determination to the role than Michael B. Someone murkier was necessary for a cool, shivery action movie, thus enter John Kelly, the SEAL turned rogue operative who is quicker to violence than golden-boy Ryan and is laden with the pathos of tragic motivation. It’s been a while since a Clancyverse movie has muscled its way into the world, so perhaps it was time for a return to his brand of geopolitical maneuvering and single-man might.Ī new era would need a new Clancy hero, away from the (supposed) rumpled competence of Jack Ryan, who is currently played, on a hit Amazon series, by John Krasinski. As the title indicates, the film is based on a novel by the late legend of bestselling CIA yarns, specifically a 1993 volume that offers a brutal origin story for a character met in previous Clancy adventures. Form fails formula in the new action movie Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (Amazon Prime, April 30), which makes a hash of its considerable pedigree.

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