If it wasn't for Martin Scorsese's troubles with The Wolf of Wall Street, we'd already be talking about how Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit fared over the holidays. But instead it was bumped down to later this month when it will be one of the year's first potential blockbusters. The first action-packed clip, clocking in at over four minutes has been released, joined by a pair of character posters featuring Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner. Hers is particularly interesting as the "Accomplice. Asset. Weapon" descriptors suggest she'll be a lot more than just Jack Ryan's wife, but we can probably assume everybody is more than who they seem to be. The clip, very much in the vein of Jason Bourne, shows Ryan putting his fighting skills to the test and making his very first kill. Sure there will be plenty more where that came from.
Directed by and co-starring Kenneth Branagh, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opens January 17th.
PLOT: Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan” is a global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot.
The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he’s uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that’s more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancĂ©e Cathy (Keira Knightley).
