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Tango0103 Sep 2018 4:02 p.m. PST

….Origin of Jack Ryan.

"In Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, the new Amazon streaming series released today, actor John Krasinski adds a dash of James Bond to the CIA's best-known number-cruncher.

Since the 1984 publication, The Hunt for Red October the character of Jack Ryan has evolved from a cable-knit sweater wearing naval strategist — complete with copies of Proceedings on his coffee table — to a body armor wearing, bruised and scarred operations officer with a pistol at the ready.

Based on a character sketch recently uncovered by U.S Naval Institute, elements of author Tom Clancy's original vision for the character have surfaced in various Jack Ryan depictions – Krasinski is the fifth actor to play the character – but so far no version has quite captured what Clancy had in mind when he set out to write his technological thrillers…."
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Augustus03 Sep 2018 6:38 p.m. PST

IMHO, Alec Baldwin was the best version.

Tango0104 Sep 2018 10:42 a.m. PST

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