They’re going to adapt Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse and Rainbow Six. Michael B. Jordan will be playing the title character John Clark, and yes: I know that Clark was Irish and Jordan is African-American. Jordan was also Killmonger in Black Panther, and so ridiculously good in that role that I wish that they had kept the character alive. Also, the main plot of Without Remorse involved Clark going through Baltimore killing pimps and drug dealers in sometimes alarming ways; so I suspect that if you want them to otherwise stay faithful to the book, well… :shrug:
But, seriously: Michael B. Jordan can do John Clark properly. I look forward to seeing the flicks. Assuming that they don’t end up sucking, of course.
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I’m putting up Tom Clancy’s military counterterror technothriller Rainbow Six because weren’t they going to make a movie version? They were trying to get Ryan Reynolds to play John Clark, which I dunno is that great a fit. I mean, obviously Reynolds can play a badass, but I always saw Clark as being more hulking than Reynolds. Also: can they afford him, at this point? Ryan Reynolds probably has at least one more Deadpool movie in him, or at least an X-Force movie. …But I digress. Rainbow Six has a bit of the Clancy Bloat to it, but I never cared too much; it’s a blessed beach book anyway.
Wow that’s not how it works. That’s not how any of it works.
Continue reading The “…Wait, that is supposed to be Jack Ryan?” trailer.
I got turned on to Tom Clancy novels by a buddy in college. The Hunt For Red October was maybe the first one I read, because of the movie (which is, of course, excellent, and not least because it boasts a remarkably good cast). It was about then, I think, that I started coming to the (at the time) uncomfortable realization that maybe Ronald Reagan wasn’t an amiable dunce after all. …Much followed, from that.
And so, adieu to Hard Magic. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Hunt For Red October.
OK, look.
I picked Red Storm Rising because I was trying to remember a passage from it the other day, looked it up, and ended up reading half the book at one sitting. When Tom Clancy was on, he was on – and this was classic ‘conventional WWIII against the Soviet Union’ stuff. But: it is not a goram ‘Jack Ryan novel.’
Sheesh.
And so, adieu to Fugue State.
…if you buy it via Prime. It’s listed at $100 normally, but they’re taking $20 off if you go the Amazon route there. I wonder if that deal will still be going on a month from now? I can usually count on birthday Amazon.
And is anybody else thinking of picking up this game? I’m wondering whether it’s a shooter or an RPG. Although the line there can blur.
Like everybody else I started up with him after I saw The Hunt for Red October, which is of course an awesome movie. I was just startled to discover that the books were good, too. I always thought that they should have done Red Storm Rising as a miniseries; but at this point it’d be alternate history.
Rest in peace. My condolences to his family and loved ones.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, the books got rather large after a while. Many authors have that problem, once they get to the point where they can tell an editor ‘No.’ But let us not speak of that.
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Bestselling author Tom Clancy has died.
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) October 2, 2013
Yes, yes, Dead or Alive
And so ends the reign of The High King of Montival
Yes, I stole that from Patriot Games
