Episode 115 - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
- Author
- Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
- Published
- Tue 25 Feb 2025
- Episode Link
- https://sites.libsyn.com/290192/episode-115-jack-ryan-shadow-recruit-2014
"FebruaRYAN" concludes with a look at 2014's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Twelve years after The Sum of All Fears failed to reignite the Jack Ryan franchise, Paramount tried once again to tell a new Ryan origin story, with a new "hot young star of the moment" leading man in the role. But this particular Ryan movie arrived in a post-MCU world, when the importance of "IP" had become even more evident, and the concept of - say it with us - "cinematic universes" had become all the rage. How did that affect the approach to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit? And why did the movie ultimately suffer essentially the same fate as its predecessor? We discuss all this, and more, as we wrap up our look at failed reboots of Tom Clancy's beloved CIA analyst.
