After Jack Ryan landed a TV series, another character created by late novelist Tom Clancy is getting a live-action treatment. Variety reports that Michael B. Jordan is set to play Clancy’s second most famous character, John Clark. Jordan will star as Clark in a new film series currently developed by Paramount Pictures.
According to sources, Paramount is looking to make movies based on two novels from Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six and Without Remorse, both of which have John Clark as the main character. Adaptation of Without Remorse will be released first, serving as an origin story.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman will be overlooking the project and serve as an executive producer. The studio and Goldsman are currently looking into writers and directors for this film series.
Paramount is trying to make a movie about John Clark since 2012, when the studio announced the adaptation of Without Remorse for the first time, eyeing Venom star Tom Hardy as the lead. It is worth noting that Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds was also in talks to play Clark back in 2017.
This won’t be the first time that we see John Clark on the big screen. The character was played by Willem Dafoe in 1994’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger novel, while Liev Schreiber took on the same role in 2002’s The Sum of All Fears.
