Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Trailer

Tom Clancy has passed away this week at the age of 66 sadly. However, the trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, the film adaptation of Clancy’s most famous character, has been unleashed online thanks to Paramount Pictures.

Chris Pine stars as the titular analyst reluctantly recruited by the CIA and played in  previous incarnations by Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October),  Harrison Ford (Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger) and Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears). Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit follows Ryan from 9/11 through Afghanistan and into the CIA, where he uncovers a Russian plot to undermine the U.S. economy.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Adam Cozad and David Koepp, it co-stars Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner and Branagh himself.

The action thriller opens on January 17, 2014.