Chris Pine lined up to play Jack Ryan

Star Trek’s Chris Pine will be going where Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck have gone before with news that he looks set to play Jack Ryan in the next Tom Clancy based movie.

Studio Paramount confirmed the gossip, saying in a statement that “Tom Clancy created an unfortgettable character with Jack Ryan. With Chris in the role, we’ve taken our first step in creating a reboot that lives up to the successful lineage of the franchise.”

Detail on the new Jack Ryan based film are sketchy with Variety reporting that producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) and Mace Neufeld are said to be currently working with writer Hossein Amini (The Four Feathers) on the movie, which is said to be a complete “reboot” of the series.

Disturbing perhaps, reports claim that the new Jack Ryan movie will not be based on a Clancy book, but instead be an original. Given how much they f*cked up the original time-lines and stories in the previous Jack Ryan based movies, maybe that’s not a completely bad thing.