Jack Ryan gets a reboot
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Did you know
Jack Ryan has prevlously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck.
Based on the CIA analyst created by espionage master Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a blistering action thriller that follows Ryan (Chris Pine) from his quiet double-life as a veteran-turned-Wall Street executive to his all-out initiation as a hunted American agent on the trail of a massive terrorist plot in Moscow.
Ryan appears to be just another New York executive to his friends and loved ones, but his enlistment into the CIA secretly goes back years. When Ryan ferrets out a meticulously planned scheme to collapse the US economy and spark global chaos, he becomes the only man with the skills to stop it. Now, he’s gone fully operational, thrust into a world of mounting suspicion, deception and deadly force.
Caught between his tight-lipped handler Harper (Kevin Costner), his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley) and a brilliant Russian (Kenneth Branagh), Jack must confront a new reality where no one can seem to be trusted, yet the fate of millions rests on his finding the truth. With the urgency of a lit fuse, he’s in a race to stay one step ahead of everyone around him.
Catch the action and intrigue when Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit hits cinemas on January 16.
Vocabulary
- espionage (n): the activity of secretly getting important political or military information about another country or of finding out another company’s secrets by using spies
blistering (adj): done very fast or with great energy
meticulously (adv): paying careful attention to every detail
intrigue (n): the atmosphere of interest and excitement that surrounds something secret or important
