Variety reports that Chris Pine, who starred as James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ smasheroo reboot of Star Trek this summer, might be rebooting another Paramount franchise too, the Jack Ryan CIA series that produced the ’90s titles The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and 2002’s The Sum of All Fears. If the project happens, Pine would be the fourth actor to star as the Tom Clancy spy guy (first one: Alec Baldwin, middle two: Harrison Ford, last one: Ben Affleck).
So, are there other dormant series out there that need resurrection? You betcha. What about bringing back Harry Palmer, the tousled '60s secret agent played by Michael Caine in The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain. Jude Law – Caine’s sparring partner in the not-so-great 2007 remake of Sleuth – could fit right in if the Len Deighton tomes were to be retackled.
And I for one would love to see a new Thin Man series, although it’d be hard to find anyone as tipsily droll (or drollily tipsy?) as William Powell, and as cool and classy as Myrna Loy, the Nick and Nora Charles of the six Thin Man movies. Suggestions, anyone?
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