I’ve seen several movies based off Tom Clancy, however the irony is that I never got around to reading the books they were based off of. I have read a few ‘Net Force’ books, but one in particular that I enjoyed was ‘Debt of Honor’, perhaps because I have a great interest in the Pacific Theatre in WWII and the book was sorta a throwback to that. It would make an interesting movie, but I wonder if Hollywood could even get away making a movie like that without accusations of ‘cultural insensitivity’ or some such dreck. After all, the only nations that can be bad guys these days are Arabs and Russians :rolleyes:
Nope, not even Arabs or Russians can be bad guys. Or the Chinese. Or any African nations. All that movie makers have left is to create their own fictional “rogue” nations, or to have crap like extremist groups (the neo-Nazis in Sum Of All Fears), corrupt industry/US gov’t leaders (like Tomorrow Never Dies or Eraser), or fictional, unnamed, or unspecified “rogue” states.
Why?
'Cuz a buncha wimps in the country will sue over the possibility of someone being mildly offended.
They could just skip to Rainbow Six. The enemy in that is a corporation (I think). Although there’s no Jack Ryan, so Ben Affleck might not be happy.
Debt of Honor might be a tough one to fly by Hollywood producers, due to the fact that in the end
the bad guy flies a commercial airliner into the Capital building during the State of the Union Address.
Could be a bit controversial.
Well, no one will take the idea of Ben Affleck as President (or even Vice President) seriously, I’d say all Jack Ryan books from “Debt of Honor” on are out.
That leaves “Without Remorse.” It’s half “Rambo” and half “Death Wish,” and could make for a very bad but very profitable film, if they got the right actor to play the young Kelly/Clark.
I think the next one they are going to bring to film is the one that is being written right now. It’s a prequel (set before Cardinal Of The Kremlin IIRC) and would fit in perfectly to the whole “new young Jack Ryan” thing.
But of the current books, I think the only one they could possibly do is Rainbow Six. Debt of Honor/Executive Orders will never in a million years be made into movies because of reasons previously mentioned. Hell, they wouldn’t even get written these days.
Well, Cardinal of the Kremlin itself was never filmed. I forget the order of the books, was Cardinal second, or was Patriot Games second and Cardinal third? I suppose the end of the Soviet Union made Cardinal hard to film, if the movies are supposed to be taking place in the present. On the other hand, I think the movie version of The Hunt for Red October was clearly established as taking place in 1984 (when the book was written) even though the movie wasn’t released until 1990. There’s also the second book Clancy wrote, Red Storm Rising, a non-Jack Ryan novel about a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, but I guess that’s even more dated than Cardinal.