Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' Series Is Jumping to the Big Screen Instead of a 5th Season

Editor's note: This article contains "Jack Ryan" Season 4 spoilers. 

Fans who didn't enjoy the underwhelming ending to Amazon's "Jack Ryan" television series are in luck: The series is on its way to a web redemption, with both John Krasinski and Wendell Pierce signing on to reprise their roles for a feature-length film.

In the fourth and final season of Amazon's hit series, Ryan (Krasinski) embarked on the greatest mission of his career in the role of acting deputy director of the CIA under the new agency director, Elizabeth Wright (Betty Gabriel, "Get Out"). When the president of Nigeria was murdered, all signs pointed to an unauthorized CIA operation. As the plot unraveled, they discovered the previous director created a consolidated drug cartel-terror group called "The Triad," along with a web of political corruption that allowed the criminal group to thrive.

Krasinski has already signed on to return, as has Wendell Pierce, who plays the equally important James Greer. Michael Kelly ("House of Cards") is reportedly still in talks to reprise the role of Mike November.

The bulk of disappointment in the show's final season lay in the fact that there's clearly more of Jack Ryan's story to tell, but no Season 5 was forthcoming. Fans of the series and the character need not have worried, as Ryan appears in some 36 books in author Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" series; considering the success of the Ryan-verse films and television shows, a new installment was just a matter of time.

Fans of the Amazon series were largely disappointed by the pacing of the series, stretching out the story to fill a series-long arc. It doesn't take long to find out the myriad things diehard fans didn't like. The great part about making a feature film to close out the series is that any holes in the plot of the final season can be wrapped up in the right amount of runtime. Season 4 writer Aaron Rabin has signed on to write the film, and Andrew Bernstein, the director of Season 2 (a fan favorite), is set to direct.

Krasinski first took on the role of Clancy's celebrated CIA analyst-turned-operative in 2018. He was the fifth actor to portray Ryan, after Alec Baldwin ("The Hunt for Red October"), Harrison Ford ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger"), Ben Affleck ("The Sum of All Fears") and Chris Pine ("Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit").

Clancy never got to see Krasinski take the role, having died in 2013. Until 2010, Clancy wrote the "Jack Ryan" books, but three of those books were co-written by authors Grant Blackwood and Mark Greaney. After Clancy's death, Blackwood, Greaney and authors Mike Maden, Marc Cameron, Don Bentley, Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson continued the series and the character. In the books, Ryan starts his career as a CIA analyst and naval historian and eventually becomes president of the United States.

So yeah, there's a lot more "Jack Ryan" to come.

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