Screenwriter Hossein Amini has a job to attempt a new Jack Ryan movie for Paramount Pictures. Ryans character was last seen on the screen in 2002 -The Sum of All Fears.

Amini holds the accolades for his literary adaptations of Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Elmore Leonard.  The Ryan project will originate from the Tom Clancy novels; but more or less an original story of a new and younger version of Ryan.