Paramount Pictures is in negotiations with Sam Raimi to spearhead a franchise featuring Jack Ryan, the famous CIA analyst created by writer Tom Clancy.
Raimi will be developing and directing a series of movies produced by Josh Donen, his partner at Buckaroo Entertainment and Lorenzo diBonaventura. Paramount Pictures would like to release the first installment in 2010.
Alec Baldwin was the first actor to play Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October in 1990. He was also played by Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Ben Affleck did the most recent portrayal of the agent in The Sum of All Fears. All of these films were box-office smashes.
The studios would like to develop several films, and show Jack Ryan confronted with a global threat at the beginning of his career.
Writer Tom Clancy is writing another novel with the celebrity CIA analyst. Raimi, who is a big fan of Jack Ryan, will start working on this project after completing the horror film, Drag Me To Hell.