Steve Zaillian Rewriting Paramount's Jack Ryan Reboot

Briefly: Paramount has been working on a revamp of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. Chris Pine is starring, making him the fourth actor in the role after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and Lost's Jack Bender is directing.Hossein Amini wrote a draft, then the studio picked up Adam Cozad's spec script Dubai, which the scribe reworked into a Jack Ryan film called Moscow. He and Anthony Peckham have both done additional work after that Moscow draft came together. Now it looks like Steve Zaillian will do a pass on the draft, and hopefully leave it in shooting shape.

We still don't know too much about the film, and with the rewrites that have taken place it might be safe to assume that a lot of the old info we had on the film is no longer quite valid.

Here's what producer Mace Neufeld said about the film last year:

We pick him up when he's on Wall Street...[but] the Jack Ryan movies have never been action films. They're kind of 'thinking man's thrillers.' Jack is referred to as a 'water-walker' because of his ability to jump ahead to conclusions. That's very big in all the Jack Ryan films and that's how we want to portray him. He's a teacher. He's a historian. He's a linguist. And he's really smart.

Those are the basics, so some of that is probably still in effect. Deadline offers that the story "has to do with a terrifying helicopter crash that nearly killed Ryan when he was a 23-year old platoon leader in the US Marines. He was the only member of the platoon to survive," but that's just a jumping-off point. [Deadline]