Tango down! Rainbow Six coming to the big screen . . .

[XMan]

Hell ya.

"The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear & Present Danger", "The Sum of All Fears" - with the Jack Ryan franchise still one of Paramount's strongest film series both critically and financially, it's no surprise that they've decided to expand upon the premise with a spin-off or two.

Variety reports that the studio has tapped scribes Stuart Beattie ("Collateral", "Pirates of the Caribbean") and John Enbom ("Six Shooters") in separate deals to adapt the Tom Clancy novels "Without Remorse" and "Rainbow Six," respectively. Both novels are based around the CIA agent John Clark character, the darker more shadowy character Clancy invented as something of an antithesis to his high and noble hero Jack Ryan.

'Remorse' centers on an ex-Navy SEAL who infiltrates a gang responsible for killing a woman he loved and then taking on a new name and life as John Clark. "Rainbow' has Clark joining with several colleagues to leave the CIA and create an England-based multinational org designed to battle terrorism.

The Clark character has appeared twice on-screen before, portrayed by Willem Dafoe in "Clear and Present Danger" and Liev Schreiber in "The Sum of All Fears". A year ago Paramount acquired rights to Clancy's "Red Rabbit" to be developed as a fifth Jack Ryan movie and signed "Saving Private Ryan" scribe Robert Rodat to adapt. No further information is available on how it's going.

(from www.darkhorizons.com)

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Very cool. I hope they don't suck like sum of all fears

 

[gopunk]

WHOOOOOO i can't wait... i loved the book

 

[yllus]

Ohhhhh yeah. Ding Chavez and John Clark on the big screen baby.

 

[shimsham]

i guarantee it will suck. probably.

 

[XMan]

I like the guy they have who plays Chavez (Raymond Cruz) but they might go with someone more high-profile, I guess. Same will probably apply for Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber - although I thought Liev was a pretty good Clark.

 

[MikeMike]

ill wait 2 days till the reports are still up.

MIKE

 

[Babbles]

I am not sure about how good Rainbow Six would be (I personally think that was the start of the decline of Tom Clancy), however I would really look forward to Without Remorse.

 

[MrBond]

William Dafoe MUST play John Clark in Without Remorse. No one else could bring the anger to the role that it requires. What other hollywood actor would you actually BELIEVE when they torture a man in a hyperbaric chamber?

Rainbow Six should be good, the book was practically a movie as it was. The only problem is we probably won't see many infiltration scenes, because they won't be able to fit them all in and the story at the same time.

 

[yllus]

I hope they truly internationalize the case of R6 as the book described. Loiselle the French pointman, Weber the German sniper, the SEALs and Rangers mixed with the SAS. Please oh please let them make this movie right.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: MrBond
William Dafoe MUST play John Clark in Without Remorse. No one else could bring the anger to the role that it requires. What other hollywood actor would you actually BELIEVE when they torture a man in a hyperbaric chamber?

Rainbow Six should be good, the book was practically a movie as it was. The only problem is we probably won't see many infiltration scenes, because they won't be able to fit them all in and the story at the same time.

Christopher Walken?

 

[MrBond]

Christopher Walken?

Maybe, but Walken makes me laugh usually, I tend to take DaFoe a little more seriously (even after he dressed in drag and open mouth kissed another guy in Boondock Saints, which made me LOL)

 

[Feldenak]

I thought Willem Dafoe was a horrible Clark.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
Very cool. I hope they don't suck like sum of all fears

I actually liked that movie.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: Feldenak
I thought Willem Dafoe was a horrible Clark.

He would be a BEYOND CRAPPY clark in R6... If he is clark in R6, it will ruin the character.

Since R6 is written about the olympics in Sydney a few years back, I wonder if the movie will be the same...

 

[Yossarian]

Without Remorse is the one I've been waiting for, that is my fav Clancy book. Most of his stuff after that was pure crap.

 

[Bulk Beef]

How about Tom Sizemore?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Been waiting for the film version of "Without Remorse". Bad-ass book!

 

[TitanDiddly]

Sweet. I hope they do it justice. :beer:

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: yllus
I hope they truly internationalize the case of R6 as the book described. Loiselle the French pointman, Weber the German sniper, the SEALs and Rangers mixed with the SAS. Please oh please let them make this movie right.

No kidding. And Willem Dafoe is THE Clark. Liev was too boyish and soft.

And, whatever they do, DO NOT MAKE THE PRIMARY ACTORS 20-SOMETHING KIDS!!! In the books, every character was mature, except the kids that are supposed to be kids. And reverting Ryan to bachelorhood and 20-ish was stupid. Sum sucked.

 

[WhiteKnight]

I liked Dafoe's performance he just doesn't fit the physical role of Clark in my mind. I imagine as someone much bulkier than Dafoe but not fat like Sizemore, as someone mentioned.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

They're making a movie out of Red Rabbit? That book sucked.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Not only did "Red Rabbit" suck, it had the most f***ed up geography ever put in a book - makes you wonder if Clancy ever opened a world atlas. Let's face it, Clancy's books have become propaganda a long time ago, and they're less and less readable. Can anyone seriously compare "The Bear and the Dragon", or "Red Rabbit", or the last one (I forgot the name) with "Red Storm" or "Hunt for Red October"? I mean, seriously, I'm not expecting a Nobel prize for literature here, but his recent prose was really "Left Behind"-level... I mean, he's becoming the Sandra Brown of political fiction.

Oh, and for the record, the "Sum of All Fears" movie was really bad. Bad acting, bad conception, bad directing, stupid plot changes... yuck!

 

[sygyzy]

Go Dingo!

 

[DainBramaged]

I am looking forward to both films.