Tom Clancy movie question...

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of all Fears -- are they all supposed to be connected? I'm just curious because the first three to go in order, and then there is "Sum." Is that one supposed to be a prequel or something? I have some other questions, but I'll reserve them until I get an answer for this...

[Vern Gagne]

I don't think the story itself is a prequel, but Jack Ryan in the movie kind of is, since he's so much younger than he was in the other movies.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Well, the thing is Jack Ryan had a wife and kids in the first three movies, now he's a 20-30 something with no baggage. So is Sum of All Fears a film all by itself with some guy named Jack or what?...

[Black Lushus]

it's all the same guy, Jack Ryan...SOAF is just a story that took place in his younger days...

[kkktookmybabyaway]

So, in the Hunt for Red October, the U.S. was afraid of a USSR nuclear sub, but yet according to this history, Baltimore was already blown to bits...

[Black Lushus]

yes, the filmmakers messed up chronologically...they patterned SOAF after modern day events disregarding that HFRO dealt with communist Soviet Union issues...

[Conspiracy_Victim]

Accoring to the timeline in the books, The Hunt for Red October comes before Patriot Games (IIRC). Sum of All Fears comes several years later. They just changed Ryan to an analyst for the movie since Affleck is obviously younger than Ford and Baldwin.

[Black Lushus]

lame...they coulda just got Ford back or another top level actor in his lates 40s/50s...

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Also, in the Sum of All Fears, was the Soviet Union dissolved or was it still in a "super power" state?...