Posted by Susannah at user-38lde60.dialup.mindspring.com on May 16, 2003 at 16:27:21:
In Reply to: The Sum of All Fears... posted by Scary Monkey on May 16, 2003 at 16:05:55:
because the book was written as the last in the Jack Ryan series, with Ryan retiring - NOT in his 20s. I was so thoroughly confused when I saw the trailers with Ben Affleck playing Ryan, not that he didn't do a good job - but what would have been wrong with the plot the way it was written? Too many variables with the personal subplots to make the movie anything less than Titanic-sized?
: is a prequel for all those other Jack Ryan movies, just with a kookie time twist thing.