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1. John Krasinski as Dr. Jack Ryan, a Marine veteran and financial analyst working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), specifically the Terror Finance and Arms Division (T-FAD) under the Counterterrorism Center (CTC); later promoted to head of T-FAD and now temporarily working on Capitol Hill. 1. Krasinski's interpretation of the character is said to be inspired by Harrison Ford's portrayal in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Director and executive producer Daniel Sackheim s...

Development

On Sep­tem­ber 22, 2015, it was an­nounced that Carl­ton Cuse and Gra­ham Roland were de­vel­op­ing a tele­vi­sion se­ries adap­ta­tion of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan se­ries of nov­els. The po­ten­tial se­ries was de­scribed as "a new con­tem­po­rary take on the char­ac­ter using the nov­els as source ma­te­r­ial". Pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies in­volved with the pro­ject were slated to in­clude Para­mount Tele­vi­sion, Plat­inum Dunes and Sky­dance Media. A week later, fol­low­ing a bid­ding war amon...

Casting

On April 29, 2016, it was an­nounced that John Krasin­ski had been cast in the se­ries' title role. On No­vem­ber 3, 2016, it was re­ported that Abbie Cor­nish had been cast as Ryan's love in­ter­est Cathy Mueller. On De­cem­ber 16, 2016, it was an­nounced that Wen­dell Pierce, Ali Suli­man, and Dina Shi­habi had been cast in se­ries reg­u­lar roles. In March 2017, it was an­nounced that Peter Fonda, Mena Mas­soud, Tim­o­thy Hut­ton, and Al Sapienza had been cast in re­cur­ring roles.On June...

Filming

Jack Ryan was filmed in mul­ti­ple lo­ca­tions. On May 10, 2017, Krasin­ski was spot­ted film­ing his scenes in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. For the next sev­eral days the TV se­ries was also shot in Mary­land, Vir­ginia, Que­bec, Lon­don, and Mo­rocco. Some scenes were shot in Paris and Cha­monix, France. The first sea­son fea­tures ap­prox­i­mately 1,000 vi­sual ef­fects shots, in­clud­ing the open­ing bomb­ing run in the pilot episode. Pro­duc­tion for sea­son two began in mid-2018 in Eu­rope, South...

Premiere

On June 16, 2018, the se­ries held its world pre­miere at the 58th An­nual Monte-Carlo Tele­vi­sion Fes­ti­val at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The event in­cluded a screen­ing of the se­ries' pilot episode that was at­tended by cast mem­bers John Krasin­ski, Dina Shi­habi and Wen­dell Pierce, along­side se­ries cre­ators, showrun­ners and ex­ec­u­tive pro­duc­ers Carl­ton Cuse and Gra­ham Roland.

Home media

Para­mount Home Media Dis­tri­b­u­tion re­leased Blu-ray and DVD disc edi­tions of the first sea­son of Jack Ryanon June 4, 2019. The Blu-ray edi­tion in­cludes deleted scenes and Dolby Atmos sur­round sound­track not avail­able when view­ing through Ama­zon Prime.

On Rot­ten Toma­toes it re­ceived an over­all score of 71%, and an over­all score of 64 on Meta­critic.