Carlton Cuse Offers New Look At Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Jack Ryan Season 2: Daredevil’s Phil Abraham to Direct First Episodes

August 14, 2018

According to Deadline, Amazon has confirmed that they have signed-on Emmy-nominated director Phil Abraham (Mad Men, GLOW, Orange Is The New Black) to direct the first two episodes of their action drama Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan for the series’ season 2. Abraham will also serves as season 2’s executive producer.

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, from Paramount Television and Skydance Television, is a reinvention with a modern sensibility of the famed and lauded Tom Clancy hero played by John Krasinski (A Quiet Place, 13 Hours). The creators of the series, Executive Producers Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Graham Roland (Fringe, Prison Break), will continue to serve as co-showrunners. Additionally, Krasinski, who also serves as an executive producer, will be reunited with Wendell Pierce who will reprise his role as James Greer in the eight-episode second season.

In the first season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Krasinski’s Ryan is an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. The series follows the titular character as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale. The one-hour, eight-episode dramatic season also stars Wendell Pierce (The Wire) as James Greer and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) as Cathy Mueller.

In Season 2, Jack Ryan confronts the forces in power in a dangerous, declining democratic regime in South America. The second season commences production this summer in Europe, South America and the United States. The cast of season 2 will include Michael Kelly as CIA field officer Mike November, Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) as the charming BND agent (German’s Secret Intelligence) Harry Bauman and John Hoogenakker (Colony) as CIA black ops Matice.

The show is produced by Paramount Television, Cuse’s Genre Arts, Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and David Ellison’s Skydance Television. Executive producing along with Cuse, Roland and Krasinski are Platinum Dune’s Bay, Andrew Form (Transformers), and Brad Fuller. Additionally, Lindsey Springer, Mace Neufeld (Patriot Games), Vince Calandra, Andrew Bernstein and Skydance’s Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will also executive produce the second season with Allyson Seeger serving as a co-executive producer.

The first season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will be globally released on August 31, with season two set to premiere in 2019.