David Koepp Will Rewrite Paramount’s New Untitled JACK RYAN Movie

Scribe David Koepp (Spider-Man, Angels & Demons) was hired to rework MEN IN BLACK III script and now he’s rewriting another blockbuster script for another studio…

Deadline said Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production have hired Koepp (the dude gets paid 7-figured!!) to rewrite the untitled new JACK RYAN script by Adam Cozad.
Jack Bender is still set to direct and Chris Pine is still set to star as the new young Jack Ryan.

Last month, due to script delay, Paramount decided to get Pine to do STAR TREK 2 first. Oscar winning scribe Steve Zaillian who adapted 1994′s Clear and Present Danger was hired to rewrite the script but turns out, he changed his mind and withdrew.

Keep in mind that this is somewhat of a mix of prequel and reboot, it’s not based on any of Tom Clancy‘s novels. It’s an origin story by Hossein Amini and then Adam Cozad redrafted it using his elements from his spec script, DUBAI that was bought by Paramount and then Anthony Peckham was hired to rework it, and then Cozad was brought back again, at the time, the project was titled MOSCOW.  The story “has to do with a terrifying helicopter crash that nearly killed Ryan when he was a 23-year old platoon leader in the US Marines. He was the only member of the platoon to survive.”