People magazine has reported that Prime Video’s promotional trailer for the upcoming Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War movie has dropped, and the full cinematic experience looks like it will do the series justice. John Krazinski (A Quite Place, IF) returns as a former CIA agent on the big screen, and the trailer reveals the studio spared no expense with huge action scenes playing out over cityscapes and helicopters emptying mounted machine guns into skyscrapers to try and finally put an end to Ryan.
The movie will be available for streaming on Prime Video on May 20th, and Krazinski will be joined by previous series alumni such as Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme) and Michael Kelly (Dawn of the Dead, Man of Steel). They have also announced the addition of Sienna Miller (American Sniper, Burnt), who will play opposite Krazinski as an MI6 officer with whom he joins forces. The official synopsis is as follows:
“Jack Ryan is reluctantly thrust back into the world of espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy, forcing him to confront a rogue black-ops unit, and the clock is ticking,” reads an official synopsis for the movie. “Operating in real time with lives on the line and the threat escalating at every turn, Jack reunites with battle-tested CIA operative Mike November (Kelly, 56) and former CIA boss James Greer (Pierce, 62), their combined experience the only edge they have against an enemy who knows their every move. Backed by an unlikely new partner – razor-sharp MI6 officer Emma Marlowe (Miller, 44) – Jack and the team navigate a treacherous web of betrayal, facing a past they thought was long put to rest – making this the most personal, high-stakes mission any of them have ever faced,”
At the conclusion of the series, Ryan returned to civilian life to enjoy some much-needed downtime. In the movie, a group of rogue ghost actors who were trained by the CIA to operate in the dark has turned their expertise and technology against the agency. Ryan is tapped by the agency to jump back into the action due to his personal knowledge of the situation. The trailer reveals he is reluctant to help, to say the least. The rogue ghost cells are highly trained to predict their targets’ moves, using AI technology to enhance their capabilities; they are constantly a step ahead of Ryan.
This type of technology isn’t just movie magic; it’s real, and it’s being used by the American government as we speak. Small Wars Journal reports how the CIA used AI to map out the “Pattern of Life” data that made it simple to find Nicholas Maduro’s whereabouts. The AI helped to analyze data to find dead zones and black holes created when Maduro and his envoy traveled to try and hide their whereabouts. It also looked for underground utility usage that would coincide with the need for Maduro’s life support infrastructure. Not to mention AI’s role in coordinating automated kinetic-cyber synchronization, which took out the Venezuelan power grid while simultaneously tricking guardrail systems into thinking they were still active. The Pentagon also weaponized AI in Operation Epic Fury to cause power plants in the Middle East, mainly in Tehran, to shut down or cause self-inflicted damage. This essentially blinded the Iranian Regime just as the first wave of American bombers and drones attacked.
It’s clear that the movie will be touching on issues with current technology and what would happen if that technology were manipulated and used against us. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War will premiere on May 20th on Prime Video.