The Jack Ryan franchise consists of American action-thriller installments, based on the fictional titular character from a series of novels written by Tom Clancy.

In the book series, Patriot Games occurs before The Hunt for Red October, but the order was reversed in the film adaptations.

[5] During 1984, Central Intelligence Agency analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) must track down Red October, a technologically superior Soviet nuclear submarine heading to America's east coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), and prove to the American government his theory that the sub's mission is not to attack the American coast, but to defect.

Naval Academy after previously receiving serious injury while intervening in an attack on the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in London and successfully killing one of the assailants.

Unknown to him, the CIA sends in a secret field-operative to lead an illegal, paramilitary force against the cartels in Colombia with the help of John Clark (Willem Dafoe).

CIA director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman) recruits young analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) and assigns him to the situation in Russia, with the task to determine whether the paranoia is legitimate.

Ryan soon discovers that a neo-nazi terrorist group plans to provoke a war between the U.S. and Russia, by detonating a nuclear bomb at a football game in Baltimore.

After the events of the September 11 attacks, Jack Ryan (Chris Pine), studying at the London School of Economics, becomes a Marine second lieutenant in Afghanistan.

Twelve years later, Ryan is working undercover as a CIA analyst, and posing in a cover job on Wall Street as a compliance officer at a stock-brokerage firm.

[10] In October 2024, it was announced that a feature film follow-up to the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series was in development, with Andrew Bernstein serving as director on the project with a script written by Aaron Rabin.

The studio entered early negotiations with Michael Kelly to also return in his role from the series; while Krasinski, Allyson Seeger, and Andrew Form will produce the movie.