Patriot Games, then, pressed ahead quickly with a new director ( Dead Calm‘s Phillip Noyce) and a new Mr and Mrs Ryan (Ford and Anne Archer replacing Baldwin and Gates McFadden.
SEAN BEAN PATRIOT GAMES SERIES
More recently, he declared to The Huffington Post that “the studio cut my throat,” allegedly ditching him from the series because “Paramount owed a large sum of money for a greenlit film that fell apart.” Baldwin added that “pushing me aside would help to alleviate that debt and put someone with much greater strength at the box office than mine in the role.”īaldwin didn’t name Harrison Ford, but given that it was Ford who replaced him as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games(and the excellent Clear And Present Danger), it may be fair to assume that’s who he was getting at. Alec Baldwin would follow him out of the exit door.Īt the time, the reason given for a change in Ryan was Baldwin’s commitment to A Streetcar Named Desireon Broadway. McTiernan passed though (and would make the, er, ‘quality challenged’ Medicine Man instead, ironically with Connery) when it was clear that Patriot Games was next. McTiernan was certainly offered Patriot Games, but given his own Irish-American background, he said back in 1999 that he was “a bit uncomfortable with that.” Thus, his own preference for Ryan’s next screen adventure was Clear And Present Danger, for which a script was being put together.
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