And he has only the haziest of relationships outside of the military. He likes to listen to “music” late at night, but the film never bothers to specify what kind. Kelly is driven by revenge after Russians murder his pregnant wife Pam, played by Lauren London (she’s killed by a marauding horde of Baltimore pimps and drug dealers in the original book) but the relationship feels more symbolic than anything real. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Brett Gelman, Lauren London, Colman Domingo, Guy Pearce Written by: Taylor Sheridan and Will Staples (screenplay) Tom Clancy (book) His character, John Kelly (who later becomes John Clark), has in the past been played by Willem Dafoe ( Clear and Present Danger, 1994) and Liev Schreiber ( The Sum of All Fears, 2002) and is featured in the popular video game series Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. Jordan, who also serves as a producer - feels a bit fresher.Īfter explosive turns as a brash underdog boxer in 2015’s Creed and its 2018 sequel as well as the rage-driven Killmonger in that year’s Black Panther, it seems well past time to give the onetime Friday Night Lights and The Wire actor the keys to his own military hardware-laden franchise. But while the milieu may feel as mildewed as your Grandpa’s favorite paperback (Clancy got paid a then-record $14 million for the book when it was published 1993), the film’s other chief reason for existence - as a platform to show off the action hero bone fides of the film’s star Michael B.

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy