Sentences with phrase «clancy novels»

Other movies based on Tom Clancy novels include The Hunt For Red October (Alec Baldwin plays Jack Ryan) and The Sum Of All Fears (Ben Affleck plays Jack Ryan).

This will be the 5th actor to play the character Jack Ryan made famous in the Tom Clancy novels.

This is a decent action film that provides good solid entertainment plus a great big bomb explosion, but it doesn't have the depth of either its predecessors or the Clancy novels.

The dialogue seems borrowed from Tom Clancy novels (which is not a compliment)

The dialogue seems borrowed from Tom Clancy novels (which is not a compliment) and most of the characters are two dimensional (some less than that).

Reading the bible to prove there's a god is like reading a Tom Clancy novel to prove Jack Ryan IS the President of the United States.

Or was that a subplot of that Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six?

This is the first Jack Ryan film not based on a specific Clancy novel.

The film isn't adapted from a particular Tom Clancy novel, and essentially exists as an original story following Jack Ryan (from films like Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears) before he joined the CIA.

While not based on a specific Clancy novel, this latest is a prequel clearly attempting to re-boot the franchise with Chris Pine as Ryan.

It's like reading a Tom Clancy novel — only you're seeing it in metal.

Also, readers can easily adjust the book font size with the press of a button, and the constant connection of the Kindle 3G means just as soon as she is done with her Tom Clancy novel, she can pick up the Millennium Trilogy to see what the fuss is all about.

It's like a Tom Clancy novel given horrid form.

As you would expect from a title based on a best - selling Tom Clancy novel, it specializes in detail, accurately reflecting the design and effects of the latest military technology.

The game was a tactical shooter and was based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name.

Prior to the event, use of an airliner as a weapon was a plot line in a Tom Clancy novel.

Not exact matches

Search Best of History Websites... Search Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline - fueled military novels spawned a new genre of thrillers and made him one of the world's best - known and

Ben Affleck takes over the role of hero CIA agent Jack Ryan in this box office hit based on the best - selling novel by Tom Clancy.

With the sad news of Tom Clancy's death this week comes the comfort of the prolific writer's novels and characters.

The new series will not be based on Clancy's increasingly deranged novel series, but will instead offer «a new contemporary take on the character in his prime as a CIA analyst / operative.»

Jack Ryan, introduced by Clancy his debut novel, The Hunt For Red October, has been memorably played by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin, and less memorably by Ben Affleck and Chris Pine.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

Shadow Recruit turns the clocks back on Ryan in this reboot and is not a direct adaptation of Clancy's novels.

A red band trailer for American Assassin, the hopeful launching pad for a new action franchise in the vein of Tom Clancy (the movie is based on the «Mitch Rapp» novels by Vince Flynn so it is a straight - up Clancy knock - off), has been released and I have not previously paid any attention to this movie, but now I have a series of questions.

While this claim is a bit silly (he's a novelist; coming up with the worst - case scenario is an integral part to his success), the new thriller The Sum of All Fears, based on Clancy's novel of the same name, has a strangely important relevancy in commenting on the state of the world.

Being the first film with Jack Ryan that isn't based on one of Clancy's novels, SHADOW RECRUIT suffers in terms of plot development.

Based on Tom Clancy's 1984 debut novel, it is the first to feature the character of Jack Ryan, ex-Marine turned CIA analyst.

Like the 2014 film, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan will focus on the younger version of the CIA analyst, with the big difference being that the series will have eight hours to help develop the character and get a better look as to why readers have embraced Ryan in Clancy's 24 novels that feature the character.

In order to achieve all this, three of Hollywood's most highly - paid screenwriters (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian and John Milius) successfully curbed Tom Clancy's right - wing prose and focussed on the character of Jack Ryan, who didn't even appear before page 300 or so in the novel.

Goldman's raw material was local lawyer - turned - author David Baldacci's novel, a Washington potboiler several notches below your average Tom Clancy.

Based on spy novel author Tom Clancy's character, a young Jack Ryan helps the CIA uncover a terrorist plot to sabotage the US economy.

Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny Director: Phillip Noyce Screenplay: Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius (Based on the novel by Tom Clancy) Review published December 5, 1996

Tom Clancy's spy novels have produced four prior movies with three different actors appearing as Jack Ryan: Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, and Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears.

Growing up, she had a hard time finding YA books outside of Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine, and instead tackled Tom Clancy or her mom's romance novels.

The reason I eventually tried my hand at fiction was because I got tired of waiting for the next Clancy or Brooks novel to come out so I attempted to write stories that would fill in the gaps between their books.

I constantly read action - adventure novels (Cussler, Clancy, Fleming) and fantasy (Peake, Tolkien, Brooks).

Although you can refine your elevator pitch («It's like if Tom Clancy wrote a zombie novel» is one I've used for the Joe Ledger books, by Jonathan Maberry), that only works if you know a specific book and its appeal well.

In other cases people buy e-books similarly in the same type of fashion as people who are in airports who buy a throwaway pulp novel by Tom Clancy or something, fall asleep on the plane and end up throwing it out.

A masterful novel that combines the exhilarating mysticism of The Da Vinci Code with the pulse - pounding action of a Tom Clancy thriller, James Rollins's Map of Bones is destined to be a modern classic that will stand among the very best adventure tales ever written.

Tom Clancy published his first novel with the Naval Institute Press, a small publisher who had never done fiction.

One reviewer called it one of 2011's «smartest, fastest - moving, and most consistently enjoyable novels,» adding that it was «painstakingly - researched, deftly - plotted roller - coaster of gigabytes and gunplay, a pitch - perfect pastiche of Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy - style techno - thrillers and a comment on contemporary digitality and the ubiquity of online interconnectivity

I find Bidinotto's first novel to be on the same level as authors Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and James Patterson.»

Back in August of 1997, Penguin Putnam had announced a complex new deal with the late Clancy that included a partnership to develop online games as well as the publication of two novels.

Then maybe readers who like Tom Clancy books would like your novel as well.

Although Clancy never wrote down a specific list of rules for writing bestselling novels, he was always helpful when beginning authors turned to him for advice.

If Tom Clancy had written a novel of fallen angels and creatures that go bump in the night, this would be it: blisteringly paced, high - tension suspense, characters you bleed with.»

Charmaine Clancy presents 10 Tips for Creating Classroom Resources to Promote Your Novel posted at dream... write... publish, saying, «If you write children's or YA novels, one of the best places to market those is in the classroom.

Based on a novel of the same title written by the recently deceased author Tom Clancy, a CIA analyst finds himself in over his head in the middle of an international crisis.

The Treasury's October 17th, deadline is quickly approaching and, like the plot of Tom Clancy's novel, the ramifications of failure will have a great impact both politically and economically.

The novel is penned by Raymond Benson, who's previously written Tom Clancy and Metal Gear novels.