A new report at Deadline indicates that the “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” action series, starring John Krasinski as the eponymous CIA analyst, will come to an end with the show’s fourth season.
The series has aired two seasons to date with a third in the can and expected to air this year. The fourth season is currently filming now with a likely debut next year.
However, that may not be all she wrote as producers Amazon Studios, Paramount TV Studios and Skydance TV are reportedly exploring the idea of a potential spinoff series headlined by Michael Pena as Clancy character Domingo ‘Ding’ Chavez.
Pena will be introduced in the final episode of the upcoming third season before going full-time in the fourth season. In the books, Chavez is ex-Army turned CIA and acted as the executive officer of the ‘Rainbow Six’ group. The character has appeared in seven novels from the core Jack Ryan series starting with “Clear and Present Danger”. Raymond Cruz played the role in the Phil Noyce-directed 1994 film adaptation of that novel.
Krasinski had committed to four seasons when he signed on to not just star but executive produce, and the actor/filmmaker has been helping to steer the series in an almost showrunner-style capacity in the latter part of its run.
The third season sees Jack Ryan (Krasinski) on the run after being wrongly implicated in a larger conspiracy and suddenly finds himself a fugitive out in the cold. Forced underground, he’s trying to stay alive and prevent a massive global conflict.
