The film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse” is not due out until late October, but recently producer Akiva Goldsman offered an update on how the project is progressing in the COVID-19 age.
The film sees Michael B. Jordan taking on the role of John Clark, a man you could call the more sinister counterpart to Clancy’s most famous hero Jack Ryan in terms of his methods and execution.
Clark is a CIA operative who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and led two of Clancy’s novels, while Willem Dafoe and Liev Schrieber played the character onscreen before in two of the Jack Ryan films.
The new film is in post-production at present and Goldsman tells Collider that things are going fine:
“We are in complex, corona’d post. So, the director is in Italy, the editor is in Germany, we are [in the USA] in various places, and we Skype together, and we work on the movie together, and then we see cuts.
So we are in the editorial phase, and we’ve actually been doing it all week this week in the mornings, for time zones, and it’s going really far better than it should, considering where we all are.
Michael B. Jordan is so extraordinary, and the object is very singular in that way. It’s kind of a delivery system for this performance. I like it, I think you’ll like it.”
‘Remorse’ serves as an origin story for how John Clark, a then young Navy SEAL on the path to avenge his wife’s murder, came to work for the CIA. “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” director Stefano Sollima and writer Taylor Sheridan re-team for this adaptation which also stars Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Scott, Luke Mitchell, Todd Lasance and Jacob Scipio.
“Without Remorse” is currently targeting an October 2nd release.
