For a marquee pulp-novel character from a bestselling author who has featured in several different hit movies, Jack Ryan has a terrible retention rate for actors. Alec Baldwin, who first played the Tom Clancy-created CIA analyst in the 1990 hit The Hunt for Red October, declined to reprise the role for a sequel, so 1992’s Patriot Games swapped in Harrison Ford, shifting Ryan’s tone and that of the movie around him, though it was technically in continuity with the previous