JOHN WICK Director Chad Stahelski Set to Direct Michael Jordan's RAINBOW SIX Movie
Paramount Picture’s feature film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel Rainbow Six will be directed by John Wick franchise director Chad Stahelski. This is definitely an exciting update for the project, which will star Michael B. Jordan, who is also producing.
Jordan, who also starred in Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, will once again take on the role of Navy SEAL-turned-CIA operative John Clark, who has appeared in the Jack Ryan spy books. Clark was also the main character of the two novels, Without Remorse and Rainbow Six, that ended up getting a video game franchise.
Remorse told Clark’s origin story and it was released on Amazon Prime Video due to the pandemic. Paramount will release rainbow theatrically.
Here’s the book description of Rainbow Six:
Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots” and his “natural narrative gift” (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before.
At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, well known from several of Clancy's novels as a master of secret operational missions. Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face in Rainbow Six.
Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.
Each episode seems separate, discrete, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection? Is he being tested? With the help of his close associates, executive officer Alistair Stanley and strike team leaders Domingo Chavez and Peter Covington, Clark tries to figure out where all this activity is heading, but there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
of sorts and was made during the pandemic. With theatrical releasing in flux, Paramount offloaded the movie to Amazon, where it debuted April 30, 2021. Paramount intends to release Rainbow theatrically, sources say, although final decisions won’t be made until later in the moviemaking process.
Jordan is starring in Rainbow and is producing with Elizabeth Raposo via the duo’s Outlier Society banner. Also producing are Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans via Weed Road Pictures as well as Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec through The Saw Mill.
With Chad Stahelski at the helm of Rainbow Six, it’s sure to be a great and thrilling action movie!