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Alicia Civita

Michael Kelly and Wendell Pierce Bring Jack Ryan Back as Venezuela Echoes Follow the Franchise Into Ghost War - INTERVIEW

When Michael Kelly first stepped into Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Mike November, the character was stationed in Caracas, operating inside a fictional Venezuela that felt unstable, dangerous, and painfully familiar to many viewers from the region. Years later, as Kelly returns with Wendell Pierce in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, the franchise is arriving at a moment when its old Venezuela storyline feels less like distant television and more like a geopolitical ghost that never left the room.

The new Prime Video film premieres May 20 and brings John Krasinski back as Jack Ryan, alongside Pierce as James Greer, Kelly as Mike November, and Sienna Miller as MI6 officer Emma Marlowe. Ryan is pulled back into espionage after an international covert mission exposes a deadly conspiracy involving a rogue black-ops unit.

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