John Wick director Chad Stahelski enlists in Rainbow Six starring Michael B. Jordan
Stahleski will presumably bring the obligatory gunplay to the series that launched an onslaught of first-person shooters
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Michael B. Jordan is ready for another tour of duty. After surviving the 2021 revenge rampage Without Remorse, Jordan’s character John Clark will have to learn to be part of a team. The next movie in Jordan’s ClanceyVerse is Tom Clancey’s Rainbow Six, and it’s got a director equipped to helm a film about a one-man wrecking crew forced to work with others: John Wick’s Chad Stahelski.
Last seen playing himself in The Matrix Resurrections, Stahelski will direct Rainbow Six. Stahelski, a stunt coordinator turned director who helmed the first three Wick chapters and the upcoming John Wick 4, is in high demand these days. He’s still apparently making the Highlander reboot, starring Henry Cavill, who suddenly has a free schedule, an adaptation of the video game Ghost Of Tsushima, and an adaptation of the Black Samurai novels for Netflix. Meanwhile, he will have to teach Michael B. Jordan to say, “fookin’ laser sights,” just right.
Though before Rainbox Six was a video game series that you might remember from sixth-grade sleepovers, LAN parties, or Steam (the first one came out in 1998 and hasn’t slowed down since), it was a book. Jordan’s character John Clark appears as the protagonist of Without Remorse and Clancey’s Rainbow Six novel. Clark, a special ops fixer, also appeared in several Clancy adaptations, including two Jack Ryan movies, portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Clear And Present Danger and Liev Schrieber in The Sum Of All Fears.
Released in April 2021, Without Remorse served as an origin story for the character in case anyone wondered how one becomes a killer “without remorse.” How else? Assassins killed his wife and unborn child. The movie debuted on Amazon Prime due to the uncertainty regarding movie theaters. However, per Hollywood Reporter, Paramount plans on releasing Rainbox Six theatrically.
All this makes sense. Without Remorse was nothing if not a chance to turn a Tom Clancey movie into a John Wick. As we noted in our review, “The movie’s attempts at ruthless pulp manipulation don’t land; cruelly offing a character whose entire personality is “pregnant” is a cheap bid for John Wick stakes.” We’ll see if this sequel lives up to the talents of its star.
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The first one was…fine? I barely remember it other than it was violent.
Yeah I’ll end up watching this.
I know that AVClub didn’t have an editor, but two Rainbox instead of Rainbow. Not only those two letter far away in any keyboard setting, every autocorrect in your phone will automatically type Rainbow.
“Not only those two letter far away in any keyboard setting”
I mean, I get mocking terrible writing, but the W and the X are very fucking close to one another. There’s literally a single key between them.
Repeatedly spelling Tom Clancy’s name incorrectly is pretty amusing as well.
I am reasonably certain that while John Clark was a character in novels before the R6 video games, that R6 as a franchise proper started as a video game before the novels.
According to Wikipedia, the video game was released 2 weeks after the book.
Wikipedia also says that Tom Clancy was working on the idea at the same time that Red Storm’s founder was talking to him about the idea of a tactical shooter. So I guess they kicked off more or less simultaneously from conception to initial release.
A similar situation to 2001: A Space Odyssey which was conceived alongside the film.
I’m assuming Rainbow 6 is yet another insidious attempt by the woke mafia to spread the gay agenda. Also, Gay Agenda by Shamir is a fuckin’ bangin’ baller of a tune.
Actually, in the book, the villains are radical liberal terrorists funded by shadow organizations run by billionaires.It was total Rush Limbaugh/Alex Jones.
Tom Clancy was very conservative but rainbow in the title and a black actor playing John Clark? woke mob strikes again
I’m so glad Clancy died before he had a chance to go full maga and really embarrass himself.
Hope it’s better than Without Remorse was. Jordan was fine, and I’m always happy to see Jodie Turner-Smith. But the quality of the movie itself was like watching some Straight-to-VHS action shit from the 80’s again.
If it follows the book as closely as “Without Remorse,” this’ll be a hockey flick.
I completely forgot about Without Remorse, but a Rainbow Six movie/series will have to be much better than Clancy’s mediocre novel. On TV Strike Back has done clandestine military ops very well, SEAL Team not so well.
This headline makes no fucking sense