‘Patriot Games’ (1992)

The Villain: A violent offshoot of the Irish Republican Army. But mostly Sean Bean.

Who is Jack Ryan? Well, it was supposed to be Baldwin, or so he thought. He wrote in HuffPost in 2011 that he wasn’t in the second instalment because “the studio cut my throat.” According to him, Paramount, the studio behind the film, was simultaneously negotiating with him and Ford and chose the latter largely because he was a bigger box office draw.

Ford’s Ryan was retired from the CIA and teaching at the US Naval Academy. Ryan’s wife was recast as Anne Archer and given a new name — in The Hunt for Red October she was played by Gates McFadden — but his boss stayed the same, with Jones reprising his role as Greer.