I know someone is keeping a list, I just forget where it is.
In April, Amazon is coming out with an adaptation of Without Remorse, a Tom Clancy novel where a man rescues a prostitute from a street gang and events transpire that result in a classic revenge story. In the original, he's Irish. In the Amazon adaptation, he's a black man avenging his pregnant wife.
Oh yeah, a black Kelly/Clark is really believable in his undercover role as a Russian reporter in Debt of Honor.
Actually that's an old joke about an American spy caught in Russia; he begs to know how he slipped up, and the punch line is he's black.
The thing about resetting period books in $Current_Year is that certain things get way less believable.
An old biker once said that Sons of Anarchy was almost accurate, but not anymore. Too many cameras and cellphones anywhere, you can't get away with the stuff the outlaw bikers did back in the bad old days. Same with a lot of Kelly's exploits. You end up having to do a lot of rewriting.
I agree. Stop at the books not actually written by Clancy. Executive Orders is about as deep into the Jack Ryan line I would go. The Bear and the Dragon is a bit of a stretch, but is a decent read; I'm not sure if Tom wrote it.
Because of course. Amazon and Netflix are cancer.
Was Greer (of Jack Ryan) black in the book? Cause they made him black - and a freaking Muslim who screams about holding his 'tasbih' to not freak out about a Frenchman expressing love for his country...
He was black, as I recall, but not a Muslim.
Greer was black in the good movies, played by James Earl Jones.
Mufasa?
Now I've got to watch the movies...
You should watch The Hunt for Red October, at least. It was made by John McTiernan, the same director responsible for Die Hard and Predator.
You forgot to mention Last Action Hero
Of course I've already seen that one. Not Die Hard or Predator though.
But anything with James Earl Jones is worth seeing.
Kiss of the Dragon too.
simp.
Nah, she puts out.
Our brave hero was not killed by the bullets of the gang members, but instead by the quickly progressing syphilis he caught from the woman he saved.
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As a long time Clancy fan, I will NOT be watching this. The Jack Ryan TV show was grating enough, with how woke they went with that. I'm not gonna touch this thing.
So what you're saying is black women are prostitutes.
We don't know if his wife is black, but the prostitute in the book isn't.
"This black man didn't leave when he realised she is pregnant. What a good boy."