Author Tom Clancy has passed away at the age of 66, after a brief illness. The popular writer wrote such bestselling espionage books as The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears, all of which were adapted into highly-successful movies which feature these series' main protagonist Jack Ryan (which were previously portrayed by Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and Harrison Ford). This January 2014 we'll be expecting the release of the relaunch/reboot of the film series with a brand new Jack Ryan series with "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit", directed by Kenneth Branagh, and with Chris Pine portraying the title character (the film is released in the US December 25, 2013, but since it will conflict with the MMFF, the release of this movie is automatically moved to January 2014). [hit the jump to continue]
Tom Clancy's other novels NetForce and Op-Center, both espionage novels that did not feature the Jack Ryan character, were also adapted into television movies. The novel "Without Remorse" which features the character John Clark (Clancy's second most famous character) is also currently being developed into a movie, with Tom Hardy being considered to portray Clark, and Christopher McQuarrie in talks to helm the movie.
Aside from the numerous other espionage novels, storyline series creations, and even non-fiction books that he wrote, Tom Clancy also co-founded the video game developer Red Storm Entertainment and ever since he has had his name on several of Red Storm's most successful games, which included the Rainbow Six, EndWar, H.A.W.X., Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell, which is also being developed into being a movie.
Clancy was one of only three authors to have sold two million copies on a first printing in the 1990s (the other two being John Grisham and J. K. Rowling). Clancy's 1989 novel Clear and Present Danger sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s. Clancy received an honorary doctorate in humane letters and delivered the commencement address at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992, and has since worked a reference to the school into many of his main works. Clancy was an honorary Yeoman Warder of The Tower of London holding the title "Supernumerary Yeoman" after having been arrested for scaling its walls. On the television show Ace of Cakes his wife commissioned, for his 60th birthday, a special cake in the shape of the Tower of London in acknowledgment of his status. In the episode, Tom Clancy referred to the Beefeaters as, "Just a terrific bunch of guys". Clancy received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement from the Navy League of the United States in 1990.
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