George Clooney as Jack Ryan?

CIA agent Jack Ryan just won’t die. The latest thesp linked to the role? George Clooney.

“But totalfilm.com,” we hear you ask in the manner of a Victorian orphan, “doesn’t he get linked to just about every role short of the lead in the Buffy reboot?” And you would be right.

But here’s the thing – this comes from the piece on The Daily Beast about Clooney moving his production company to Sony. The keen-eyed Anne Thompson at Variety dug up a little nugget about Clooney’s apparent interest in the Ryan role.

According to Kim Masters’ piece: “A source says he expressed interest in playing Jack Ryan when and if Paramount attempts to revive the Tom Clancy series.”

And the Ryan series always seems to be in flux as to what exactly is happening: Ryan Gosling has been linked with the role and Sam Raimi had been trying to get it restarted, though he of course is now busy with something else. Spider-thingy? Is that it?

Anyhoo, if Paramount thinks it can get Clooney, chances are it’ll jump at it, but we’re not going to say it’ll ever happen.

He’d make a darn fine Ryan though, wouldn’t he?

Clooney as Ryan? Can you see it? Can you see it even happening?