Paramount Photos’ Rainbow Six film has reportedly discovered its director in Chad Stahelski. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the John Wick filmmaker will helm the live-action function adaptation of the eponymous 1998 spy-thriller novel, which sees Michael B. Jordan reprising his position as Navy SEAL-turned-CIA operative John Clark. The upcoming Rainbow Six movie will primarily function a sequel to Amazon Prime Video’s With out Regret — much like Tom Clancy’s guide chronology. At present, there aren’t any plot particulars or launch window for the Rainbow Six film.
In line with THR, Stahelski may also function a producer on the Rainbow Six movie adaptation, underneath his 87Eleven Leisure banner, alongside Alex Younger and Jason Spitz. The latter can be hooked up to the Ghost of Tsushima film, which is underneath improvement at PlayStation Productions. Each the guide and movie With out Regret functioned as an origin story for Clark (Jordan), through which he uncovers a global conspiracy whereas searching for justice for the homicide of his pregnant spouse. He was then nicknamed “Rainbow Six,” serving as commander of a secret counter-terrorist unit, which in itself was known as Rainbow. The IP (mental property) additionally went on to spawn a line of video video games from Ubisoft, which noticed gamers partaking in tactical team-based missions.
Whereas there is no such thing as a phrase on plot particulars, the Tom Clancy guide abstract notes that the Rainbow group finally ends up unravelling an apocalyptic conspiracy, after dealing with a number of seemingly random terrorist assaults. Stuntman-turned-filmmaker Stahelski got here into the limelight with the Keanu Reeves-led John Wick in 2014, quickly establishing himself as among the many finest up to date motion administrators, by way of subsequent sequels within the sequence. He’s at present hooked up as director to the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4, which is scheduled to launch on March 24, and the long-gestating Highlander reboot, starring Henry Cavill.
Elsewhere within the Tom Clancy live-action universe, Amazon Prime Video’s Jack Ryan sequence is poised to finish after season 4, earlier than which the studio plans so as to add Michael Peña (Ant-Man) on board as Domingo ‘Ding’ Chavez. Experiences recommend that plans for a spin-off sequence based mostly on the sector agent can be within the works at Amazon Studios. The character appeared in a number of Tom Clancy novels, together with the aforementioned Rainbow Six. As for whether or not the sequence will tie into the film to kind an interconnected universe, solely time will inform.
