People Like Us will be available to purchase or rent on DVD, Blu-Ray and Video OnDemand tomorrow!

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Deadline can now confirm the cast for this long gestating, highly anticipated action thriller that will be the first of an anticipated franchise trilogy. It resurrects the popular Tom Clancy character of CIA analyst Jack Ryan last seen on film in 2002 and now played by Chris Pine in the role already made famous by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. After various starts and stops, bad luck and good fortune, Deadline also has learned that Jack Ryan finally has come together for a release in the 4th quarter of 2013.

Paramount chose to wait for Pine to complete the second installment of Star Trek in this contemporized original prequel story that picks up Ryan before he joined the CIA. (Paramount long ago locked in Pine after he played Captain Kirk.) His love interest and the female lead is Keira Knightley. Paramount was intensely searching because it’s a high profile role — an older version of the character was played by Anne Archer in the Harrison Ford films — and involves options that would potentially put the actress in three pictures.

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They begin filming the next film in Jack Ryan series beginning August 31st! Thanks to my good friend Holly, and fellow Pine-Nut for the tip!

Kevin Costner has accepted the role of the mentor to Jack Ryan, played by Chris Pine, in the upcoming prequel and reboot of the CIA analyst franchise (previous films include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games), reports Deadline.com. Kenneth Branagh is directing, and also stars as the film’s main bad guy in a script co-written by author Tom Clancy. A deal in the works also brings Costner in on the Jack Ryan spinoff Without Remorse.

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Paramount didn’t have to look far for the villain in its untitled Jack Ryan reboot, as the studio is in negotiations with Kenneth Branagh — who’s also directing the film — to star opposite Chris Pine in the action thriller that aims to reinvigorate the blockbuster franchise.
Paramount had no comment on the casting.

Pine’s Jack Ryan is an ex-Marine who works as a successful financial analyst in Moscow. He discovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy, and must race against time to save America and his wife.

Branagh is making a deal to play the Russian villain, who with the help of the local government, masterminds a plot to destroy America’s economy by making the dollar worthless.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with Mace Neufeld and David Barron. David Ellison, whose Skydance Prods. banner is co-financing the film, will exec produce the pic, which is based on the Jack Ryan character created by author Tom Clancy.

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You can check out the interview in full over at TimeoutChicago.com

Director Alex Kurtzman said that with People Like Us he wanted to make a smaller character-driven film, the kind of story that inspired him to write in the first place, as opposed to the successes he and his writing partner Roberto Orci have had with Star Trek and Transformers. You’ve also become known for bigger movies. Was a smaller character film an appeal for you as well?
Absolutely. It’s nice when a film deals with human beings talking to one another or not talking to one another—the primary dysfunction of this family is that they don’t talk—and it’s nice to talk about what people are saying or not saying versus, well, should I run to the left or should I run to the right? As much as I like making those bigger action-driven films, it is much nicer when—I mean, this was an enjoyable experience because I hadn’t really had it on a film before, where you come to set and you really just talk about where these people are and where they’re coming from, where they’re going.

As opposed to “hit your mark”?
Well, a lot of times with those bigger films, you’re at the mercy of set pieces or an action sequence, and in this the story is really the dynamics between these people, so you’re not building towards anything other than a revelation.

Michelle Pfeiffer, who plays your mother in People Like Us, said of the film, “They don’t make a lot of movies like this anymore.” Are you finding that to be the case?
The $30-to-$40-million dramas aren’t really made anymore. What they’re making are really cheap comedies and found-footage films on the lower end and then $150 million on the big end. That large swath of stuff in the middle has disappeared [from] the studio system. Right after There Will Be Blood wins the Oscar, Paramount Vantage, the small production company within Paramount, shuts down. So just because people are making quality films, if it’s not bringing in the money for these corporate behemoths for whom we work, there’s a bottom line.