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John Krasinski plays young CIA analyst in new 'Jack Ryan' trailer

By Karen Butler
Actor John Krasinski attends the premiere of "Captain Phillips" in Beverly Hills on September 30, 2013. Amazon released a new trailer for Krasinski's upcoming thriller series "Jack Ryan" Saturday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
1 of 3 | Actor John Krasinski attends the premiere of "Captain Phillips" in Beverly Hills on September 30, 2013. Amazon released a new trailer for Krasinski's upcoming thriller series "Jack Ryan" Saturday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Amazon screened a trailer for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, a new spy thriller series starring John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce and Abbie Cornish, at New York Comic Con Saturday.

The one-hour, eight-episode drama is to debut in 2018. It is executive produced by Carlton Cuse, who also serves as the show-runner.

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"Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is a reinvention of the famed and lauded Tom Clancy hero, a character who has been portrayed in feature films by various Hollywood stars," a press release said, referring to actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. "The series follows an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that throws him into the center of a treacherous stratagem with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale."

  Krasinski, Cornish and Cuse were present when this weekend's 90-second preview was unveiled at the Javits Center in Manhattan.

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