The Sum of All Fears (film)The Sum of All Fears is a 2. American spythriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. The film, which is set in the Jack Ryan film series, is a reboot taking place in 2. Jack Ryan is portrayed as a younger character by Ben Affleck, in comparison to The Hunt for Red October starring Alec Baldwin, along with the film's subsequent sequels, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, both of which starred Harrison Ford. The film is about a plot by an Austrian Neo- Nazi to trigger a nuclear war between the United States and Russia, so that he can establish a fascist superstate in Europe. Book now at Waterside Restaurant and Catering in North Bergen, explore menu, see photos and read 348 reviews: "I was at the waterside 2 weeks in a row. Both times I. Home Politics Obama’s NSA Intel Gathering on Trump, Aides ‘Tremendous Abuse of the System’ Obama’s NSA Intel Gathering on Trump, Aides ‘Tremendous Abuse of.
After the Neo- Nazi's scientists build a secret nuclear weapon that destroys Baltimore and a rogue Russian officer paid off by the Neo- Nazi attacks a U. S. aircraft carrier, the world's superpowers are pushed close to the brink of all- out war. CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Affleck) is the only person who realizes that the Baltimore bomb was a black market weapon, not a Russian one. With the clock ticking, Ryan has to find a way to stop the impending nuclear war. The film was a co- production between the motion picture studios of Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, MFP Munich Film Partners, and S. O. A. F. Productions. On June 4, 2. 00. Elektra Records music label. The soundtrack was composed and orchestrated by musician Jerry Goldsmith. The Sum of All Fears premiered in theaters in the United States on May 3. Its worldwide theatrical run ended with a total of $1. Considering its production budget of $6. Despite this, the film received generally mixed reviews from critics.[3]In 1. Yom Kippur War, an Israeli A- 4 Skyhawk jet carrying a nuclear weapon is shot down; 2. Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field in the Golan Heights. He sells it to a South African black market arms trafficker named Olson, who recognizes it as the nuclear bomb that was lost during the war. He then sells it to a far- right group led by Austrian billionaire and neo- Nazi Richard Dressler. Dressler's aim is to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both, and leave a united Fascist Europe to rule the world. CIA analyst Jack Ryan is summoned by CIA Director William Cabot to accompany him to Russia to meet President Nemerov. In Moscow, Cabot and Ryan are allowed to examine a Russian nuclear weapons facility as prescribed by the START treaty, where Ryan notices the absence of three scientists listed on the facility's roster. Cabot sends operative John Clark to Russia to investigate. Clark tracks the missing scientists to a former Soviet military facility in Ukraine, where Cabot suspects they are building a secret nuclear weapon that Russia could use without any way to trace it back to them. Ryan and his colleagues discern that a crate from the facility in Ukraine was flown to the Canary Islands, then sent to Baltimore on a cargo ship. Ryan warns Cabot, who is attending a football game in Baltimore with the President, about a bomb threat. The President is evacuated before the bomb detonates, but the city is destroyed. To escalate the situation, a corrupt Russian Air Force general who has been paid by Dressler sends Tu- 2. M Backfires to attack a U. S. aircraft carrier in the North Sea. Ryan learns from the radiation assessment team that the isotopic signature from the nuclear blast pinpoints it as having been manufactured at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina in 1. Russians. In Syria, Clark tracks down Ghazi, one of the men who found the bomb, now dying of radiation exposure. He tells Clark that he sold the bomb to Olson, who lives in Damascus. Ryan's colleagues at Langley infiltrate Olson's computer and download files that implicate Dressler as the person who bought the plutonium and who is behind the Baltimore attack. Ryan is able to reach the National Military Command Center in The Pentagon and get a message to Nemerov, saying that he knows that Russia was not behind the attack, while also asking Nemerov to stand down his forces as a show of good faith. Nemerov agrees to do so as President Fowler follows suit. The participants in the conspiracy, including Dressler, are assassinated. Presidents Fowler and Nemerov announce new measures to counter nuclear proliferation in joint speeches at the White House, as Ryan and his fiancee Dr. Catherine Muller listen in. Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan. Morgan Freeman as William Cabot, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bridget Moynahan as Dr. Catherine "Cathy" Muller. James Cromwell as J. Robert Fowler, President of the United States. Liev Schreiber as John Clark. Michael Byrne as Anatoly Grushkov/Spinnaker, senior advisor to President Nemerov. Colm Feore as Olson. Alan Bates as Richard Dressler. Ron Rifkin as Sidney Owens, Secretary of State. Ciarán Hinds as Alexander Nemerov, President of the Russian Federation. Bruce Mc. Gill as Gene Revell, National Security Advisor. Richard Marner as President Zorkin, President of the Russian Federation prior to Nemerov. Philip Baker Hall as David Becker, Secretary of Defense. Josef Sommer as Senator Jessup. Ken Jenkins as Admiral Pollack. Philip Akin as General Wilkes. John Beasley as General Lasseter, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lee Garlington as Mary Pat Foley, CIAJoel Bissonnette as Mason, Dressler's American contact. Sven- Ole Thorsen as Haft, Dressler's hitman. Aleksandr Belyavsky as Admiral Ivanov. Lev Prygunov as General Saratkin. Yevgeni Lazarev as General Dubinin. Gregory Hlady as Milinov. Production[edit]Development[edit]After the release of Clear and Present Danger in 1. Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin before the material was deemed too difficult to adapt resulting in producer Mace Neufeld purchasing the rights to Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.[4] In October 1. Harrison Ford announced that the next Jack Ryan novel being scripted into a film would indeed be The Sum of All Fears and that "hopefully we'll get that to a place where we can make a movie."[5] During this time, writer Akiva Goldsman wrote multiple drafts of the script.[6] However, on June 8, 2. Ford dropped out of the film after he and director Phillip Noyce were unable to work out script problems.[7] It was later announced that Ben Affleck would take on the role in a $1. Jack Ryan portrayed at an earlier stage in life. The day I received the offer to play Jack Ryan, I was filming a Pearl Harbor scene with Alec Baldwin. He was very sweet and said I should do it," said Affleck. I wouldn't have done the movie without talking to Harrison Ford first. He gave me his blessing. That's what I needed to hear."[8] Months after Affleck became attached to the project, director Phil Alden Robinson was brought on to helm the project.[9]While the basic plot was the same, there were significant changes from the book. Noting these substantial changes, in the commentary track on the DVD release, Tom Clancy jokingly introduced himself as "the author of the book that he [director Phil Alden Robinson, who is present with Clancy] ignored."Perhaps the largest change were the original terrorists. In the novel, they were Arab nationalists, but in the film, they were changed to neo- fascists. A common misconception is that this was done as a reaction to the September 1. However, the movie finished filming in June 2. On the "making- of" DVD extra, director Alden Robinson said that it was purely for elements relating to the plot, as Arab terrorists would not be able to plausibly accomplish all that was necessary for the story to work. In addition, the terrorists in the book received significant aid from elements in East Germany, a country which had ceased to exist before the novel was even published. The group Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) did mount a two- year lobbying campaign that ended on January 2. Muslim villains", as the original book version did.[1. Olympic Stadium in Montreal, where the football game scenes were filmed. Screenwriter Dan Pyne claimed that the decision to not use Arab terrorists was "possibly because that has become a cliché. At the time that I started writing The Sum of All Fears, Joerg Haider was just starting to come into play in Austria. And simultaneous with that, I think, there was some neo- nationalist activity in Holland, and there was stuff going on in Spain and in Italy. So it seemed like a logical and lasting idea that would be universal."[1. It has also been noted that a larger percent of profits stems from international audiences, and American filmmakers work to avoid alienating large segments of this customer base.[1. Filming[edit]Principal photography for The Sum of All Fears began on February 1. Montreal, Quebec.[1. A majority of the film was shot in Montreal, including the sequences at the football game that were shot in the city's Olympic Stadium.[1. Additional filming was done at the Diefenbunker in Ottawa, Ontario.[1. Production wrapped in June 2. The interior scene of the aircraft carrier was filmed on a set used in the TV series JAG.[1. The musical score to The Sum of All Fears is composed by Jerry Goldsmith. A soundtrack album was released on June 4, 2. Elektra Records.[1. In addition to Goldsmith's score, the soundtrack also includes source music such as "If We Get Through This" by Tabitha Fair and "Nessun dorma" by Giacomo Puccini. There are also two tracks from the album ("If We Could Remember" and "The Mission") that are vocal interpretations of Goldsmith's primary theme co- written by singer- songwriter. Paul Williams.[1. On March 1. 2, 2. La- La Land Records.[1. If We Could Remember"3: 3. The Mission"5: 5. The Bomb"2: 5. 54."That Went Well"2: 4. Clear the Stadium"1: 3. If We Get Through This"3: 3. The Deal"2: 3. 48."Changes"2: 2. Snap Count"2: 1. 21. His Name Is Olson"1: 5. Nessun Dorma from Turandot"2: 5. Deserted Lab"1: 5. Real Time"2: 5. 11. How Close?"6: 0. 51. The Same Air"2: 0. If We Could Remember (Reprise)"3: 3. Total length: 4. 9: 3. The Mission"5: 5. Do It!/I'll Go/The Bomb"4: 3. JFK | American Experience | Official Site. Deputy Director, CIA (archival audio): This is a result of the photography taken Sunday, sir. There's a medium- range ballistic missile launch site and two new military encampments. John F. Kennedy (archival audio): How far advanced is this? CIA Analyst (archival): Sir, we've never seen this kind of installation before. Narrator: Only a few people knew of the existence of the surveillance photographs, much less the terrifying revelations they held. In October 1. 96. Soviet Union was constructing nuclear launch sites in Cuba, within range of every major city on the Eastern seaboard - - including the U. S. Capitol. Evan Thomas, Writer: It's hard to realize how frightened they were. They had conversations about evacuating great parts of the United States. They had estimates about how many tens of millions of people would die. They really thought that war was near. Narrator: Managing this crisis fell to a rookie president: John F. Kennedy. He was less than two years on the job, the youngest man ever elected to the office. Thomas Hughes, Aide to Sen. Hubert Humphery: Nothing prepared him for this. The things that got him elected - - the acute politician, the charming vote getter, the- the money, the glamour - - none of it had any bearing at all on his situation. Narrator: The qualities that had carried John Kennedy to the presidency - - natural rebelliousness, stubborn self- reliance, spectacular self- confidence - - had also led him to make mistakes and missteps that helped put the country in mortal danger. His predecessor in the White House, Dwight Eisenhower, had called him "Little Boy Blue" and thought his wealthy father had bought him the office. The Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, had taken Kennedy's measure at their first meeting a year earlier and he walked away believing he could get the better of the untested president. If John F. Kennedy doubted himself, or quailed at the enormity of the situation, he didn't show it. Evan Thomas, Writer: He had a very great ability to step back, to be cool, to be detached, to not get sucked in by the passions of the moment, to not just ride the wave. Michael Dobbs, Writer: When he became angry, he tended to become very calm. There was a kind of burning anger in him that he didn't express very openly. Timothy Naftali, Historian: This man was fiercely independent, intellectually independent. Fiercely. Kennedy had an unshakable sense of his own skills. He was confident about his ability to come up with the right answer. He wasn't bringing people together in a room to hammer out a consensus. He was bringing people in a room to give him the best information so that he could make the decision. Sally Bedell- Smith, Writer: He had what he called the "great man" theory of governing. As a consequence, it put a lot of pressure on him. Narrator: Now, at a moment of peril and uncertainty, he would be forced to answer the question that had dogged him his entire career: Was he as tough, as smart, as capable as he appeared? John F. Kennedy (archival): Good evening my fellow citizens. Within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive.. John F. Kennedy (archival audio): Mrs. Lincoln.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1. I was the descendent of three generations on both sides of my family of men who had followed the political profession. In my early life, comma, the conversation was nearly always about politics. Period. Narrator: By the time he came of age, John Fitzgerald Kennedy inhabited a world of special exemption: the family estate in suburban New York, the summer compound in Hyannis Port, the winter retreat in Palm Beach. The story of his family's heroic multi- generational rise from the want of Irish famine might well have been a misty old folktale. The past was not the point in the Kennedy household. Jack's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was one of the wealthiest men in America: an Irish- Catholic businessman who had grabbed his fortune in the WASP- dominated world of high finance, and then became a celebrated administrator in President Franklin Roosevelt's momentous New Deal government. Joe Kennedy expected his sons in particular to have a large effect on the world. Robert Dallek, Historian: He's a model of what they're taught to emulate. He's striving. He's reaching. He's always on the move. He's accomplishing. And it was expected of them to do the same thing. Evan Thomas, Writer: They were very pampered and enabled. They were made to feel special, which is good, and they were special, and they were made to feel obliged to serve their country; that was great. But they were also given a kind of confidence that it would always go well for them. Robert Dallek, Historian: After the stock market crash occurred in 1. John Kennedy didn't know that there was all this privation in the country. He never wanted for a meal. And it wasn't until he read something later in high school and college about the Depression that it registered on his consciousness. Narrator: Even in the raucous Kennedy clan - - even among his eight brothers and sisters - - Jack stood out. He kept his own schedule - - usually late. He was apt to test the patience of his elders, unconcerned with rules, and loose with money. He plied shopkeepers with the promise that his father would pay the bill, whatever it was. Robert Dallek, Historian: Jack would expect maids to take care of him, cook his meals, do his laundry, pick up his clothes. And so he has a very privileged childhood, except for one thing: that he is burdened by a series of considerable health problems. Narrator: Jack almost died of scarlet fever in 1. Two years later, a case of whooping cough landed him in another quarantine ward. Soon after his parents shipped him off to a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, Jack's letters home began to include reports of his shaky health. At Choate, Jack's ongoing digestive ailments made him a reliable customer of the campus infirmary. David Nasaw, Historian: Jack didn't know what was wrong with him. All he knew was that on a regular basis he would take sick, get a high fever, end up in the hospital, that he couldn't gain weight, that he couldn't run around and play sports the way he wanted to. Robert Caro, Historian: He was terribly thin. He had recurrent bouts of nausea and vomiting, continual bouts of high fever, and he was tired all the time. Robert Dallek, Historian: Joe Sr. Jack might take on the image of someone who lacked the physical strength to achieve great things in life. By the time he was 1. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to try and figure out what his problems were. Narrator: Test results at Mayo indicated that Jack suffered from an intestinal inflammation called colitis. But the doctors warned him that he might have hepatitis, or worse, leukemia. When his blood count dropped to near- fatal readings, he made light: "they call me '2. Kennedy,'" he wrote a friend, "took a peek at my chart yesterday and could see that they were mentally measuring me for a coffin."Robert Caro, Historian: He never stops joking and laughing, even in the worst circumstances. When the wife of his headmaster at Choate comes to visit him she says, "Jack never stopped kidding around with me the whole time I was there."Sally Bedell- Smith, Writer: He had to become very stoic, and at the same time he had to project an image of vitality. So although he was feeling poorly a lot of the time, he couldn't let on that he was feeling poorly. Narrator: Joe Sr. Don't let me lose confidence in you again," Joe wrote to Jack after a less- than- sterling report from the headmaster at Choate, "because it will be… nearly an impossible task to restore it."Robert Dallek, Historian: Joe Kennedy, Sr., drives this point home to his sons. Joe Kennedy's message to them is: Second is never good enough. Only first. Only winning. Only being at the top. Evan Thomas, Writer: Joe Jr. You're going to be President," and Joe was determined to please Dad, and was going to do whatever Dad wanted. He was a familiar type: student body president, captain of teams, best- looking boy, destined for success. Jack was one step away. Yes, he wanted to please Dad, but he might think about it for a second. And there stirred in him a little quiet, and maybe even more than quiet, rebellion. David Nasaw, Historian: The problem with Jack, at least for his father, is he doesn't take anything seriously. Nothing. At Choate, where there is a strict prep school behavioral code, where the last thing you do is snicker or make fun of your teachers or talk behind their backs, Jack just can't help himself. The more pompous the headmaster, the more ridiculous the speeches at chapel, the more he feels absolutely compelled not only to make fun himself but to draw his circle of friends in. When he organizes a prank, all the other boys are in. Narrator: Jack Kennedy was a capable student in the courses he liked, indifferent to those he didn't. His acquaintance with the rules of spelling and grammar appeared fleeting. He spent much of his depleted energy on campus high- jinks.. Even in high school, his roster of conquest was a source of wonderment. It can't be my good looks," he wrote to a Choate friend, "because I'm not much handsomer than anybody else. It must be my personality."When Jack announced his decision to join his prep- school friends at Princeton instead of following Joe Jr. Harvard, his father made his disappointment known: "You want to get away from your brother, I take it. Too much competition."Fall term 1. Jack enrolled at Harvard. Evan Thomas, Writer: The Kennedys were a loving family but bitterly competitive. This comes from the father, but it becomes entrenched in them. They were always putting each other down - - verbally, games, sailing, touch football - - nonstop competition. And a lot of it's joyous but there's an edge there too, almost a meanness. Narrator: Where Joe Jr.
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