Chris Pine has signed to play Tom Clancy's signature hero Jack Ryan in a prequel reportedly entitled Moscow.

Jack Ryan hasn't been seen since Ben Affleck buried him in 2002's dud The Sum of All Fears. Now with Jason Bourne and James Bond both in suspended animation, plans are gestating to re-introduce the brainy unsecret agent-like CIA analyst to audiences.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirms Star Trek's Chris Pine has signed to play Tom Clancy's signature hero, portrayed by Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October and by Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and A Clear and Present Danger.

"We're trying to get off the ground with Chris Pine. We have a pretty cool script. It's an original story."

Reportedly, the project is entitled Moscow and, if you hadn't guessed already, transplants Ryan to Russia. So far no director is onboard, but di Bonaventura doubts it will be Phillip Noyce, who helmed the Ford-led sequels and just directed Angelina Jolie in the spy thriller Salt. "I think (Noyce) has served his time. I think he wants to do other things."

And if the Pine-led prequel doesn't work out? Jolie's co-star Liev Schreiber says he would eagerly enlist in the Clancy franchise.

"I would love to do the Jack Ryan series, I would love to do that. I played the other one -- I played (CIA assassin) John Clark -- in The Sum of All Fears, but I think Clancy writes it really well. It's still popcorny, but he gets the duality of it. The best liars are the ones who believe their own lies. And the only people that's really true for are secret agents and actors. And adulterers."

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