Squid Game isn’t the only popular series with a Hungarian connection (details here!). There’s Homeland, which shot several episodes in Budapest, Russian Doll, Witcher, and the forthcoming John Wick spinoff. But it’s the very popular Amazon series Jack Ryan that we look at today.

Jack Ryan — the character — was made famous by late thriller writer Tom Clancy. CIA agent Ryan will no doubt go down as one of literature’s most durable and popular heroes. The series, which has thus far spanned sixteen years, comprises over thirty books, including the blockbuster Hunt for Red October. Ryan’s world of espionage, spies, terrorists, politics, and war have been the mainstay of testosterone-privileged readers since the mid Eighties.

The series draws from the volumes of material Clancy left behind after his death in 2013. Season 3 of Jack Ryan, some of which was shot in Hungary’s Astra Studios, sees actor John Krasinski reprise his role as CIA agent Ryan. Scenes were also shot on location, notably on Budapest’s gorgeous Margit Island, capturing the austere, verdant island in the summer months. Of the locations, co-show-runner Carlton Cuse told locationmanagers.org: “The varied worldwide locations of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan were critical to the storytelling. A great location manager is an essential translator of story into image. We were blessed to have five of them on this project. They worked across the globe to deliver the incredible looks necessary to give the show the critical sense of authenticity. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is as far from a backlot show as possible. It’s a story about Jack Ryan getting out from behind a desk into the world. So we absolutely had to have our actors do the same thing.”

While there is no release date set for Season Three, which will be shown exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, fans and journalists are speculating it will be aired next summer. Super fans, of which there are a lot, will also be pleased to know that Season Four has also been given the green light.

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