What's the Difference between The Sum of All Fears the Book and The Sum of All Fears the Movie?
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Jack Ryan
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Jack Ryan
Portrayed by: Ben Affleck
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The Sum of All Fears Book vs Movie
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President Fowler suffers a nervous breakdown and his Vice-President temporarily assumes command at the end of the novel. |
President Fowler remains a strong leader at the end of the novel. |
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Ryan bugs a meeting between the leaders of Mexico and Japan after hearing Japan does not plan to honor the terms of a US-Japan trade agreement. This is to foreshadow events in the next novel, Debt of Honor. |
Neither Japan nor Mexico play a part in the novel. As of December 2015 there is no Debt of Honor film.
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The Arab terrorists are beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Ryan witnesses their death and is given the sword used for that purpose. This event inspires Ryan's future Secret Service nickname of SWORDSMAN. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Ryan is an outsider to the President's security team because he is not a political appointee and because much of the President's cabinet dislike him. |
Ryan is an outsider to the President's security team because he is too junior to even be on their radar.
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Due to events which happened in the 1970s in the book Without Remorse, the man known as John Clark is really John Kelly, who had faked his own death and lives under a pseudonym. |
Given that John Clark was likely a child during the 1970s, there is no indication that John Clark is not his real name. |