What's the Difference between The Sum of All Fears the Book and The Sum of All Fears the Movie?
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In the Movie |
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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In the Movie |
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Cathy Ryan becomes pregnant with a second daughter, Katie. |
This doesn't happen. |
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This doesn't happen. |
There is an ongoing war in Chechnya, where Russian atrocities have caught the eye of the US government.
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President Fowler believes war has begun after terrorists posing as Soviet soldiers invade western Berlin. |
President Fowler believes war has begun after a corrupt Russian sea captain attacks a US naval aircraft carrier. |
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The START Treaty likely does not exist in the book, as it was signed less than a month before the book's publication. |
Ryan and Clark inspect a Russian nuclear weapons facility as prescribed by the START Treaty.
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John Clark never meets the man who originally discovered the bomb; he does, however, meet and arrest the people who retrieved the bomb from the farm. |
John Clark tracks down and meets with the man who originally discovered the bomb in order to find the terrorists. |