'' Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit '' ( 2014 ) is set in a fictional universe apart from the previous four films and the year is 2013 . After the events of the September 11 attacks , Jack Ryan ( Chris Pine ) , studying at the London School of Economics , becomes a Marine second lieutenant in Afghanistan , where he is critically injured when his helicopter is shot down . Twelve years later , Ryan is a covert CIA analyst and is working on Wall Street with a cover job as a compliance officer at a stock brokerage . He quickly discovers that certain accounts are inaccessible to him as auditor , which leads him to Viktor Cherevin ( Kenneth Branagh ) . With Thomas Harper ( Kevin Costner ) , Jack works to stop a plot to collapse the dollar
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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