I disagree about the material not being popular enough anymore. If you've followed the Jack Ryan universe to the Jack Ryan Jr., you'll know that Clancy was still eerily accurate on predicting things.
And, he didn't just focus his sights on Russia. He covered Japan, China, Latin/South America as well as the middle East.
I think he's got a ton of stuff that would work.
The problem is, as is most always the problem, is that Hollywood doesn't know what the eff they are doing. They don't want to pay money to write good scripts, and they try to portray an analyst - a reluctant hero - as being an American "James Bond", and that doesn't work.
The best Clancy movie is still Red October, and that was suspense filled, not just action-packed. Remember, at the time the movie came out, the Cold War wasn't over for that long. And part of the suspense of the movie was that it took place during the Cold War.
Plus, don't forget an important part of the plot was if Ramius was defecting or going to launch an attack? Do they need to bring him in or stop him?
There were only a couple of real action sequences in the whole movie - yet it was a great movie.
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