Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games

Alec Baldwin first played CIA analyst Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990), but the actor didn’t return for the 1992 sequel Patriot Games.

Instead, Harrison Ford was brought on to portray the action hero in the film and its 1994 follow-up Clear and Present Danger.

Baldwin reportedly left the role after he was forced to choose between Patriot Games and the broadway play A Streetcar Named Desire, while the studio was said to have jumped at the chance to get Ford to play Jack Ryan.