‘jack ryan’: paul scheuring exits as showrunner of amazon series, vaun wilmott to succeed him

EXCLUSIVE_: Prison Break_ creator Paul Scheuring has left _Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan_ less than three months after he joined the Amazon thriller drama series as executive producer and Season 3

showrunner. His No.2, Vaun Wilmott (_Star Trek: Discovery_) will take over day-to-day showrunner duties. Scheuring is primarily known as a screenwriter and TV creator who lives in Northern

California and not as a in-the-trenches showrunner. After giving it a try on _Jack Ryan_, he found it not to be a good fit and asked to e released, sources said. In John Krasinski, _Jack

Ryan_ has a star and executive producer who is also an accomplished writer-director and has been very involved in running the show, including the making of key creative and staffing

decisions. He has now teamed with Wilmott to start work on scripts for the upcoming third season. This is the second showrunner change on_ Jack Ryan_ over the past several months. For the

first two seasons, the action drama was run by Carlton Cuse, who had been the driving creative force behind reviving Paramount’s _Jack Rya_n franchise as a TV series. He stepped back from

day-to-day showrunner duties in March, after wrapping production on Season 2. Cuse was succeeded by David Scarpa who did a brief stint as showrunner before departing. He was replaced by

Scheuring. Two seasons in, _Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan_ remains one of Amazon’s most popular series. Its second season was executive produced by Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Michael Bay, John

Krasinski and Allyson Seeger, along with Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, who created the series for television. Additionally, Andrew Bernstein, Vince Calandra, David Graziano, Tom Clancy,

David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Mace Neufeld, Lindsey Springer, Dennie Gordon and Phil Abraham also executive produce. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is a co-production of Amazon Studios

and Paramount Television Studios and produced by Skydance Television Wilmott created and executive produced the Syfy series _Dominion,_ which ran for two seasons. He was an executive

producer on Scheuring’s _Prison Break_ revival on Fox and most recently served as co-executive producer on CBS All Access_‘ Star Trek: Discovery_. Wilmott is married to Nicole Clemens,

President of _Jack Ryan_ producer Paramount TV.