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Will this movie succeed or flop; can Tom Cruise pull it off?

I don’t know if you have ever of heard of British novelist Lee child’s character Jack Reacher. To me he is an interesting character. He is very none materialistic, he does not even own a change of clothes. He has an excellent mind for problem solving mind but is intimidated the complexities of the washing machine, he buys new clothes throws away his old. I have read some of the comment too, this is my favorite: BenTramer, There is no good news here at all. I'd rather they not make the movie at all than see Tom Cruise try to be Jack Reacher. They might as well have gotten Carrot Top to play him. At least he'd be closer to the right height.

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The good news: a film based on one of the great Jack Reacher books by Lee Child is really going to happen, after years and years of development on various titles in the series that will number 16 novels when The Affair is released this fall. The bad news (perhaps): Jack Reacher, written as a six and a half-foot, sandy-haired slab of a man, will definitely be played by Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie‘s One Shot.
This is a confirmation of word that came down a months ago. Paramount has had Christopher McQuarrie developing One Shot since this time last year; he wrote the latest draft of the script and will direct. And now Cruise, who starred in the McQuarrie-penned Valkyrie, is going to step into Reacher’s massive shoes and disposable clothes.

(One of the more idiosyncratic habits of the character, a former star in the military police who wanders the US as a way to connect with his country after living most of his life overseas, is buying and throwing out one set of cheap clothes rather than washing them. This is a guy who doesn’t like to be tied down.)

One Shot is a thriller in which a sniper guns down five people seemingly at random downtown in a midwestern city. The gunman is captured and asks the cops to find ex-MP Jack Reacher, who finds that there is a lot more going on than first appears to be the case.

As was obvious last time I covered this casting possibility, I hate the idea. I think Tom Cruise is wrong for the character in many different ways. The physical difference between he and the version of Jack Reacher on the page is something I can dismiss; it’s a question of the actor being able to capture and develop the character’s quiet capability and confidence. Reacher is a far cry from the brash and brazen Cruise.

But this is happening, so that’s the last I’ll say about it. Even with the issues in casting I’m excited at the idea of seeing a Reacher project being made top priority at a studio. If the movie is good, that’ll be the only important thing in the long run.

One Shot will go before cameras later this year in Pittsburgh, and then Cruise will jump to Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion. The recap of the novel is below. [Deadline]

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter—a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right—and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.

Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning—and then beat him shot for shot.

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I expect an awful movie that is a catastrophic flop. Great books, could be a great movie...but Tom Cruise, in addition to being a shrimp, a full FOOT shorter than Reacher, simply has no talent. Reacher should have been played by Hugh Jackman (Wolverine from the X-Men movies). Right size, right build, even the right age.

Cruise can be a good actor but most of the time he's in crap movies.

Most Cruise movies are so geared to making him look good, they lose their reason for being made.

most of the stuff he's in is overhyped summer blockbuster trash. Looking for outstanding performances in that stuff is like looking for Lo to take personal responsibility.

Bazinga!

Cruise was excellent in Tropic Thunder...

With the exception of Risky Business, I haven't seen him in naything I thought he was good in (although I will admit his performance didn't ruin Born on the 4th of July, but didn't help it all that much either). His hamminess could supply a chain of delis.

I can't remember the name (I think it was collateral) Cruise was excellent in. He acted better than the movie.

The Reacher books make for good entertainment, but is it a good thing there is no real world Reacher ; his tendency to play judge, jury and executioner would eventually result in the deaths of innocent people . Most people tend to think that their judgment is infallible and usually it isn’t but their ego want let them see it.

I'm not a big Cruise fan, but I really like A Few Good Men....(Of course Jack Nicholson was far and away the best thing going in that flick)

I thought Cruise was okay in The Last Samurai, and he didn't stink as badly as I expected in Valkyrie.....

(But then, given the weightiness of the role and the light weight of the actor, I was expecting a pretty big stink...He didn't stink bad enough to cause gales of inappropriate laughter or get the audience to cheer when Von Stauffenberg was executed....)

I have a hard time thinking of any movie I've seen Cruise in where I probably wouldn't have liked Keanu Reeves or even Brad Pitt better....

I just watched the trailer and based on that I would say Tom Cruise was a mistake. I really liked him in The Last Samurai (beautiful and impressive job by Cruise), Collateral, and Knight and Day wasn't bad mainly due to Cameron Diaz.

Hugh Jackman definitely a good choice. I would have also like to have seen Viggo Mortensen . Robin Williams has done some really dark characters in the past and I think he might have been a good possibility.

That was so unbelievably trite and awful, I cannot believe it was based on a good book! (By an Englishman? Was he taking the piss or what?)

The sort of movie which only spotty skinny adolescent males with barely dropped bollocks, could like.

StyleThe Reacher novels are written either in the first-person or third-person. Child says writing in the first person is more natural for him, but writing in the third person gives him more freedom when building up suspense.

So far in the series, Killing Floor, Persuader, The Enemy, Gone Tomorrow and The Affair are in the first person narrative. Die Trying, Tripwire, Running Blind/The Visitor, Echo Burning, Without Fail, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, 61 Hours and Worth Dying For are in the third person.

[edit] List of novels/ AppearancesJack Reacher can be found in the following books by Lee Child:

1.Killing Floor (March 1997)
2.Die Trying (July 1998)
3.Tripwire (June 1999)
4.Running Blind (published as The Visitor in the UK and Australia) (April 2000)
5.Echo Burning (ISBN 0-515-13331-0) (April 2001)
6.Without Fail (April 2002)
7.Persuader (April 2003)
8.The Enemy (Prequel, time frame occurs before Killing Floor) (April 2004)
9.One Shot (ISBN 0-385-33668-3) (April 2005)
10.The Hard Way (ISBN 0-385-33669-1) (May 2006)
11.Bad Luck and Trouble (ISBN 0-385-34055-9) (April 2007)
12.Nothing to Lose (ISBN 978-0593057025) (March 2008)
13.Gone Tomorrow (April 2009)
14.61 Hours (March 2010)
15.Worth Dying For (September 2010)
16.Second Son, a Kindle exclusive short story (August 2011)
17.The Affair (27 September 2011) Prequel to Killing Floor
18.Deep Down, a Kindle exclusive short story (16 July 2012)
19.A Wanted Man (11 September 2012)
He can also be seen in the short story "James Penney's New Identity" from Fresh Blood 3 (Oct 1999, ISBN 978-1-899344-52-9), a compilation of short mystery stories edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski, although Reacher is not the protagonist in the story and appears only briefly. Reacher is also mentioned several times in the Stephen King's novel Under the Dome.

[edit] Killing FloorPlot
After hopping off a Greyhound bus to pursue a whim (finding out what happened to a musician, "Blind Blake"). Reacher is arrested and charged with murder. After an attempt on his life while being held over the weekend in a state prison, Reacher is determined to figure out what happened. Later he finds out that the person he was framed for murdering was Joe Reacher, his brother. Unknowingly, Jack Reacher had stumbled into one of the biggest counterfeiting schemes in the United States. Subsequently, he takes on the vicious and ruthless butchers of a well established town gang operating a massive counterfeit notes racket. This novel is set in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia.
[edit] Die TryingPlot
While helping Holly Johnson, an attractive young woman struggling with her crutches on a Chicago street, they turn around only to discover two handguns pointing at them. Reacher and the woman are thrown into a dark van and taken 2000 miles across America, completely unaware why they were kidnapped and where they are going. Finding themselves trapped in a seemingly remote place, they must work together to find the answers.
[edit] TripwirePlot
Hanging around in Key West, digging pools by hand and moonlighting as a bouncer for a topless bar, Reacher finds himself wanted in New York by a Mrs. Jacob. She turns out to be the divorced wealthy attorney Jodie Garber, daughter of General Leon Garber, Reacher's mentor and surrogate father in the Army. Jodie hired an investigator to find Reacher because her father was dying. Jack and Jodie begin investigating her father's last project, a search on behalf of the elderly parents of their military MIA son. They soon find themselves hunted by a psychopath businessman and military criminal crippled in the Vietnam War, who has a shadowy business and other secrets to protect. Reacher inherits a house and a steady girlfriend, and contemplates the joys of sedentary life.
[edit] Running Blind[edit] The Visitor (UK and Australia)Plot
It's tough being a high-flying woman in the Army. Very tough. When Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook are found dead in their own homes—in baths filled with Army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked—Jack Reacher is under suspicion. He knew them both—and he knows that they both left the Army under dubious circumstances, both victims of sexual harassment. A former U.S. military policeman, a loner and a drifter, he matches the psychological profile prepared by the FBI, and is arrested by ambitious Special Agent Julia Lamarr. But when the body of another woman, Sergeant Lorraine Stanley, is discovered, killed with similar precision, Reacher is released. Everyone fears there is a serial killer on the loose. But the FBI know something in Reacher's past and have strong persuasive powers. Before long Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the murder investigation. He has to find out what these women have in common and why someone is out to do them harm.
[edit] Echo BurningPlot
Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you're lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She's alone, driving a Cadillac. She's beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn't kill her first. Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen's remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile, the cops can't be trusted and the lawyers won't help.
[edit] Without FailPlot
Reacher arrives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after hitching a ride with a couple of aging musicians. He is accosted there by Mary Ellen (M. E.) Froelich, a beautiful secret service agent who managed to track him down. She has a special request for him: she consults him on how he could kill the Vice-President; countering those methods would help her considerably in her job: protecting the Vice-President. He accepts the challenge, and enlists old colleague Frances Neagley to help carry out the mission. Froelich asked Reacher's assistance on this matter because of suspicious and threatening letters which had been sent to the Vice-President but instead intercepted by his protective team. Together, they attempt to find the ones responsible.
[edit] PersuaderPlot
Walking along the street, Reacher sees Quinn, a man who should be dead. Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and Francis Xavier Quinn got away with murder. Now a chance encounter outside Boston's Symphony Hall brings it all back. And Reacher sees his one last shot to finish what was started all those years ago.
[edit] The EnemyPlot
On New Year's Day, 1990, in a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. Within minutes, Reacher is ordered to contain the situation. But things soon escalate when Reacher discovers the general's briefcase is missing and within hours, the general's wife is killed. Reacher soon finds himself embroiled in a complex game of tug of war between powerful men in the United States Army, and beyond.
[edit] One ShotPlot
In an innocent heartland city, five murders with six shots are done by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest a suspect, and build a slam-dunk case with iron-clad evidence. But the accused man claims he's innocent and says "Get Jack Reacher.". Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense is immensely relieved; but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused's request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man's guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for.
[edit] The Hard WayPlot
After witnessing an exchange of $1,000,000. Jack Reacher is hired by the underhanded director of a private military firm to rescue his wife and stepchild, who appear to have been kidnapped. While Reacher uncovers clues that might lead to a rescue, he learns about the director's dubious past which involves a murderous plot against two ex-associates.He meets a beautiful ex-FBI agent converted to private investigator who assists him in the investigation to unveil the shocking truth, and ultimately engages in a showdown on a farm in Norfolk,England. The novel is set primarily in New York City.
[edit] Bad Luck and TroublePlot
Reacher has no address, no phone and only the clothes on his back with an ATM card. He's content with his choice of being a loner, a wanderer and almost impossible to find. But someone makes a small anonymous deposit into his bank account, which triggers Reacher's fixation for math and his investigative instincts. Reacher finds out the deposit is a signal only the eight former members of his elite team of army investigators would know. Obsessed with math like Reacher, Frances Neagley locates him because of the brutal death of a one of their own. They race to reunite with the survivors of their old team and raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that grows more complex with more murders. With tortured murders and lives at stake of those Reacher considers family, his usual emotionless demeanor breaks and he says of the killers, "They are dead men walking." The team falls into their old roles and routines with ease, their motto still their sacred rule: You do not mess with the Special Investigators. From Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Reacher gets his old investigations unit back together to get to the bottom of what's going on.
[edit] Nothing to LosePlot
Based in Colorado, travelling from the town of Hope to the town of Despair, it soon becomes clear that Reacher is an unwelcome visitor in a town with a lot of secrets to hide. Reacher cannot resist the opportunity to explore the town's secrets further, especially the peculiar town owner who has employed the majority of the population to work within his recycling factory.
[edit] Gone TomorrowPlot
Reacher takes the subway late at night, and routinely checks his fellow passengers. Four are okay, but the fifth is not. Checking against his mental list for suicide bombers, he comes to the conclusion that the fifth is one too. He is puzzled with her choice of timing and place, as it is not crowded; on the contrary the subway was exceedingly empty. He reasons with her, but she shoots herself; thereby proving Reacher wrong when he concluded she was a bomber. He is determined to discover why she killed herself and soon uncovers a massive conspiracy stretching from California to New York City to even Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation of that country.
[edit] 61 HoursPlot
The 14th book of the Jack Reacher saga. In South Dakota, a tourist bus crashes during a savage snow storm with Jack Reacher in it. Jack gets caught up in a hunt for a murderer and the protection of a key witness. Meanwhile, a link to Reacher's past comes to his aid and brings a path to redemption.
[edit] Worth Dying ForPlot
Jack Reacher arrives late one night in a rural Nebraska town. In the town's fading motel bar he overhears a drunk doctor's refusal to attend a domestic abuse. The victim of the abuse is married to the scion of the Duncan clan, which holds that part of Nebraska in its grip, keeping the population cowed and docile. Reacher talks the doctor into doing the right thing, and ends up embroiled in a smuggling ring and an unsolved disappearance from twenty-five years prior.
Worth Dying For was published on 30 September 2010 in the UK[10] and on 19 October 2010 in the USA.[11]

[edit] Second SonPlot
The short story "Second Son" is a snapshot of the life of Reacher and his family circa 1974, while they're stationed on a military base in Okinawa. Upon arriving they immediately get into deep trouble that's compounded by some bad news. The action is interspersed with contemplative moments, such as when Jack's grandfather, a prosthetic-limb maker in Paris, recounts that "… a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves."
[edit] The AffairPlot
March 1997. Six months before the events of Killing Floor. Jack Reacher is still in the army. And there's big trouble in a small town in Mississippi, where a soldier's girlfriend is found with her throat cut from ear to ear. Local trouble? Or is the killer from nearby Fort Kelham, a giant base used by elite Army Rangers? In 1997, Reacher's orders are: go undercover, keep your distance, monitor the investigation. Eventually the army's official investigation produces a cast-iron prime suspect—and so does Reacher's undercover search. But Reacher's answer is not the same as the army's. If he keeps quiet, will he be able to live with himself? And if he speaks out, will the army be able to live with him?
[edit] Deep DownPlot
Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for U.S. forces. But vital details about the weapon are leaking—straight from the Capitol and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers. The prospect of any and every terrorist, mercenary, or dictator’s militia getting their hands on the latest superior firepower is unthinkable. That’s where Reacher comes in. His task: infiltrate the top-secret proceedings and smoke out the mole. His target: a quartet of high-powered Army political liaison officers—all of them fast-track women on their way to the top.
According to his bosses, it’s a zero-danger mission. No need to draw a gun . . . just chat over drinks. But Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem. And he’s learned the hard way never to underestimate an opponent. Or four. Lessons that will come in handy when he starts digging for the truth—and gets his hands a lot dirtier than he expected.
58 Pages (Kindle Edition only)

[edit] A Wanted ManPlot
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.
All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat—to both sides at once.
[edit] CameoReacher makes an off-stage cameo in Stephen King's 2009 novel Under the Dome. Chester's Mills police officer Jackie Wettington is revealed to have previously served as a military policewoman in Germany, and she is recommended to Colonel Cox by Jack Reacher, whom Cox describes as "the toughest goddam Army cop that ever served, in my humble opinion."

[edit] In other mediaMain article: Jack Reacher (film)
Paramount Pictures hired Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson to adapt One Shot, the ninth book in the series. Christopher McQuarrie, Oscar-winning screenwriter for The Usual Suspects, was then brought in to re-write Olson's draft.[12] It was announced in July 2011 that Tom Cruise would play Reacher in the movie adaptation of One Shot. Lee Child was quoted as saying, "Reacher’s size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way."[13]

[edit] ScheduleThe schedule for the Reacher series, previously one-per-year, was stepped up with 61 Hours and Worth Dying For both released in 2010. Lee Child was twice approached by Guildrose/Ian Fleming Publications to continue the James Bond novels but has turned down the offers.

[edit] See also Novels portal
Lee Child
Military brat
[edit] External linksAuthor Lee Child's Official website
Jack Reacher Official US website
Official Publisher UK website
[edit] Notes1.^ "Author Lee Child - Jack Reacher facts - YouTube". youtube.com. 2012 [last update]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPhkk5VqC4. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
2.^ Nothing To Lose, Ch. 10, p. 43, "Reacher was no kind of a sprinter. As any kind of a runner, he was pretty slow. His best attempt at speed was barely faster than a quick walk."
3.^ Die Trying, p. 2-3, "He had served thirteen years in the Army, and the only time he was wounded it wasn't with a bullet. It was with a fragment of a Marine sergeant's jawbone."
4.^ Gone Tomorrow
5.^ Persuader
6.^ tripwire
7.^ The Enemy
8.^ Without Fail, Ch. 11, "He was a Marine," he (Reacher) said. "Korea and Vietnam. Very compartmentalized guy. Gentle, shy, sweet, loving man, but a stone-cold killer, too. Harder than a nail. Next to him I look like Liberace."
9.^ Without Fail, Ch. 11, "He was OK. But he was a freak. No room for people like him anymore."
10.^ "Worth Dying For (Hardcover)". Amazon.co.uk. 8 June 2010. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 9845865-21. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
11.^ "Worth Dying For (Hardcover)". Amazon.com. 8 June 2010. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 6041987-20. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
12.^ McWeeny, Drew (20 October 2010). "Why hasn't Paramount started making Jack Reacher movies?". HitFix. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-capt ... her-movies. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
13.^ Fleming, Mike (15 July 2011). "Tom Cruise Locked To Play Jack Reacher In 'One Shot' For Paramount And Skydance". Deadline. http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/tom-cru ... -skydance/. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
[edit] ReferencesLee Child (1999). Die Trying. New York: Jove. ISBN 0-515-12502-4.
Lee Child (2004). The Enemy. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-385-33667-5.
Lee Child (2002). Without Fail. New York: Putnam. ISBN 0-399-14861-2.
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In the books I feels the violence is overdone but I like the mystery included and the fact the Reacher is as much into thinking as action. However, Child’s doesn’t rank that high as one of my authors, but generally the language is acceptable; he doesn’t us the word GD.
I actually prefer these authors:

Gean M. Auel
Sara BIRD
Nathaniel Philbrick
Elizabeth Burg
Homer Hickam
Elizabeth Phillips