Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher? Kill me now...

[Tiger Wench]

That's it - time to take that sawed off little motherfucker OUT.   Jack Reacher is the only man I would leave my husband for... and seeing his studliness pussied away by Tom Crazy Man Cruise is my idea of a nightmare. 

This would be like Rosie O'Donnell playing some hot porn star... DOES NOT COMPUTE!!!
 

Tom Cruise May Be Jack Reacher in ‘One Shot,’ And That Seems Like a Terrible Idea
Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2011
by Russ Fischer

I know that I have always been very publicly in favor of novel to film adaptations that throw out the notion of extreme fidelity to the source. So I don’t really have a leg to stand on in this argument. But if you’re casting Jack Reacher, a French/American ex-military cop who stands 6’5″ and often breezes into any given burg looking like a giant disheveled blond bum, then Tom Cruise is the opposite of the man you should be looking for. And yet that’s what could happen.

Can’t say I’m surprised, though. Several of Lee Child‘s Jack Reacher novels have been optioned, and all have taken their sweet time to the screen in large part because finding the real Jack Reacher is a difficult task. In the novels, almost all of which fall distinctly above the ‘average’ line for pulp thrillers and many of which are damn good, Reacher is written as slightly unbelievable. So casting dis difficult. (The Rock is often mentioned. Also  )  But Christopher McQuarrie‘s adaptation of One Shot, which is set up at Paramount, could be the first to hit the screen, in part because of the writer/director’s relationship with Tom Cruise.

Deadline reports that Cruise is in talks for the part, and that he was part of the option process years ago. It isn’t even his stature that makes him wrong for the part; it is that the common mode in which Tom Cruise works, the very personality that his defined his career as a movie star, is exactly the opposite of what this character is. You don’t hire Tom Cruise to play a hulking but patient and sensitive man who overcomes enemies with quiet confidence backed up with intellect and force.

One Shot is part detective story, part thriller, part action tale. There’s a heavy police procedural aspect to the book, as Reacher and a young lawyer investigate a cluster of murders committed by a sniper one afternoon in a mid-sized Indiana town. It’s easy to get too focused on Reacher’s size, especially as Lee Child writes with that physical factor firmly in mind. Part of his utter lack of fear of most adversaries is due to the fact that they’re no physical match for him. But the flipside is a big deal — when someone comes around who does seem dangerous, it is because they might be smarter and more bloodthirsty. And that makes the villains actually a bit imposing.

Going back to my opening, I’ll quote a tweet from the esteemed Jeremy Smith of AICN, who said: “No reason to be unfaithful with those books. They’re ready-made movies. Just require a little streamlining.” That’s it exactly. The movie quality of the Reacher books is no doubt part of their appeal. You can see them play out perfectly as the pages turn. (Which isn’t to say the print versions are unsatisfying.) The notion of changing anything outside of a few nips and tucks and allowing a few minor cosmetic changes to Reacher is alien to these stories. And to us faithful Reacher fans!

But with Tom Cruise as a motivating factor for the project’s development at Paramount, and given his history with Christopher McQuarrie, who helped the first stage of his pseudo-comeback with Valkyrie, this may be inevitable. The question will be when One Shot might shoot: before or after Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion. The plan is to shoot before Oblivion, with much of the shoot taking place in Pittsburgh, but that could change.

[GarMan]

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[AUJarhead]

I hate Rosie O'Donnell, but if somebody said "I got a tape of Rosie O'Donnell getting fucked stupid," I'd be like "Why the fuck aren't we watching that right now?"

[Aubie16]

Holy shit what a bad idea.

Tom Cruise doesn't fit a SINGLE part of Reacher. Not his looks, not his personality, nothing. I won't even see the movie if this goes through. I really don't have anything else to add because the article covered everything wrong with this. What an idiotic idea. 

[Godfather]

They should cast Dolph Lundgren

[Tiger Wench]

Holy shit what a bad idea.

Tom Cruise doesn't fit a SINGLE part of Reacher. Not his looks, not his personality, nothing. I won't even see the movie if this goes through. I really don't have anything else to add because the article covered everything wrong with this. What an idiotic idea.

You are officially my favorite person today. 

THANK YOU for realizing what a fucked up decision it would be for Tom Cruise to attempt to be Reacher... I personally like Daniel Craig or Kevin McKidd for the role (Yes, I know McKidd is redheaded, but he has the brooding personality, the physique, and is handsome without being too "MOVIESTAR" - the hair color is immaterial, really, as long as you get the rest of it right) 

I also plan to boycott the movie if it happens this way.

[Godfather]

You are officially my favorite person today. 

THANK YOU for realizing what a fucked up decision it would be for Tom Cruise to attempt to be Reacher... I personally like Daniel Craig or Kevin McKidd for the role (Yes, I know McKidd is redheaded, but he has the brooding personality, the physique, and is handsome without being too "MOVIESTAR" - the hair color is immaterial, really, as long as you get the rest of it right) 

I also plan to boycott the movie if it happens this way.

What about McConaghadoobiewow sounds like him?

[GarMan]

What about McConaghadoobiewow sounds like him? 

Damn it!  I can't find that spoof of him mindlessly babbling and mumbling. 

[Tiger Wench]

What about McConaghadoobiewow sounds like him?

You OBVIOUSLY have never read a Reacher novel.  Doobie Bongo would be about as perfect as Tom Cruise, which is to say, no fucking way.

[Saniflush]

You know Jack is about ten years my senior but I could pull it off.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Remember the Matt Damon rugby movie Invictus?  Damon was playing one of the greatest rugby players of all time Francois Pienaar.  Pienaar is 6'3" and 240 lbs.  Damon was not.

[Aubie16]

Remember the Matt Damon rugby movie Invictus?  Damon was playing one of the greatest rugby players of all time Francois Pienaar.  Pienaar is 6'3" and 240 lbs.  Damon was not.

This really isn't about physical attributes. Its just their demeanor. Completely different. Reacher is the quiet and pensive but one of those guys that you definitely listen up when he talks. Cruise has no presence like that. It's hard to understand without reading the books.

[AUTiger1]

I hate Rosie O'Donnell, but if somebody said "I got a tape of Rosie O'Donnell getting effed stupid," I'd be like "Why the eff aren't we watching that right now?"

This has went unnoticed.....you people are slipping!

[Saniflush]

This has went unnoticed.....you people are slipping!

I think the possibility of Cruise playing this part was more disturbing than you realize.

[AUTiger1]

I think the possibility of Cruise playing this part was more disturbing than you realize.

I think you may be right, although, both could as equally bad.....Rosie in a porno.....

[Tiger Wench]

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This really isn't about physical attributes. Its just their demeanor. Completely different. Reacher is the quiet and pensive but one of those guys that you definitely listen up when he talks. Cruise has no presence like that. It's hard to understand without reading the books.

I think the possibility of Cruise playing this part was more disturbing than you realize.

This x 100000000000.  Reacher is as real to me as any fictional character can be - I have an image of him in my mind, and the first thing I think of is "HUGE".

Reacher is unobtrusive for a big man.  His quiet demeanor and lack of "flash" sends the message that he is harmless, and does not pose a threat to anyone - except for someone looking for a fight.  Then Reacher's physical attributes are the best weapon he has.  Lee Child plays up this hulking brute attribute to the point that it is an integral part of most story lines.  How Reacher can take a beating but because of his superior conditioning and brute strength, he can still find the means to keep on fighting.  In one book, Reacher drowns a bad guy because he, Reacher, is able to use sheer strength to hold the bad guy under water even as the guy is hitting him to try and escape.  NO WAY does a shrimpy pipsqueak like Tom Cruise pull that off

[Tiger Wench]

You know Jack is about ten years my senior but I could pull it off.

Put on about 75 lbs of hard core muscle and I might agree...

 

[Tiger Wench]

Oh my lord.  THis unholy nightmare has come true.  Cruise as Reacher in One Shot.  He may play a former MP who helps solve a set-up, but the sawed off little fuck is NOT Jack Reacher.

Guess I will not be seeing One Shot.

This is AWFUL.

[Aubie16]

Hey TW:



 

[Godfather]

Tom Cruise is Ghey, with a capital G.