

While Child has slowly backed away from the series (he announced in January of 2020 that he would retire from the series), the novels will reportedly continue under the authorship of his younger brother Andrew Grant.

The "Jack Reacher" novels, however, have continued apace, with the most recent volume having been published in October of 2021. The lackluster critical and audience response to the sequel effectively ended the "Jack Reacher" film series. It was enough to inspire a more expensive, but less well-received sequel in 2016 called "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back," directed by Edward Zwick. Tom Cruise played Reacher in two movies, in 20, but he drew criticism from fans of the books for being a fraction of the size of the 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound character described by Child. After a relatively pint-sized Tom Cruise alternately. This one probably wont be considered much of a reach (sorry). Ritchson takes over the role from Tom Cruise, who played the former military policeman turned wandering crime disrupter in two movies, 2012's Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back in 2016.
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Jack Reacher is, in Child's words, an unstoppable force - he was once in the military police corps - and few movie stars are better at playing "unstoppable steely determination" than Cruise.ĭespite what the fans of Child's novels may have felt, the first "Jack Reacher" film went on to earn $218 million worldwide on a relatively modest budget of $60 million. Reacher Trailer: Meet A Jack Reacher Who Is Much, Much Taller Than Tom Cruise. Cruise played the former Army military police officer in two relatively successful films, Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, over eight years. Child was diplomatic during press tours, explaining that Cruise may not look like Reacher, but conveyed the presence of Reacher, which is more important when you have a real-life person playing the part. This immediately caused a bit of an uproar among fans, as Cruise didn't match Child's physical description of Reacher in the books. Also featured are actors David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall. Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the film stars Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Rosamund Pike as attorney Helen Rodin. In an interview for Entertainment Tonight, Tom Cruise talks reprising his role in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. It is an adaptation of Lee Childs 2005 novel One Shot. In June of 2011, Tom Cruise signed on to play the title character in Christopher McQuarrie's " Jack Reacher," a crime thriller based on a series of novels by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film.
