Child is OK with this. He has said that Reacher's size is just a metaphor for being unstoppable.
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Reacher is defined by many things, his height and powerfull physique being one!
Oh, NO, NO, NO!!! I’m just now reading my first Lee Child’s book on recommendation of a friend. I’m liking the story and I’m liking the character, Jack Reacher, and now I’ll have this visual of panty-waist Tom elfin’ Cruise who CAN NOT act, BTW! Uhg!
Judging from the incredible success Mr. Cruise has enjoyed, I’d say he’s the very definition of unstoppable.
Honestly, that is a phrase which I have never before read anywhere in association with Mr. Cruise. Mind you, at least some of the scathing criticism of his acting "skills" has probably been due to his serial mis-castings in a bunch of his more "prominent" roles.
He is laughed about in Ireland for the awful brogue he tried to put on in Far and Away (as well as some very boorish behavior in Dublin while the film was being shot) and The Last Samurai was one of the most ridiculous films of the last 25 years. Jack Nicholson, a certifiably excellent actor, blew little Tommy off the screen in A Few Good Men.
Personally, I can't watch Cruise in a film without thinking of several actors who should have been cast in his part. Most of the films he's had financial success in were SFX extravaganzas, including the whole Mission Impossible series. So I'd be less than enthused about this if I were a fan of the book and the character of Reacher.
What? No way.
Can’t they make a CGI Tom Cruise that’s a foot taller?
They could even make him blue to pull in Avatar fans.....
Picturing Cruise as Reacher is akin to picturing Cruise as Dirty Harry. UGH
I'd laugh, but this may be the end of the Reacher books which I love...every time Child's "hero" appears in the pages, the image of Cruise standing on a footstool will appear in my mind!
They just finished filming this late in the fall in Pittsburgh. They were here quite a while filming it. I did not realize this was supposed to be such a blockbuster movie. It was overshadowed by the filming here during the summer of the Batman movie. There were nonstop stories about that all summer long. Two big blockbuster movies filmed in Pittsburgh. That’s pretty cool.
I may Die Trying to accept Cruise in this role. Maybe there is No Way Out but whoever cast Tom in this role is Running Blind. Childs should have included a Tripwire in the contract to avoid what for many of us Reacher fans looks like Bad Luck and Trouble. Maybe the movie will be the Persuader that gets me to accept this but it’s going to be The Hard Way. It seems that Without Fail, Hollywood screws up good books. They had One Shot to cast this series and they blew it as usual. I know it’s only a movie and not Worth Dying For and like all movies will be Gone Tomorrow but it’s like The Enemy of macho leading men decided to leave the simplicity of Reacher on The Killing Floor and substitute Mission Improbable special effects. I can hear the pyrotechnics Echo Burning in my ear already. Probably won’t be able to hear for 61 Hours after this one. But what the hell, I’ll probably see it. After all I’ve got Nothing to Loose.
6’ 1½” Cary Grant
6’ 4” John Wayne
6’ 2” Charlton Heston
6’ 3” Gregory Peck
6’ 1” Henry Fonda
6’ 1” Clark Gable
6’ 3” James Stewart
I guess Alan Alda was not available...
Jack Reacher doesn’t need a box office draw, he needs a man to play him, a big man.
Picking Cruise shows me the production company has no idea how to do this.
John Rhys Davies is over 6 ft tall but in Lord of the Rings he played a dwarf.........Movie technology today can not only create Cruise's height but it can also make him look and sound intelligent.......
Why not Mark Wahlburg for another Child’s book-turn- movie?
good actor, believable tough guy.
Its a shame Dolph Lungren is a bit on the old side, I would think he would be a pretty good actor to play Jack Reacher.
And I am a very good fan of every book.
Tom Cruise will kill it, they need the character just right, has to be a big man, a loner that is bad enough to crack heads of the best of the best and that means Seals, Rangers and any other really tough guys.