![]() ![]() “We’re rebooting and starting over and we’re going to try and find the perfect guy.”Ĭruise’s outings as Reacher weren’t exactly flops – the first Jack Reacher film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, made $218 million at the global box office, and the sequel, which wasn’t well received by critics, grossed $162 million. “I want all those readers who were upset about Tom Cruise to help me out and participate in choosing the right actor for the TV series,” he tells the BBC. “The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you’re all a little nervous just for that first minute.”Ĭhild has decided there will be no more Jack Reacher movies and now he is planning to take the franchise to Netflix or another streaming site. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it’s a big component of who he is. We had a lot of fun, but ultimately the readers are right. ![]() “Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality,” Child told BBC Radio Manchester. In Child’s books, Reacher is described as 6 foot, 5 inches tall with hands the size of dinner plates. A: Although Tom Cruise has proved himself a bona fide action star, he doesn’t quite fit the image of Jack Reacher, described in the novels as 6-foot-5 and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds. 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. Child admits he had a great time working with Cruise but now accepts the movie star wasn’t a big enough presence to win over fans of his books. Alan Ritchson, star of DC's Titans series, has been cast as the new Jack Reacher, in Amazon's planned serialised reboot of Lee Child's best-selling novel series. ![]()
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