The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute
So, a Jason Momoa type who can actually act. Has there ever been that person?
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
always saw christopher eccleston in the role when reading it
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
obv vince vaughn surprised everyone in cell block 99 but not sure he could pull off reacher (lol reacheround joke)
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
he couldn't even truly detect
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 12 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
need someone who can imply ex-military with their presenceMomoa’s a bit too UFC & kind of bro-y Maybe Josh Brolin, Karl Urban, or Michael Cudlitz. Something in that wheelhouse.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
I think Brolin would be good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
thor hemsworth
― If Your Site Mod Vomits (Do This Every Day) (WmC), Sunday, 13 January 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
i love him but for some reason my gut says no
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
Reading the books pre-movie, I was picturing the actor playing Dwight in "Haven", a Canadian wrestler.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
Urban needs a win now Dredd and Trek are both cancelled. Plus he’s awesome.
I’ve only read the first book but my mind went to John Cena with Ice-T’s voice for some reason.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
I like how cruise wasn't intimidating. Just a dude that had trained his body, genetic limitations on the surface, to hurt people. The tim lincecum of pain delivery.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 13 January 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
I didn't read the books, though. It still feels like a director or producer issue. Tom was fine in the first movie. Bourne series was able to extend the joy for a couple more without recasting.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 13 January 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
I didn’t have any prob with Cruise in the first movie. He compensates for the lack of height with his physicality & intensity. I bought it.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
reacher isnt built fyi hes rangy
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 10:04 (five years ago) link
I've always thought Jack Reacher has a nickname for a serial sex pest ring to it and is very bad fictional name or maybe that's the point? I dunno. The author was on a q+a with fans on book club on bbc WS last week, he's a bit of a transatlantic Swiss Toni sounding wazzock.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
i mean the books are absolutely by-the-kit bad fiction
theyre just very very easy, satisfying reads
and p much perfect for translation to tv/film
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
I listened to an episode of I don’t even own a television (the bad book podcast) that was about one of the books and the excerpts sounded pretty funnyhaven’t seen these but want to check out for herzog’s acting at least
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:32 (five years ago) link
Similarities between Reacher and Lee Child[edit]
Numerous critics have pointed out the various similarities between Lee Child and Jack Reacher. Bryan Curtis, writing for Grantland, and Natasha Harding and Caroline Iggulden, in a separate article for The Sun, have brought out the various similarities between Child and Reacher: Child is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall while his protagonist stands 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m); both writer and creation constantly consume coffee; Like Reacher, Child "lives in cheap pairs of jeans and T-shirts and finds the idea of buying expensive clothes to be irrational"; and that "Jack Reacher's famous physical qualities are based on Child's playground memories as a child".[1][7] Child tends to agree with such observations: "I was huge as a kid and Reacher's stature is me translated as a kid. I enjoyed being bigger and fighting shamelessly. I've done a fair amount of headbutting. It's an awesome manoeuvre."[note 1] Andy Martin notes that "just as Reacher is half-Rimbaud, half-Rambo, Child is both art-for-art's-sake Parnassian and ruthless businessman."[8]
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
So is he the male el James? Brit hack writing self-insert fanfic set in America?
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
hard to think of a well-over-6ft guy with a special set of skills running around coldly decimating all in his path, well anyway let's use Tom Cruise I guess.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Jack Reacher books are definitely the shittiest thing I love
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Child is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall while his protagonist stands 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)lmao the extra inch is a fucking amazing detail
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
on the WS show, in a very bad attempt at humblebrag he confessed that he had only been in one physical fight in decades, but mark my words the other guy came off much much worse etc...
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
lol otm
― Number None, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
He should have called the character Jack Reechild
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
everything about the Reacher character was obviously conceived during his elementary school years of terrorizing small children. too bad about falling short by one inch, but that's what fiction can fix.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/lee-child-and-naked-blue-team-up-for-a-jack-reache.html
― mick signals, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
yeah the books are super trashythe descriptions of women’s clothing in particular were very 80’s playboy fantasy iirc (unless i’m mixing it up with some other author)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
id have said they have a lot in common with straight-to-video mid 90s churn, insofar as a book can have production values
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
I've read a couple of these -- my first thought was he's a 21st C Travis McGee, but the comparison fell apart after "they're both tall."
― The Non-Verbal Signs Your Mod Is Giving You (WmC), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
when you've got movies like tom cruise in them you can't lose!
― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Voting for Jeff Garlin.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
The tv version casting can’t be any weirder than John Krazinski aka Jim from the Office as Jack Ryan in that Tom Clancy Amazon thingI mean, based on that we could end up with Michael Cera, who tf knows
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
That Jack Ryan thing was pretty good. Of course, I only ever saw about five minutes of The Office (US version) and hated it, so I had no cognitive dissonance happening.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Heh, Zach Braff IS
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
goldblum
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
streep
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I could see Bradley Cooper, I guess. I mean, moreso than Paul Dano or Jesse Eisenberg
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
eurghjosh brolin a few years ago mebbes
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
Skeet Ulrich
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Frank Spencer
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
Bradley Wiggins
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Michael Cera
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
we watched a ton of The Office, so the Jack Ryan tv show very quickly became known as "Jim Goes To Yemen" in our house
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
it got better as it went along, but at first it felt kinda terrible then again a lot of Clancy is kinda that way for me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Jim Krasinski was also in that shit Benghazi flick
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
WmC otm re Jack Reacher and Travis McGee:
non-conformist lifestyle requiring frequent travelintuitive with flashes of deductive genius100% survival rate in homicidal hand-to-hand combatexperienced in dismantling criminal conspiracies without due process attractive and helpful to women but poor at long-term relationships
― Brad C., Monday, 14 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
btw McQuarrie now signed on to make another two Missions b2b, making seven Cruise vehicles in a row for him (and ten total)
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
hes a good handler for the lil fella
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
yeah this feels like good newsmaybe one day they’ll give McQuarrie a Bond film?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link