thread for the movie JACK REACHER (cruise, pike, herzog, duvall, dir. christopher mcquarrie)

thor hemsworth

i love him but for some reason my gut says no

Reading the books pre-movie, I was picturing the actor playing Dwight in "Haven", a Canadian wrestler.

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.

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.

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.

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.

reacher isnt built fyi hes rangy

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.

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

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 funny

haven’t seen these but want to check out for herzog’s acting at least

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]

So is he the male el James? Brit hack writing self-insert fanfic set in America?

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.

Jack Reacher books are definitely the shittiest thing I love

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

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...

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.

lol otm

He should have called the character Jack Reechild

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.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/lee-child-and-naked-blue-team-up-for-a-jack-reache.html

yeah the books are super trashy

the descriptions of women’s clothing in particular were very 80’s playboy fantasy iirc (unless i’m mixing it up with some other author)

id have said they have a lot in common with straight-to-video mid 90s churn, insofar as a book can have production values

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."

when you've got movies like tom cruise in them you can't lose!

Voting for Jeff Garlin.

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 thing

I mean, based on that we could end up with Michael Cera, who tf knows

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.

Heh, Zach Braff IS

goldblum

streep

I could see Bradley Cooper, I guess. I mean, moreso than Paul Dano or Jesse Eisenberg

eurgh

josh brolin a few years ago mebbes

Skeet Ulrich

Frank Spencer

Bradley Wiggins

Michael Cera

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

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

Jim Krasinski was also in that shit Benghazi flick

WmC otm re Jack Reacher and Travis McGee:

non-conformist lifestyle requiring frequent travel
intuitive with flashes of deductive genius
100% survival rate in homicidal hand-to-hand combat
experienced in dismantling criminal conspiracies without due process
attractive and helpful to women but poor at long-term relationships

btw McQuarrie now signed on to make another two Missions b2b, making seven Cruise vehicles in a row for him (and ten total)

hes a good handler for the lil fella

yeah this feels like good news

maybe one day they’ll give McQuarrie a Bond film?

i mean, once he’s released from Cruise servitude

gotta keep Tom busy to keep him out of trouble and not making public comments about scientology

true

praise xenu for mcquarrie’s service

maybe one day they’ll give McQuarrie a Bond film?

since they replaced the Hodge / Boyle script for the next one with the regular hacks, I can’t see the reins being handed on purpose to someone who’s good at both action & franchise management

also the Bonds suck so much now that it would be a step down for him. if Chris Morgan ever feels like opening up his solo credit on the already room-written Fasts though, McQuarrie’s gift for combining multiple setpieces, twist reveals & clear emotional throughlines should sell itself to Vin easily

(though one suspects McQ couldn’t hack working with him on a second one)

would it kill u to let me dream

Don't hurt me but I'd love to see a Russell T Davies Bond

Which is to say, I like McQuarrie and the IM films, but he's not kinky enough for Bond