Danika Yarosh Joins Tom Cruise In 'Jack Reacher' Sequel
The Jack Reacher sequel is gearing up to shoot soon, and one important role has been claimed by an actor from Heroes Reborn.
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Lee Child Comments On Next Jack Reacher Film
Jack Reacher is almost certainly going to find himself alongside a teen girl in his next movie. The first film adaptation of the long-running novel series by Lee Child was only a modest hit, but a sequel is in development based on the 18th Reacher novel, Never Go Back. In that book, Jack Reacher returns to…
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Will The 'Jack Reacher' Sequel Feature A Smart Female Teen Sidekick?
There will almost certainly be a Jack Reacher sequel -- the questions are "when," and "by whom"? Notice that we don't have to ask which of the many Lee Child novels the film will be based on, because Tom Cruise, Skydance Productions, and Paramount are now developing the most recent book, Never Go Back, as the sequel.…
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'Jack Reacher' Crosses $200 Million Worldwide, Paramount Working On Sequel
In January, the rumor coming from Paramount was that the Tom Cruise action film Jack Reacher, which at the time had grossed about $73 million domestic and was about to open in Asia, had to gross $250 million worldwide to generate interest in a sequel. It seems that number may have dropped when executives looked at…
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'Jack Reacher' TV Spots Feature Werner Herzog And Brazen Intimidation
Here are two TV spots for the Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher, in which Cruise plays the ex-MP wanderer of the film's title. Created by author Lee Child, Jack Reacher is a character who lives in more than a dozen novels full of violence and danger. And while the trailers for the film, and these…
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'Jack Reacher' Trailer: "Remember, You Wanted This"
Over the weekend we saw a low-quality Russian-dubbed version of the trailer for Christopher McQuarrie's film Jack Reacher in which Tom Cruise plays a serious hardass ex-MP drawn into what seems like an open-and-shut sniper killing. Now the real thing has arrived, and it clears up a couple things. One is that the color palette…
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'Jack Reacher' International Trailer Suggests Tom Cruise's Own Version Of 'Drive'
A Russian version of the teaser trailer for Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher has come online, and it marks the first good look most of us have had at the film. Tom Cruise stars as Lee Child's fan-favorite hero Jack Reacher. He's a former military policeman who lives out his post-Army career as an itinerant who…
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Here's One Shot Of Tom Cruise As 'Jack Reacher'
Below is a new look at Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, the title character of Christopher McQuarrie's upcoming Paramount film. It's an old trick to say that Cruise just looks like Cruise here, because of course he does -- that's the whole point of hiring someone at his level of fame, especially to anchor an…
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Tom Cruise Knows Some Fans Aren't Thrilled About Him Playing Jack Reacher In 'One Shot'
Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's thriller novel One Shot is moving forward with Tom Cruise in the lead role of hulking ex-military cop Jack Reacher, who is drawn into a strange plot involving sniper shootings in a mid-size town. To say that fans have been unenthusiastic about that casting choice is an understatement. A…
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'One Shot' Adds Michael Raymond-James, From 'True Blood' And 'Terriers'
The latest addition to Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot, an adaptation of Lee Child's novel of the same name that is already set to feature Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall, and Richard Jenkins, is Michael Raymond-James. The actor had a role on the well-liked and sadly canceled Terriers, and has been a part…
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Tom Cruise Thriller 'One Shot' Becomes A Must-See: Werner Herzog To Play The Villain
I know there are people who don't love the idea of Tom Cruise playing Lee Child's hulking and coldly/violently capable hero Jack Reacher. But with the addition of Werner Herzog to the cast of One Shot, the film that Christopher McQuarrie wrote and is directing based on Child's novel, I don't see how anyone could…
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Casting Bits: Jai Courtney Boards 'One Shot', Hugh Jackman Wants To Do 'Glee', 'Highlander' Star Clancy Brown Joins Untitled Ramin Bahrani Project
The cast of Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot has been filling up at lightning speed over the past month. Robert Duvall, Alexia Fast, Richard Jenkins, and David Oyelowo have all boarded the project within the last few weeks, and now comes news that Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Jai Courtney has signed on as well. Based…
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Robert Duvall Lines Up Role In 'One Shot,' Perhaps As The Villain
The cast of Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's novel One Shot is looking pretty good. Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop who is called upon to assist the prime suspect in a series of sniper murders. Rosamund Pike plays a young defense lawyer who is also roped into the case; Richard Jenkins…
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Casting Bits: Brian Geraghty In 'Flight;' Alexia Fast In 'One Shot;' Mira Sorvino In 'The Class Project'
Robert Zemeckis is getting ready to make Flight, in which Denzel Washington plays a booze- and drug-addled pilot who heroically saves a troubled flight, only to face an investigation into his role in the flight's troubles. Kelly Reilly plays another addict who comes into his life, and Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood are in talks…
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Richard Jenkins Added To Tom Cruise Thriller 'One Shot'
I have to keep writing the phrase "Tom Cruise thriller One Shot" just to get used to the idea of the actor playing Lee Child's giant ex-military cop hero Jack Reacher. I vowed months ago to not bitch about that cast choice any longer, and I'll stick to that. Getting used to it, however, takes…
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Casting Bits: David Oyelowo In 'One Shot;' Marisa Tomei In 'Us & Them;' Nathan Lane In 'The English Teacher'
The latest to join One Shot, the adaptation of Lee Child's thriller novel about former military cop Jack Reacher and the investigation of a strange set of sniper murders in the midwest, is David Oyelowo. Fresh from The Help and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he'll play a veteran homicide detective who investigates…
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Rosmund Pike Will Help Tom Cruise Solve The Mystery Of 'One Shot'
Briefly: Last week we got wind of a small group of actresses who were under consideration to play the lead female role opposite Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of the Lee Child novel One Shot. On the list was Rosamund Pike (An Education, Clash of the Titans 2) who is now in talks to…
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Tom Cruise Confirmed To Play Jack Reacher In 'One Shot'
The good news: a film based on one of the great Jack Reacher books by Lee Child is really going to happen, after years and years of development on various titles in the series that will number 16 novels when The Affair is released this fall. The bad news (perhaps): Jack Reacher, written as a…
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Tom Cruise May Be Jack Reacher In 'One Shot,' And That Seems Like A Terrible Idea
I know that I have always been very publicly in favor of novel to film adaptations that throw out the notion of extreme fidelity to the source. So I don't really have a leg to stand on in this argument. But if you're casting Jack Reacher, a French/American ex-military cop who stands 6'5" and often…
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Christopher McQuarrie To Rewrite, Possibly Direct Adaptation Of Lee Child Novel 'One Shot'
I got a little excited when I clicked open the source article that tells me Christopher McQuarrie has been hired to rework and possibly direct One Shot, based on the Lee Child novel of the same name. I love Child's novels, which follow ex-military policeman Jack Reacher as he drifts across America. They're perfect escapist…
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