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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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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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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This became apparent last week when images of studio ad banners (seen above and below) started to come out of Cannes, but now the change is official: Paramount has changed the name of Christopher McQuarrie's new Tom Cruise action/thriller from One Shot to Jack Reacher. The film is an adaptation of Lee Child's novel One…
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Monday at CinemaCon, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation presented footage from their upcoming 2012 slate to a room full of theater exhibitors (and a few press). After the jump you will find a video blog I recorded with Frosty from Collider reacting to 25 minutes of Madagascar 3, 15 minutes of Rise of the Guardians,…
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How much confidence does Paramount have in One Shot, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, about which we still know next to nothing? Both films have been given high-profile December release dates, with One Shot now set to open on December 21, 2012, and Teenage Mutant…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We've known for weeks now that Tom Cruise would be playing Jack Reacher in Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot, adapted from Lee Child's bestselling crime novel. Now comes news on who might be playing opposite Cruise as the female lead. Over the weekend, at least three actresses reportedly met with McQuarrie and the studio to read…
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Two actresses broke out of this year's Sundance Film Festival in a big way: Elizabeth Olsen (thanks to Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House) and Brit Marling, who starred in and co-wrote Another Earth and The Sound of My Voice. Elizabeth Olsen has four films in various stages of completion (Red Lights; Peace, Love,…
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This December's embarrassment of riches for film fans just got a little easier to navigate. Paramount has slightly shifted the release of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol from December 16 to December 21. That moves it away from the similarly action packed Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked) on the…
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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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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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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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