jackThe 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 six and a half-foot, sandy-haired slab of a man, will definitely be played by Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie‘s One Shot. This is a confirmation of word that came down a months ago. Paramount has had Christopher McQuarrie developing One Shot since this time last year; he wrote the latest draft of the script and will direct.
And now Cruise, who starred in the McQuarrie-penned Valkyrie, is going to step into Reacher’s massive shoes and disposable clothes. (One of the more idiosyncratic habits of the character, a former star in the military police who wanders the US as a way to connect with his country after living most of his life overseas, is buying and throwing out one set of cheap clothes rather than washing them. This is a guy who doesn’t like to be tied down.) One Shot is a thriller in which a sniper guns down five peo
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