Jack Reacher: With Tom Cruise out, who will play the action hero next?

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Jack Reacher: With Tom Cruise out, who will play the action hero next?

by Clémence Michallon

 

screen grab from independent.co.uk

 

Tom Cruise is out as Jack Reacher – so who will play the action hero in a forthcoming reboot?

 

With author Lee Child telling BBC Radio Manchester that the Mission: Impossible actor, "for all his talent", didn't have the right "physicality" to play Reacher, it appears a spot has opened for the new TV adaptation.

 

When Cruise was first picked to play Reacher, which he has done in two movies, some complained that the Hollywood actor wasn't the right choice.

 

Reacher is described in Lee's books as being a 250-pound blond man standing at 6ft 5in tall, with hands the size of dinner plates or Thanksgiving turkeys, and knuckles like walnuts.

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jack-reacher-tom-cruise-height-tall-short-actors-tv-series-who-next-films-a8635761.html

[OneMoreFarang]

I read all the Reacher books and I always had someone like Steven Seagal in mind.

I never watched Tom Cruise in that role in the cinema. That would be like Rowan Atkinson playing 007.

 

Edited November 16, 2018 by OneMoreFarang

[lust]

Kevin Spacey

[NE1]

Cruise as Reacher was laughable.

[watcharacters]

 

When will it be on YouTube?

 

[giddyup]

37 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I read all the Reacher books and I always had someone like Steven Seagal in mind.

 

Steven Seagal, surely you jest. Comes from the Easter Island school of acting and can barely tie his own shoe laces these days.

[giddyup]

16 minutes ago, NE1 said:

Cruise as Reacher was laughable.

He was a mini Reacher.

[kotsak]

Maybe Dolph Lundgren, if he was younger. ????

[NE1]

Or one of them Hemsworth's if they were older.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, giddyup said:

Steven Seagal, surely you jest. Comes from the Easter Island school of acting and can barely tie his own shoe laces these days.

A couple of years ago (ok, maybe decades) he was not too bad.

And sorry, I have no idea about that school. Is it important?

[giddyup]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

A couple of years ago (ok, maybe decades) he was not too bad.

And sorry, I have no idea about that school. Is it important?

Easter Island school of acting is for those class of actors whose expressions never change.

 

[KittenKong]

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I read all the Reacher books and I always had someone like Steven Seagal in mind.

Hmm. I dont think so.

 

[CharlieH]

Tall, blonde, Brad Pitt would fit, at 54 he's 2 yrs younger than Cruise.

 

My pick would be Jeremy Renner, 47. Action hero etc. Ticks alot of the boxes.

[AlexRich]

James Comey, ex FBI chief ... he's tall enough, and he's available.

[sirineou]

6 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

James Comey, ex FBI chief ... he's tall enough, and he's available.

How about hands? does he have big hands? Big hands are important!!

[AlexRich]

3 hours ago, sirineou said:

How about hands? does he have big hands? Big hands are important!!

Trump's out then!

[giddyup]

He's getting a bit old for the part now, but Liam Neeson would have been OK.

[OneMoreFarang]

How about Hagrid? Ok, he needs to shave first. ???? 

 

[phantomfiddler]

Actually, I,m not busy at the moment ????

[colinneil]

17 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

Actually, I,m not busy at the moment ????

They might have considered you, but no zimmer frames available.

[Old Croc]

10 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Tall, blonde, Brad Pitt would fit, at 54 he's 2 yrs younger than Cruise.

 

My pick would be Jeremy Renner, 47. Action hero etc. Ticks alot of the boxes.

Renner is about the same height as Cruise.

[Zack61]

5’6” is almost 6’5”. Producer or director must have been dyslexic. 

[CALSinCM]

How about someone who is actually 6 foot 6? 

[giddyup]

17 minutes ago, CALSinCM said:

How about someone who is actually 6 foot 6? 

Who?

[IAMHERE]

How about someone who is actually 6 foot 6? 

And can put butts in the seats. Tom was good for the franchise; without him the films would not have been made at all. Find a tall enough actor and he'll be unknown or have the acting chops of Seagal. Maybe Pixar can make the next Jack Reacher film, after all he is a fictional cartoon character at heart.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Sounds like we're looking for an ex NBA star with acting chops....

 

Although, now that I think about it, ex NFL star and NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp is a suitably big sized guy and quite a character on TV with a big personality... I think he'd be good in the role....  Plus, he could REALLY use the money....

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Dionigi]

I just hope they stick closer to the books. the last one was a disappointment after reading them. They are much more exiting and interesting.

[giddyup]

Dwayne Johnson. Ethnically he may not quite fit, but his size certainly does.

[owl sees all]

7 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Dwayne Johnson. Ethnically he may not quite fit, but his size certainly does.

First thought was Wayne Rooney. But, then I was thinking maybe he can't act. So my choice is Nicholas Cage.

[giddyup]

Just now, owl sees all said:

First thought was Wayne Rooney. But, then I was thinking maybe he can't act. So my choice is Nicholas Cage.

Have you seen anything good with Nick lately? Mostly straight to DVD fodder. He's jowly and over the hill.