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I remember seeing the first Jack Reacher movie and being pleasantly surprised by both the character and Tom Cruise's performance I since went back and read a couple of the Lee Child novels where Reacher started Interestingly the first film was not based on the first novel, it was based on One Shot, the ninth[...]

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back comes out on October 21st, it's the sequel to the 2012 film with Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Jai Courtney It's based on the novels by Lee Childs and in my opinion, it was a good movie But fans of the character of Jack Reacher reacted poorly to Cruise's casting,[...]

One of the film's I'm looking forward to this fall is the new Jack Reacher film, Never Go Back Based on the series of novels by Lee Childs, the fist Jack Reacher film was released in 2012 starring Tom Cruise and was written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie The film did a really good job[...]

During an interview with Empire, Lee Child let it be known that his action hero Jack Reacher was going to get a second film Tom Cruise, who played Reacher in the first film, will return but director Christopher McQuarrie will not and Child explained why. "McQuarrie is going to be in post-production on Mission: Impossible 5[...]

It really seems like Jack Reacher kinda came and went without much fanfare, but according to Deadline, it did enough to warrant a sequel, and one is being actively developed and fast-tracked now with Tom Cruise attached to return. The new film, which will not be filmed before Mission: Impossible 5 despite the studio's best[...]

Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool. There is something a touch odd about this promotional video for Jack Reacher By and large it's a pretty bog standard featurette, describing a little bit about the character Jack Reacher and who he is, all explained by Lee Child, the novellist who created the character. And then, there's the last[...]

After all, they're all fiercely competent men of violence, albeit with slightly different levels of morality in place. Who couldn't imagine a disgraced Ethan, ten years or more down the line, with his hair grey and his suit immaculate, killing people in Michael Mann's sodium light-slick LA? I certainly can. Whether or not Jack Reacher is the[...]

The premise, that Reacher is a man constantly on the move and constantly getting into the very trouble he's trying to avoid, is great pulp fodder and Child's combination of grim pragmatism and glee at getting to write about people hitting one another very very hard tends to make them fun reading. Now we get the[...]