Tom Cruise played the nomadic avenger in two successful movies but is a planned R rated Jack Reacher 3 still a possibility for the actor?
Heres every live-action Jack Reacher adaptation including the Tom Cruise movies and Amazons TV series ranked. The character of Jack Reacher first appeared in author Lee Childs novel The Killing Floor, which was published in 1997. Reacher is a hulking ex military policeman who wanders America and often gets into trouble. Childs claims the personality of Reacher was inspired by going in the opposite direction of fictional detective characters that were popular at the time who were often cynical or addicted to various substances. Reacher, in contrast is noble and kind but conversely has little issue with taking the law into his own, giant hands.
The Jack Reacher books have been running since the 90s and their popularity made an adaptation inevitable. Finding an actor to fill Reachers shoes was always going to be an issue since his description reads like Dolph Lundgren and few movie stars are built that way. That was one reason Tom Cruises casting for 2012s Jack Reacher was controversial with readers who felt he was utterly wrong for the part. Childs himself defended the choice, stating Reacher size in the books was almost a metaphor for his being an unstoppable force a quality that Cruise brought out in other ways.
Of course Childs was more than happy when Alan Ritchson who practically looks like he walked out of the novels took over for the Amazon series. Heres every Jack Reacher live action adaptation ranked.
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