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Who reads Lee Child? I hear they're making a movie.

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I'm reading The Affair, the new Lee Child book. I loooove these books. I was wondering if they were making movies from these yet and if the cast would be decent if so. So i googled it. And they're making one based on One Shot. Who's been confirmed to play Reacher?

Freaking Tom Cruise.

Could there be someone more inappropriate? Seriously, this character is 6'-5" and huge and tough. I cannot even begin to see Cruise in this role unless they are planning to completely change the character. And that would pretty much ruin any movie based on the books for me.

Figures.
 
April20|1318674401|3040824 said:
Could there be someone more inappropriate?

Gwyneth Paltrow. But I love her and I hate Tom Cruise and even if they can make him look taller (after all, they did this with Alan Ladd), I will never go to see a Lee Child movie featuring him. The casting director should have taken into consideration how many people absolutely loathe him before he burdened the movie with him!

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Tom Cruise freaks me out! Even if they could make him look more the part, no way am I spending money to watch that dude!!!
 
OMG April! I posted about this on FB a while back! I read it in the newsletter and..yes it sounds lame but I was HORRIFIED at the thought of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Dumbfounded. Jaw agape. A big bear of a guy, who kind of reminds me of a bigger version of my husband, to be played by someone MY size? What in the world were they thinking when they did the casting? I'm quite certain I won't watch it.

I get all up in arms when the film version doesn't match what I see in my head (tho in this case it isn't even so much what's in my imagination-they're going against how the character is described in every single book)..I wanted to knock on Stephen King's door after watching parts of the tv version of The Stand.

I don't care for Tom Cruise..I liked him as the killer in that movie w/Jamie Foxx..Collateral..but that's about it. That has nothing to do w/it. Jack Reacher is a big huge, heavy handed guy of what, 6'4"? Bah.

JACK REACHER

Name: Jack Reacher (no middle name)
Born: October 29th
Measurements: 6'5", 220-250 lbs., 50" chest
Hair: Dirty-blond
Eyes: Ice blue
Clothing: 3XLT coat, 95 cm. pants' inseam

We share the same birthday...This is taken directly from the Lee Child/Jack Reacher website. This is so much not Tom Cruise it's laughable. And yes, I am one of those people who will nit pick the crap out of the movie/tv adaptation of a book/series that I'm really into. If a character has a scar on their left cheek-especially the MAIN CHARACTER, then by golly it better be there in the movie.
 
Jack Reacher can take someone out with a head-butt and the five guys behind the first one. In no way is this believable from a shrimp like Cruise. Unless they can trick the camera by only hiring people under 5' tall to play the thugs!

And all this ranting would be why i generally hate movies based on books I love.
 
I hate the thought of a character like Reacher being turned into..I don't know, a farce.

I'm like that too, about books/movies. If possible I'd rather see the movie first b/c most of the time I'm sure to be disappointed if I don't feel the movie followed the book close enough.
 
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