1. Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher Movies
2. Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher Series
3. Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher

Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher Movies

Make Me is the twentieth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.^[1][2] It was initially published on 8 September 2015 by Delacorte Press.^[3] The novel is written in the third person.

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With Jack Reacher, he has created an ex-military cop trying to make a living in the civilian world, but always ending up in some kind of trouble as he tries to right wrongs. Child was obviously not the first author to come up with an action here who appears when needed and then vanishes off into the sunset after saving the day, but his. Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). Reacher may lack the self-questioning complexity of Smiley or the queasy nuance of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, but Child makes his simplicity a virtue. Reacher is Jason Bourne without the Sophoclean psychology and heroic quest. Which actor would make a good Jack Reacher? I vote for Jeff Bosley. Photo from #BosleyForReacher Facebook Page. He’s an actor who is 6′ 5″, can bulk up to the necessary proportions for the character, and has experience with acting and stunt work. Jack Reacher Chronological Order Series 26 primary works. 36 total works Not the order of release, but the Reacher books and stories chronologically, from his youth to his adulthood.

Somewhere in the sprawling, flat, desolate Midwestern United States, Reacher arrives by train at a small town named Mother's Rest, curious as to the story behind the name. He meets a Chinese American woman named Chang who is apparently searching for a lost associate. Thinking that the town may have once been a young mother's delivery site or perhaps the final resting place of an old woman, Reacher wanders the town asking the locals about the name, but he does not learn anything. He decides to befriend Chang, who reveals she is an ex-FBI agent turned private investigator who is looking for her colleague; Keever. Reacher's suspicions are aroused by the aloofness of the locals and he decides to stay in the town to help with Chang's investigations.

Chang explains that she was only recently called in by Keever and does not know the identity of his client or any of the details of his case. Searching Keever's motel room, Reacher finds a crumpled up note with the name 'Maloney' and a phone number. It belongs to a journalist from Los Angeles named Westwood who is the Science Editor and handles calls from conspiracy theorists, which he eventually blocks after numerous calls. He turns out to be a dead end. Reacher and Chang then turn their search to Maloney, believing him to be Keever's contact and a resident of Mother's Rest. As they investigate the town, they are confronted by hostile locals whom Reacher quickly defeats while stealing their handguns.

Reacher and Chang then visit Keever's home, finding it to be ransacked with all of the man's investigative notes missing. Reacher becomes convinced that Keever had stumbled onto something big and been killed for it, and the two decide to go to Los Angeles to meet with Westwood. Convincing the journalist that Keever had been onto something newsworthy, they agree to give Westwood exclusive rights to the story in exchange for his help. Westwood reluctantly agrees and gives Reacher the phone numbers of unknown people who had recently called him and been blocked, thus fitting the profile of Keever's mystery client. They learn that their man Maloney is actually a Chicago resident named Peter McCann.

Arriving at McCann's home, they find he has gone missing. They are then attacked by a hitman named Hackett, who is narrowly incapacitated by Reacher after sustaining moderate injuries. The two then question McCann's neighbor and learn that Peter had a sister. At her home in Phoenix, they are attacked by even more hired assassins. With the help of Chang's FBI contacts, they learn the men are all employed by a Ukrainian crime lord named Merchenko. Reacher deduces that Merchenko is either the mastermind or outside security in the mastermind's employ. The puppet master is apparently someone indigenous to the town of Mother's Rest. By an amazing coincidence, Reacher and Chang happen across Merchenko outside of his club. Reacher righteously executes the criminal in broad daylight.

Traveling back to Los Angeles, Reacher and Chang reunite with Westwood. Going over all that they learned from McCann's sister and neighbor, Reacher posits that Peter was investigating the disappearance of his son, Michael. Michael had suffered from anhedonia and was a recluse who spent the majority of his time on the Internet. As the call from 'Maloney' had been about the Deep Web, Reacher, Chang and Westwood meet with an associate of Westwood's, a computer hacker in Palo Alto. Westwood's contact is able to discover that Mother's Rest has a Deep Web site providing assisted euthanasia services. They further find that Michael had been speaking with suicidal persons over the Deep Web and arranged to meet one of them in Mother's Rest to undergo euthanasia together.

Reacher, Chang and Westwood come up with a plan to assault the pig farm outside Mother's Rest which is both highly remote and well-defended. After a mildly challenging, routine job of killing all of the armed employees, Reacher's team discovers that someone had converted the farmhouse into a film production facility. The entrepreneurs had lured in suicidal people over the Deep Web with promises of painlessly luxurious euthanasia services. Once the clients had arrived however, they were actually made the stars of expensive snuff films tailored to the viewer's specifications and sold over the Deep Web. Over two hundred such victims had been brutally murdered prior to Keever stumbling onto it in the course of his investigating Michael's disappearance. Reacher and Chang avenge Keever, Peter, and Michael by killing the last members of the conspiracy. In the aftermath of all that dirty work they decide to spend a little downtime in Milwaukee together.

Review[edit]

Bear that in mind next time someone tells you that Mr. Child, whose cerebral tough-guy thrillers all follow the same basic rules, is just one more genre type repeating himself in a mechanical way. “Make Me” is a hot one. So was “Never Go Back” two years ago, but the tepid “Personal” (2014) came between them. Mr. Child does his best work when he ventures into gutsy new challenges, and “Personal” didn’t present any. “Make Me” presents a huge one, but it takes its sweet time in revealing what, exactly, is underfoot in the vaguely sinister hick town that tempts Reacher.

—Janet Maslin, The New York Times^[4]

Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher Series

References[edit]

1. ^Fischer, Russ (September 16, 2014). 'Lee Child Comments on Next Jack Reacher Film'. slashfilm.com. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
2. ^'Make Me (Jack Reacher #20)'. Goodreads. goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
3. ^'Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel Hardcover – September 8, 2015'. Amazon.com. amazon.com. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
4. ^MASLIN, JANET (31 August 2015). 'Review: In 'Make Me,' Lee Child Adds Another Layer to Jack Reacher'. The New York Times. nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 November 2015.

External links[edit]

• Lee Child, Author of Make Me at Book Expo America on YouTube

Tom Cruise has done pretty much everything you can do as an actor short of winning an Academy Award, though many believe the three-time nominee (for 1989's Born on the Fourth of July, 1996's Jerry Maguire, and 1999's Magnolia) probably should've taken home at least one of those too. Nevertheless, Cruise remains one of the biggest movie stars on the planet with the resurgent Mission: Impossible series (one of those franchises that just kept getting better) revitalizing his popularity in ways even he might not have anticipated.

But Mission: Impossible merely one of many blockbuster properties he's fronted. There's little question the Jack Reacher films rank among the most overlooked in Cruise's action oeuvre. Based on a beloved series of novels from author Lee Child, those films found Cruise stepping into the title role as a former Military Police Investigator-turned-drifter who occasionally takes up high-stakes investigatory work when the right cause arises.

The first Reacher film arrived in 2012 with Cruise's current Mission: Impossible bestie Christopher McQuarrie at the helm. While it didn't quite become the box office sensation many anticipated, the film was more than successful enough to merit a followup. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back arrived in 2016 with another Cruise collaborator Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai) calling the shots. Unfortunately, many critics boasted everyone involved would've done well to follow that title's advice. Critical drubbing aside, Never Go Back still did solid enough at the box office that many assumed a third film would soon follow.

Despite recent teases from McQuarrie that he and Cruise had developed a Hard-R-rated concept for Jack Reacher 3, the film never materialized. Sadly, we now know it never will.

Jack Reacher 3 is not happening, but Reacher will return on Amazon Prime

Despite the Jack Reacher film's relative box office success, it's not a shock that Tom Cruise won't be returning. He has, after all, dedicated the bulk of his time lately to filming movie scenes that nearly kill him for his Mission: Impossible flicks. In his downtime, Cruise recently even returned to his Top Gun roots for the yet-to-be released sequel Top Gun: Maverick. He'll soon be blasting off into actual outer space for an as-yet untitled Space X movie too. So to say the actor is spreading himself thin these days might be an understatement.

On top of that, Jack Reacher creator Lee Child was never a particular fan of Cruise's casting in the title role, telling BBC Newsin 2018 he believed Cruise's stature didn't closely enough match the brute-force physicality of his creation. 'Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality. I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He's a really, really nice guy. We had a lot of fun. But ultimately, the readers are right. The size of Reacher is really, really important, and it's a big component of who he is ... the idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute.'

Such as it was, when Amazon Studios announced a Jack Reacher TV series in the works for Amazon Prime Video, they also announced the title role would indeed be recast. Producers later confirmed super-brawny Titans star Alan Ritchson had won the coveted role, officially bringing Cruise's reign as Jack Reacher to an end (via Deadline).

Who Would Make A Good Jack Reacher

Cruise and McQuarrie are still developing that R-rated concept though

That Jack Reacher recasting news was a legit bummer, as Cruise's and McQuarrie's Hard-R take on the subject sounded genuinely intriguing. It also would've more closely resemble the graphic nature of Child's source material. Either way, the free-reign streaming treatment likely means Amazon Studios will beat Cruise and McQuarrie to the R-rated punch for Jack Reacher.

The good news is that Cruise and McQuarrie are still looking to tackle such cinematic territory in Hard-R fashion. In a 2020Empire interview, Christopher McQuarrie teased that the pair were working on an action flick that would present Cruise to audiences in a way they'd never seen. 'It's a very un-Tom character, and we have plans for an even more un-Tom character that we've been talking about, which I'm hopeful about in the future. The franchise has moved on, and we haven't. So we've now got stuff in the hopper. The [Jack Reacher] stuff we're talking about now is tinker toys [compared to it], I'm actually very, very excited.'

Given McQuarrie also teased the inspiration for the project came via films like Deadpool and Joker, it seems Cruise is looking to break even badder than he did in Michael Mann's underrated 2004 thriller Collateral. Should that be the case, we're all in to see what he brings to the role. As for McQuarrie, anyone who's seen his equally underrated 2000 film The Way of the Gun knows he's got a flair for colorful language and violent action few can rival. Here's hoping the duo get that R-rated project before cameras sooner rather than later.