The height discrepancy was a sore spot for Reacher fans, who complained about Cruise playing the character, and even Child himself. In the books, the former military police officer turned roaming vigilante stands at 6-foot-5 Cruise, famously, is shorter (Google pegs him at 5-foot-7, though his actual height is not confirmed). The small elephant in the room, of course, is that Cruise-despite being one of the world’s biggest stars and a box office legend-never matched Child’s description of Reacher.

But when he is interrogated, the suspect claims his innocence and tells the police to 'Get Jack Reacher' Reacher sees the story on the news and comes to town in order to confirm the mans guilt, but instead turns up an unexpected enemy with a secret and a skill for violence. Unmentioned in the press release is Tom Cruise, who played Reacher in two films, 2012’s Jack Reacher and 2016’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (a fitting title for Cruise, as it turned out). I think that it will be extremely unlikely, but there is a TV series based on the books being developed by Amazon, Nick Santora, the creator of Scorpion is adapting the books. After a gunman kills five people with just six shots, all of the evidence points to the suspect who is in custody. He is the pulse of Reacher,” Santora said. Child’s books-and luckily Lee has been there, and will continue to be there, to help guide us along the way in this series. “Lee Child has created an incredible character and world it will be the goal of every writer, producer, actor, executive, and crew member to capture the essence of Mr. Amazon Studios announced Tuesday that it has greenlit a new Jack Reacher television series, one the series writer, showrunner, and executive producer Nick Santora pointedly noted will “capture the essence” of Child’s massively successful series of novels. Jack Reacher 2012 In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man drives a van into a parking garage across the Allegheny River from PNC Park and, after dropping a.

Jack Reacher fans and author Lee Child will finally get their wish: a size-appropriate screen version of the franchise's title character.

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