So, Jack Reacher without Tom Cruise

[Gil Bang 25905]

On tapa so no link, but today Lee Child said Reacher would be streaming as a series, without TC. He said that Tom Cruise is a terrific actor, and was a pleasure to work with, but he was miscast in the role.

 

They are actively looking for an actor to plat Reacher, and Child says that he welcomes anyone’s suggestions.

 

I’m actually excited about this in the food and watching it on Netflix or Amazon or wherever

 

[BrickTop 474]

Kevin Durand


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[Hamttx 419]

You mean like an actual big guy that doesn’t have a girly body. You know like the original material called for.

[Parliament 14157]

A "light" series of serial books is a great thing to base a Netflix series on. Kevin Durand is a good call, and may I suggest Kevin Vance?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pepper brooks 579]

I nominate the dude who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy, or maybe Liev Schriever.  

 

I also think Cruz did a fine job as Reacher, and enjoyed both movies.  THat said, he was clearly mis-cast in that role.  The whole Reacher aura and mystique is physical stature, and while I think Cruz captured the essence of Reacher's personality and wit, he could obviously never bring to the screen the physical presence and intimidation so necessary to make the Reacher character feel authentic.  

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[TommyGufano 6021]

Michael J. Fox

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

1 hour ago, pepper brooks said:

I nominate the dude who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy, or maybe Liev Schriever.  

 

I also think Cruz did a fine job as Reacher, and enjoyed both movies.  THat said, he was clearly mis-cast in that role.  The whole Reacher aura and mystique is physical stature, and while I think Cruz captured the essence of Reacher's personality and wit, he could obviously never bring to the screen the physical presence and intimidation so necessary to make the Reacher character feel authentic.  

If you just think of the Reacher movies as more "generic bad-ass beats up the bad guys and saves the day" movies, they're fine, but as much as I like Cruise in most things, he just wasn't Jack Reacher.

[PittsburghTiger 6168]

There is only one choice:

Dwayne Johnson!

[Gil Bang 25905]

2 hours ago, pepper brooks said:

I nominate the dude who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy, or maybe Liev Schriever.  

 

I also think Cruz did a fine job as Reacher, and enjoyed both movies.  THat said, he was clearly mis-cast in that role.  The whole Reacher aura and mystique is physical stature, and while I think Cruz captured the essence of Reacher's personality and wit, he could obviously never bring to the screen the physical presence and intimidation so necessary to make the Reacher character feel authentic.  

It just occurred to me that they could have filled every role  other than Reacher with midgets.  It would have worked.  

Didn't they do old Alan Ladd westerns that way?

[Patrick Bateman 3910]

Ray Stevenson

Liev Schreiber

Clive Owen

Dolph!  Probably too old.  Ray Stevenson is the guy although Kevin Durand isn't a bad choice.

Reacher's supposed to be older and weathered.

[smuggs 9346]

3 hours ago, TommyGufano said:

Michael J. Fox

Jack Rrrrrrr-rr-rrrrrrrrrrrr-r-rr-rrrr-r-r-rrrrrrrr-r-r-r-r-rrrrrrrrrrrr-r--rrrrreacher.

 

[FondrenRoad 4378]

39 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Ray Stevenson

Liev Schreiber

Clive Owen

Dolph!  Probably too old.  Ray Stevenson is the guy although Kevin Durand isn't a bad choice.

Reacher's supposed to be older and weathered.

Hulk Hogan.

Blonde.  Big and tall.  Old and weathered.

[MissingInAction 24870]

Johnny Depp

[deadshank 24651]

Put some muscle on Joel Kinnaman and he'd work.  He's like 6' 3" and the average Hollywood type is a midget so he'd look like Andre the Giant.

[Vito Andolini 9115]

I like to think I’m up on things, but I didn’t realize the jerk from Lost was played by an actor named Kevin Durand (I thought the poster was making a Kevin Durant joke), and I sure as hell didn’t know who Joel Kinnaman is, so I Googled. 

What I came away with was an appreciation for his wife, who has completely turned me around on tatted chicks. Holy moly. 

 Cleo Wattenstrom

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[Drew 2377]

I didn't hate the first movie at all...2nd was a much harder watch.

 

Of course I never read the books, so I didn't have the obvious bias against him immediately.

[BrickTop 474]

Definitely like ray Stevenson May be a bit too old and weathered though, what about Alex skarsgard, Joe managiello, could Jason Momoa pull it off?


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[Neonmoon 38127]

Is there a young Ray Stevenson around?

[Jimbaround 973]

Is there a young Ray Stevenson around?

Thing is, Reacher is probably 50 by now. So Ray Stevenson would work.

[immortal13 4059]

6 hours ago, smuggs said:

Jack Rrrrrrr-rr-rrrrrrrrrrrr-r-rr-rrrr-r-r-rrrrrrrr-r-r-r-r-rrrrrrrrrrrr-r--rrrrreacher.

 

See you in hell, bro

[Gil Bang 25905]

12 minutes ago, Jimbaround said:

 

Thing is, Reacher is probably 50 by now. So Ray Stevenson would work.

 

Doesn't really matter his age "now". 40ish is fine for the character. 

[Patrick Bateman 3910]

Reacher was born in 1960.  Now, they have a few options.  If they want to be true to the literary work, as Lee Child is espousing now, then he'd be near 60 and you'd have to have an actor of this age.  You could have the series start in the late 90's as the books did and therefore have a small period piece and have a younger actor like a Hemsworth or Skarsgard.  Or you could simply ignore the books and place him in the current period but have him at the age of his first book at 36/37 and therefore born in 1980ish.

 

 

[bamachine 1230]

^You must have lived through the 70's to be a true badass.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8815]

hey.....thats our sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

she a good kisser?

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4968]

Jean Claude Van Damme?

[Gil Bang 25905]

13 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Reacher was born in 1960.  Now, they have a few options.  If they want to be true to the literary work, as Lee Child is espousing now, then he'd be near 60 and you'd have to have an actor of this age.  You could have the series start in the late 90's as the books did and therefore have a small period piece and have a younger actor like a Hemsworth or Skarsgard.  Or you could simply ignore the books and place him in the current period but have him at the age of his first book at 36/37 and therefore born in 1980ish.

 

 

Same issues "Bosch" and  "Longmire" had.  The main character  of both of those were Vietnam vets (or "characters" in the case of Longmire...both Walt and Henry) .  They just ignored that aspect for Longmire, and made Bosch an Iraq vet instead. 

[HiggyBaby 2523]

Looking forward to a properly cast series.

[HiggyBaby 2523]

Always thought it better a series anyways. They can borrow from lots of material a la Bosch and keep it rolling.

[Parliament 14157]

Same issues "Bosch" and  "Longmire" had.  The main character  of both of those were Vietnam vets (or "characters" in the case of Longmire...both Walt and Henry) .  They just ignored that aspect for Longmire, and made Bosch an Iraq vet instead. 

Do that. Plenty of modern storylines that would match up with the books.

[Underdog 28491]

On 11/15/2018 at 11:56 AM, pepper brooks said:

I nominate the dude who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy, or maybe Liev Schriever.  

 

I also think Cruz did a fine job as Reacher, and enjoyed both movies.  THat said, he was clearly mis-cast in that role.  The whole Reacher aura and mystique is physical stature, and while I think Cruz captured the essence of Reacher's personality and wit, he could obviously never bring to the screen the physical presence and intimidation so necessary to make the Reacher character feel authentic.  

Penelope?