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Jack Reacher...

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MaxSchreck · 16/06/2011 18:53

...is to be played in the film by Tom Cruise!

What a shocking bit of miss-casting, eh?

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BarkingHarriet · 21/06/2011 21:41

No. Just no. So wrong. They may as well cast Del Boy Trotter.

Sidge · 21/06/2011 21:22

Now that is fundamentally wrong.

I mean, the earth might as well stop turning and the sun rise in the west.

It's just Not Right.

I am quite partial to Mr Eyecandy PixieCruise but not as Reacher. No no no no no no no no no.

I bloody LOVE the Reacher books, and think that it needs someone unknown to play him so as not to corrupt the image for the faithful readers!

LadyPeterWimsey · 21/06/2011 21:11

I thought the OP was going to post 'Jack Reacher ... is all mine.' which I was going to dispute heartily.

Now I am completely downcast. And will have to boycott movie.

Islagiatt · 21/06/2011 21:05

No. Absolutely not Tom Cruise. I will not allow it.

Have read every book, and agree all mostly the same - but Jack Reacher lives in my head as Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Someone make it so.

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CocktailQueen · 21/06/2011 21:01

No, no, no!!! All wrong. Reacher is 250lb, 6 foot 6, lots of scars, built like a brick shithouse yet strangely attractive - nothing like tom cruise on any front!!!!

CheerfulYank · 21/06/2011 20:57

Signed!

RunningGuerita · 21/06/2011 13:05

Signed as well!

ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/06/2011 12:13

petition signed.

Grin
paulapantsdown · 21/06/2011 11:51

www.thepetitionsite.com/1/boycott-tom-cruise-as-jack-reacher/

well I have signed a petition!
there is also another facebook page - tom cruise is not jack reacher!

CheerfulYank · 21/06/2011 11:09

There is a FB page called Kevin Durand as Jack Reacher! :)

I think "the size is just a metaphor" is just a metaphor for "I really want the money" by Mr Child. Hmm

Portofino · 21/06/2011 11:05

Kevin is MUCH more like it! Grin

Portofino · 21/06/2011 11:04

Reacher can KILL people with his hands! Tom Cruise is a weirdy wimp! He's only about half the height too. Can we start a FB petition?

This is WRONG!

paulapantsdown · 21/06/2011 11:01

Well if JR's size is just a metaphor - what is the bloody point of the books then? This makes NO SENSE!
I am seriously pissed about this actually - readers invest time, money and imagination into the JR books and the faithful readers have been debating who would be cast in any eventual film for years - and Tom Cruise the pretty midget will play him?! Really really stupid.

I have thought Kevin Durand for years, or Laurance Dellalio if they could teach him to act. Hopefully the midget will see the errors of his ways and cast someone that the people who would pay for a ticket for the film would acdtually WANT to see as Jack.

CheerfulYank · 20/06/2011 17:33

Liam Neeson is lovely but too old.

Kevin Durand, full stop. :)

See my link above. Note that he is 6'6". :o

ChaosTrulyReigns · 20/06/2011 16:23

Sorry ravenousbug - I was speed reading - didn't see your headsup.

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 20/06/2011 16:22

There's a hashtag going on Twitter -

#stopcruisebeingreacher.

Smile

I suggest Liam Neeson.

[smuggly correct]

Grin
RunningGuerita · 20/06/2011 16:19

I rarely (never) post on Mumsnet, but feel I must join in.

I love inthesticks description of books, she is spot on. They are all the same and I LOVE them. My husband makes fun of me, but he is just jealous that I have a crush on Reacher. He is the hardest man alive. (enough gushing).

Tom Cruise would ruin it, there is NO way I would see any Jack Reacher films with him playing him. End of.

Boozilla · 20/06/2011 09:33

Oh, LIKING Kevin Durand! That pic just brightened up my morning no end! Grin

CheerfulYank · 19/06/2011 04:49

Can Lee Child really do anything about it now, though? I presume he's sold the rights. We need to go higher up now.

CheerfulYank · 19/06/2011 04:49

I think Kevin Durand would do. He's 6'6'' .

BecauseImWorthIt · 18/06/2011 16:21

No - he is (like Brad Pitt) too boyish. Reacher needs someone more rugged and with much more physical presence. Not a pretty boy!

cejay · 18/06/2011 16:18

Now this may be a bit off kilter, but has anyone seen Leonardo di caprio in Blood Diamond? He was a revelation as action hero type guy. And he looks mean too. Was just a thought!
As for Tom Cruise......NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

aubergine70 · 17/06/2011 22:52

Maybe they could work some CGI magic on Tom and make him look 6'5".

ZacharyQuack · 17/06/2011 22:51

Tom Cruise?

Imagine the trouble they will have finding enough teeny-tiny actors for the rest of the cast. And they might as well reuse the Hobbit set in NZ to get everything to scale.

dyzzidi · 17/06/2011 22:45

What a crap casting. I am not a fan of TC and he does not match any of the descriptions in the books.