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Who should play Jack Reacher?

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mmack · 16/06/2015 22:47

Inspired by the James Bond thread. If anyone was to make another Jack Reacher film then who should play him? 15 years ago it would have been Liam Neeson. I can't think of anyone suitable now.

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MissMuffetisin · 16/06/2015 22:49

I still think Liam Neeson ! He's the only one I can think of tall enough

Wearit · 16/06/2015 22:49

Clive Owen ????

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mmack · 16/06/2015 22:56

I think Clive Owen is a bit dark for Jack Reacher but if they ever made a film of the John Connolly books he could be a contender for Charlie Parker.

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hellsbells99 · 16/06/2015 23:00

Certainly not Tom Cruise!!!

TheBobbinIsWound · 16/06/2015 23:03

Jason Statham! Smile

Moln · 16/06/2015 23:06

Anyone, absolutely anyone apart from Tom Crusie, and I mean anyone, even Tom Hanks.

Smurfingreat · 16/06/2015 23:08

Clive Owen would be great, but has anyone considered Christopher Meloni from SVU. Many drunken conversations with friends and all agree he would be fab.

NealCaffreysHat · 16/06/2015 23:09

Tommy Lee Jones.

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LineRunner · 16/06/2015 23:12

Damien Lewis
Daniel Craig

One of them will be free.

NoUseForAName · 16/06/2015 23:14

Liev schrieber (I think that's how you spell his name) he played wolverines brother in xmen

CocktailQueen · 16/06/2015 23:15

Hm, Daniel Craig might work. Tom cruise? Bloody awful.

PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 16/06/2015 23:17

The actor who plays Phoebe's policeman boyfriend in Friends.

ceeveebee · 16/06/2015 23:19

Tom Hardy

dangerrabbit · 16/06/2015 23:24

Alexander Rhodes.

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mmack · 16/06/2015 23:24

Liev Schrieber is a very good suggestion. Jack Reacher is not smug so Tom Cruise and Damien Lewis are automatically excluded.

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mmack · 16/06/2015 23:26

I love Jason Statham as well but accents are not his strong point.

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BitterChocolate · 16/06/2015 23:28

Philip Winchester (from Strike Force).

tribpot · 16/06/2015 23:32

Loved the Tom Hanks suggestion and I quite agree. Literally anyone other than Cruise. Philip Seymour Hoffman in character as Truman Capote would have been better than Cruise. In fact Hoffman was so amazing in everything he could have been a fantastic Reacher despite being - ahem - unsimilar physically. No more so than pocket-sized Tommy mind you.

I know: Woody Allen.

hunibuni · 16/06/2015 23:33

Jim Cavaziel. If anyone has watched Person of Interest, Reece is what I think Reacher would be like. That and he's vair easy on the eyes Wink

laracroft2001 · 16/06/2015 23:38

Great shout smurfing!

ApplesinmyPocket · 16/06/2015 23:48

"Jim Cavaziel. If anyone has watched Person of Interest, Reece is what I think Reacher would be like."

Was just coming on to say the same. Has to be him!

Who should play Jack Reacher?
PiggyBeekman · 16/06/2015 23:50

Hugh Jackman

emwithme · 17/06/2015 00:01

Daniel Craig.

How the fuck they thought Tom Cruise was a good fit I don't know shows they never read the fucking books

Whiskwarrior · 17/06/2015 00:05

Peter Crouch, surely!

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