Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

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randlemarcus

13,507 posts

230 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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As above, film was fine, it might not be the mental image (or, to be fair, precise written description by the author) of Reacher, but I suspect your casting options are limited when you have a half-pint actor who funds the film biggrin

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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randlemarcus said:
As above, film was fine, it might not be the mental image (or, to be fair, precise written description by the author) of Reacher, but I suspect your casting options are limited when you have a half-pint actor who funds the film biggrin
Absolutely.
All credit to Cruise for recognising the value of the franchise and snapping up the rights so early.
I think we would all cast ourselves as Reacher if we had the power to!

FiF

43,964 posts

250 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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walm said:
Vince Vaughan and that bloke from My Big Fat Greek Wedding????
You realise the Lee Child books aren't comedies right?
Are they proper actors or not? If they don't want to do it I'm sure there are others. Name one then instead of being just a sarcy git.

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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walm said:
FiF said:
I think the thing is that, at least for those who had previously read some or all of the books, the film was fine despite Cruise, however it would have been better if the title role had been cast with an actor of greater physical stature.

Names that spring to mind, Vince Vaughan, Billy Campbell, John Corbett, many other suggestions are possible. It should be someone significantly over 6 foot though.
Vince Vaughan and that bloke from My Big Fat Greek Wedding????
You realise the Lee Child books aren't comedies right?
Are Vince Vaughan films supposed to be funny?

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walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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FiF said:
Are they proper actors or not? If they don't want to do it I'm sure there are others. Name one then instead of being just a sarcy git.
Fair enough: Liev Schreiber.

FiF

43,964 posts

250 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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walm said:
FiF said:
Are they proper actors or not? If they don't want to do it I'm sure there are others. Name one then instead of being just a sarcy git.
Fair enough: Liev Schreiber.
Good suggestion. 6ft3.

See not so difficult was it?

What about Clive Owen?

Or Rory McCann? Hound from GoT? Scottish accent might need some work.

Edited by FiF on Monday 27th June 14:04

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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For something like Reacher you want a name though.

But if we waive that then I might also vote for Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Ron Perlman?

Moulder

1,463 posts

211 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Armie Hammer (6'5")? Maybe a bit young for the later books (30 now when Reacher would have been 37 at time Killing Floor was released).

MissChief

7,095 posts

167 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Pickled said:
Ron Perlman?
This. Or the guy who played the baddie in Avatar and Terra Nova. Steven someone.

The problem I have with this film is it completely misses out the setup book that comes previously. I can't remember the name but it's the short Mexican drug lord and the huge abandoned base with the bikers. It sets up the next book perfectly. I agree though, the film was decent enough. And Rosamund Pike. Always good to watch.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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I'd like to have seen Jim Caviezel as Reacher. He's 6'2" and can do "doesn't talk much, bit of a loner, heart in the right place" stood on 'is 'ead...

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...OK, he can be a little two-dimensional in some roles, but that'd suit the character perfectly. I love the books, I've been 'in' since the start, and read all of them early on in hardback form, but let's not kid ourselves that they're 'classic literature' in any form. Lee Child does what he does very well, but some of the plots are getting a bit on the 'thin' side in the later books.

Caviezel's turn as John Reese in Person Of Interest has done his character preparation for him, and makes him a shoe-in for the part of Reacher. It looks like I'm going to have to re-read this one now. I wasn't aware of this new film before I saw this thread so I'm well happy. As someone further up hinted at, the books read as though they've been written with easy adaptation to screenplay in mind, so it's a shame that more of them haven't been produced as movies. Yet...

Edited by yellowjack on Monday 27th June 15:57

zebra

4,555 posts

213 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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walm said:
For something like Reacher you want a name though.

But if we waive that then I might also vote for Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Could have seen Tom Hardy carrying it off.

MissChief

7,095 posts

167 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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zebra said:
walm said:
For something like Reacher you want a name though.

But if we waive that then I might also vote for Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Could have seen Tom Hardy carrying it off.
Not old enough. he needs to be very late thirties, more likely mid forties to carry it off.

Steven Lang is the guy. He was in Into the Badlands as well.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Dean MOrgan is a bit of a name. He's a good actor too, he's probably my fave choice mentioned.

I think I need to rewatch this first one as I have fond memories of it.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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First one was brilliant can watch it over and over

Mothersruin

8,573 posts

98 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Josh Holloway would have been a good Reacher.

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Ronnie Pickering would have been ideal

MissChief said:
Pickled said:
Ron Perlman?
This. Or the guy who played the baddie in Avatar and Terra Nova. Steven someone.

The problem I have with this film is it completely misses out the setup book that comes previously. I can't remember the name but it's the short Mexican drug lord and the huge abandoned base with the bikers. It sets up the next book perfectly. I agree though, the film was decent enough. And Rosamund Pike. Always good to watch.
Stephen Lang. Yes, he'd look the part, but he and Ron Perlman are too old really. They're both around their mid-sixties.

Vince Vaughn is 6'5" and he can certainly act. He's done serious stuff before, like True Detective and the remake of Psycho, where he played Norman Bates. He's about the right age too: 46.

Liev Schreiber would be great too.


Tom Cruise co-owns the production company though, so he gets to pick I guess.

cerbfan

1,159 posts

226 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Paddy Considine would have been good, does intimidation very well (see Dead Mans Shoes as an example)

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Friday 12th August 2016
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Some dreadful suggestions for Reacher here (JUST being big isn't enough...), but Jim Cavaziel was a decent suggestion as he's very much how I picture Reacher (if a little too handsome) and he's very good in a Reacher-esque role in Person Of Interest.

That said, I'm looking forward to the new Cruise/Reacher film - For me the size thing isn't that important (except as a negative - He's hard not to spot, for example) and I think Cruise captured many of his attributes very well.

Funnily enough One Shot was the first Reacher I read too. I'd got a bit tired of the books after "Personal", but I've started A Wanted Man and am really enjoying it.

What I want to know is when someone's going to bring Ben Hope to the screen! Now there's a role made for Clive Owen!

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Mothersruin

8,573 posts

98 months

Friday 12th August 2016
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Josh Holloway would have been excellent.