November 15, 20187 yr 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
November 15, 20187 yr You mean like an actual big guy that doesn’t have a girly body. You know like the original material called for.
November 15, 20187 yr 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?
November 15, 20187 yr 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. Edited November 15, 20187 yr by pepper brooks
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 15, 20187 yr Author 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?
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 15, 20187 yr 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 Edited November 15, 20187 yr by Vito Andolini
November 15, 20187 yr 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.
November 16, 20187 yr 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?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
November 16, 20187 yr Is there a young Ray Stevenson around?Thing is, Reacher is probably 50 by now. So Ray Stevenson would work.
November 16, 20187 yr 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
November 16, 20187 yr Author 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.
November 16, 20187 yr 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.
November 16, 20187 yr Author 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.
November 22, 20187 yr Always thought it better a series anyways. They can borrow from lots of material a la Bosch and keep it rolling.
November 22, 20187 yr 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.
November 22, 20187 yr 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?
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