I don’t know what to think.
Under the headline on the internet news story, it says: In other Cruise news, the first photos are out of Tom Cruise as the title character in the December-release film: Jack Reacher.
The character – Jack Reacher – is the renegade, justice-dealing, ex-military creation of novelist Lee Child, and having read most of the titles in the series I can tell you, Tom Cruise never once came to mind.
Maybe on screen Cruise is larger than life, but you’ve seen his actual size I’m sure. Jack Reacher is supposed to be a bear of a man. Or maybe I just read that into his description, because he is definitely one to avoid becoming crosswise with. Jack Reacher mustered out of the US Army and began traveling around the country, looking for things he had missed during his upbringing and later military life abroad.
Trouble always finds him.
Jack Reacher is such a character that I’ve recommended him to both men and women and – to date – I’ve only had a single fellow say he probably didn’t need to read any more of the series. To the rest of the many, many readers who have taken up my suggestion the books are addictive, to the point that they can’t be read quickly enough.
It is said that women want to date Jack Reacher, and men want to be him.
The author, Lee Child, writes in a visual style that makes reading the books almost the equivalent of watching a movie. Hopefully, the film will be able to capture that energy as well as Child does.
Most of the Tom Cruise movies have been entertaining to me, and if asked, I suppose I’d answer, Sure, I like Tom Cruise.
As Jack Reacher?
I’ll have to wait and see, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt at this point.
Check out the latest Jack Reacher novel The Affair, but you know – of course, you can find it at McHuston Booksellers, your Main Street book store in Broken Arrow, OK.