Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher didn't exactly set the world on fire when it opened at the tail end of 2012. Fans of Lee Child's novels were dubious of it right from the start given that Cruise doesn't exactly fit the imposing physical profile of the famously violent vigilante, and the result was a disappointing $80M domestic box office. However, the film performed much better overseas, ending with more than $200M, and early in 2013 Paramount set plans in motion for a sequel. So what's happened since then? Nothing, until now.
According to Deadline, Cruise is set to reteam with The Last Samurai director Ed Zwick on a Jack Reacher sequel. So it looks as if Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote and directed the first film and has been Cruise's most frequent collaborator (on Edge of Tomorrow and Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation), won't be returning. Richard Wenk (The Equalizer) wrote the screenplay which Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz will write, and as previously reported it will be based on the most recent Jack Reacher novel, Never Go Back. In it, Reacher revisits the Virginia headquarters of his old military unit, has dinner with the commanding officer, and ends up charged with a crime he may have committed years ago.
So it's time for Cruise to buy a new pair of lifts, and for Zwick to bone up on shooting actors from a low angle.
