{"id":84566,"date":"2018-11-19T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=84566"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:32:00","slug":"new-jack-reacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/new-jack-reacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Child announces search for new Jack Reacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Jack Reacher TV show as been announced!<\/strong><\/p>\n

After playing the beloved character in two movies, Tom Cruise is retiring as Jack Reacher.<\/p>\n

Bestselling author Lee Child, currently in Australia to promote the 23rd Jack Reacher novel (Past Tense<\/em><\/a>), has announced that there will be no third Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise. Instead, the Jack Reacher series is set to be adapted for TV, with a new actor in the main role.<\/p>\n

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This news has of course prompted a wave of jokes about Tom Cruises’ height. There was some fan outrage back in 2011 when Cruise was cast in the role of Jack Reacher. Famous for his intimidating size, Reacher is written to to be 6 foot 5 with “fists like Thanksgiving turkeys”.<\/p>\n

Many fans considered Tom Cruise to be a bad choice for Jack Reacher, insisting that he was too short. (It also must be said that Tom Cruise seems to posses average sized human hands which bear no visible resemblance to Thanksgiving Turkeys.)<\/p>\n

During an event yesterday at The Rook in Sydney (pictured below) , Lee Child prompted a wave of applause from fans when he announced he would endeavor to cast “the biggest motherf***er we can find” to play Jack Reacher in the upcoming TV show.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, many fans believe the perfect choice has already been found in Duncan Monroe – Australia’s own winner of the Jack Reacher Look-alike competition (pictured above in conversation with Lee Child.)<\/p>\n

News of the new Jack Reacher TV show was first announced on BBC radio Manchester<\/p>\n

“I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He\u2019s a really, really nice guy. We had a lot of fun and he works really hard and he takes it really seriously … but ultimately the readers are right: the size of Reacher is really, really important and it\u2019s a big component of who he is.\u201d – Lee Child<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Child went on to say that Jack Reacher is such a large, intimidating presence that he makes people nervous simply by walking into a room, and that Tom Cruise – despite his great talent – simply doesn’t possess that physicality.<\/p>\n

After the disappointment expressed by fans the last time Jack Reacher was adapted for the screen, Lee Child is encouraging people help find the next Reacher.<\/p>\n

“I want all those readers who were upset about Tom Cruise to help me out. Participate in choosing the right actor for the TV series. We\u2019re rebooting and starting over and we\u2019re going to try and find the perfect guy.” – Lee Child<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It has been 21 years since the first Jack Reacher novel (The Killing Floor<\/em><\/a>) was published. In that time Lee Child has grown to be one of the highest selling authors in the world. It is now estimated that a Jack Reacher book is sold to someone, somewhere in the world every 9 seconds.<\/p>\n

Though there is no date announced for when the new TV show is expected to air, given the passionate fan base and enduring popularity of Lee Child’s books it’s guaranteed to be a massive success.<\/p>\n

Past Tense was published on the 5th of November 2018 and is available to order now from Booktopia.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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A new Jack Reacher TV show as been announced! After playing the beloved character in two movies, Tom Cruise is retiring as Jack Reacher. Bestselling author Lee Child, currently in Australia to promote the 23rd Jack Reacher novel (Past Tense), has announced that there will be no third Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise. Instead, the Jack Reacher series is set to be adapted for TV, with a new actor in the main role. This news has of course prompted a wave of jokes about Tom Cruises’ height. There was some fan outrage back in 2011 when Cruise was cast in the role of Jack Reacher. Famous for his intimidating size, Reacher is written to to be 6 foot 5 with “fists like Thanksgiving turkeys”. Many fans considered Tom Cruise to be a bad choice for Jack Reacher, insisting that he was too short. (It also must be said that Tom Cruise seems to posses average sized human hands which bear no visible resemblance to Thanksgiving Turkeys.) During an event yesterday at The Rook in Sydney (pictured below) , Lee Child prompted a wave of applause from fans when he announced he would endeavor to cast “the biggest motherf***er we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":84573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[8084,7290,2670,3178,9393,9394,6199,7492,8537],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Social-lee-child.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84566"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84875,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566\/revisions\/84875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}