Jack Reacher writer Lee Little one has stated casting Tom Cruise within the movie adaptation was a “mistake” resulting from his lack of “physicality”.
Cruise performed the vigilante former US Military army policeman within the 2012 movie model of Little one’s novels, and its 2016 sequel Jack Reacher: By no means Go Again.
The casting proved controversial on the time, because of the authentic character being described as being “extraordinarily broad”, “blond” and “standing at 6’5””. Cruise is 5’7” and was thought of by many followers of the books to not be an applicable selection for the function.
In a brand new interview with Metro, Little one spoke about Cruise’s involvement within the movies whereas selling the third season of the Amazon Prime Video sequence Reacher. “In one of many Tom Cruise motion pictures, there’s a line the place the detective goes to the motel and says, ‘I’m on the lookout for a man who may kill somebody with one punch,’ they usually level to Tom Cruise, which isn’t actually all that believable,” he stated.
Evaluating him to Alan Ritchson, who performs the character in Reacher, he continued: “Lastly, we’ve integrated the physicality in a manner that basically matches the character. The present is Reacher. He carries the entire thing. It needs to be proper. And particularly after the pushback we received from Cruise, I assumed, ‘That is completely essential now. We will’t make two errors. It was completely vital and Alan was excellent.”
Little one was fast to make clear that working with Cruise was a “pleasure and privilege”, including: “I really like Tom. He’s an excellent man, a wise particular person, and we had been good pals. We labored collectively very effectively.’
The author additionally spoke concerning the controversy in 2022, when he defined that he thought “the dimensions factor is vital to sure components of the narrative”.
The third season of Reacher launched on Prime Video on Thursday (February 20), with episodes premiering each week up till the ultimate instalment on March 27.
Elsewhere, footage from Cruise’s upcoming movie Mission: Unattainable – The Remaining Reckoning premiered throughout the 2025 Tremendous Bowl. It confirmed Cruise’s Ethan Hunt performing a number of death-defying stunts and various throwbacks to scenes from earlier entries within the franchise.