Who would you have casted for Jack Reacher
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chris_hall11 — 12 years ago(October 25, 2013 01:57 PM)
Don't make me laugh! Cruise may be small, but he at least has the acting ability to pull off the dark, mysterious personality of reacher. The rock is a terrible actor, and far too bulky to play reacher. He's meant to be tall, not a steroid head!!
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smoko — 11 years ago(November 08, 2014 01:56 PM)
@qwdzx
Bane appeared physically imposing because of the way he was filmed.
I think Tom Hardy's physique also had something to do with it. Anyways, they could've filmed him the same way for
Jack Reacher
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cranberry_juice — 11 years ago(November 08, 2014 07:56 PM)
Nah, Cruise is 5'6", way short for a guy, whereas Hardy is average height, and he looked huge in Lawless. I think Hardy would have been interesting as Jack Reacher.
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cranberry_juice — 11 years ago(November 11, 2014 06:54 AM)
The site doesn't physically measure them so how would they know? The point is not their actual heights, but how different they look. Tom Cruise looks shorter than most women on the red carpet, whereas Hardy looks normal, he's looks taller than Anne Hathaway in DKR events, who is a pretty tall girl. It seems like it would be easier/more believable to have Hardy in this role since the description calls for a big guy, that's all I'm saying. (And I did enjoy Cruise in the role).
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main-alanpaul7-441-373786 — 12 years ago(November 02, 2013 06:50 PM)
I'm a huge fan of the books and my 1ST choice for Reacher has always been Adam Baldwin, he's the right height and build and has spent over 30 years playing similar characters both on tv and in movies. He may not be a big name star but he is known and has a very large following. Kevin Durand has always been my 2nd choice for the role for similar reasons to Baldwin.
I could of also excepted David Morse in the role if he was a little younger.
If they were to cast a younger actor then I would go for Daniel Cudmore, I think he has the potential to make a great Reacher, like Baldwin, Durand and Morse he has the height and build height and at 32 he could theoretically play him continuously through the years instead of different actor like Jack Ryan. -
Kenicx — 12 years ago(February 16, 2014 04:07 PM)
Vinnie Jones (Sphinx in Gone in 60 Seconds) was the first person I mentally pictured when reading the books.
Then, after watching the Ray Donovan show, I really think Liev Schreiber could really pull it off..
Having never read the books before watching the movie, I thought it was great and TX did a good job. Having read the series now, I still think he did a good job but was obviously physically miscast.
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Beauq81 — 12 years ago(February 24, 2014 04:52 PM)
I mentioned this in another thread - visually, younger Dolph Lundgren is just like Reacher in the books: 6'5", lean, muscular, blonde, blue eyes, good looking, but not really His acting would have been questionable.
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JustJohnny — 12 years ago(February 25, 2014 08:50 PM)
One possibility is that this series turns out like the many movies based on Tom Clancy books where the character of Jack Ryan ended up being played by several actors. We could end up seeing a few different actors as Reacher.