Jack Reacher Sequel

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Paramount planning for Tom Cruise's "Jack Reacher" sequel?


Published Sunday, Feb 24 2013, 05:37 GMT

Paramount and Skydance reportedly are considering a follow up to last year's Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise in the title role.

Jack Reacher follows a former US Army Military Police Corps officer who is hired to investigate a case involving a military sniper who killed random victims.




The movie also stars Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins and Robert Duvall.

Jack Reacher recently crossed the $200 million mark worldwide, which makes it the 19th hit film for Cruise, reports Deadline. The studios are apparently "figuring out" a sequel.

Cruise can be seen next in Oblivion and All You Need is Kill. The actor also has signed for a fifth instalment of his Mission Impossible franchise.

In 2011, the 50-year-old said that he will continue to make action films for a while.

He shared: "I'm just going to keep going, as long as I can do it. I love making action movies."



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Jack Reacher sequel in the works?


February 23, 2013

Tom Cruise has another global hit on his hands after his latest movie, Jack Reacher, crossed $200 million worldwide. Amazingly, this is the 19th time Cruise has achieved this, which is a record-breaking statistic and a true testament of his star-power. Now, Deadline claim that Paramount and Skydance see the Lee Child adaptation as a potential franchise, and a Jack Reacher sequel seems likely.

Here’s what Deadline had to say:

The movie cost $60 million and I am hearing that they are already figuring out the sequel at Paramount and Skydance. Studios are all about franchise building, and some take off financially on the second go-around. There are so many good Reacher books written by Child that there’s a wealth of ground to cover here.

However, there was controversy surrounding the casting of Cruise as the titular character, due to Reacher standing 6’5 inches tall and Cruise only 5’7. However any concerns were quickly quashed when it became clear that the narrative would remain faithful to the gritty source material.

Although the film only grossed $79 million at the US box-office, Jack Reacher was a critical hit that achieved the success it rightly deserved, largely thanks to Cruise’s global appeal.

Filmonic.com

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Sequel Likely As Cruise & McQuarrie’s ‘Jack Reacher’ Hits $200 Million


22 February 2013 2:30 PM, PST | The Hollywood News |

Superstar actor Tom Cruise and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie’s team-up on action-thriller, Jack Reacher, may not have been the runaway success the studios financing hoped, but today still saw the film reach an impressive worldwide gross of $200 million.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance were hoping to kick-start a new franchise featuring author Lee Child’s ex-military cop. However, despite a majority of critical praise, the film based on Child’s 9th novel, One Shot, didn’t quite reach the studios target domestically. With a budget of $60 million, Jack Reacher needed to perform well in its delayed release in Asian markets such as China and Japan, in order to move forward with a sequel.

Jack Reacher has done just that, as the film marks the 19th time a flick led by Cruise has crossed $200 million at the international box-office. An impressive feat not many others are even close to. A sequel now looks likely, »

The Hollywood News

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Of course. If it hadn't been in the cards from the beginning Cruise, McQuarrie, etc would never had mentioned it. Instead we would have gotten the "Well if there's an audience for this one blah blah blah . . ." that's the norm.

I'd love to see Persuader on the screen, even though it doesn't have a lot of "action" going on. Perhaps after Killing Floor or The Hard Way

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Why the World Needs 'Jack Reacher' Sequels



By Peter Hall May 10, 2013
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There aren't enough franchises in Hollywood geared toward adults. Sure, there are plenty that can be enjoyed by adults, but there are few that appeal directly to people who are looking for movies that are more about characters than they are special effects. Jack Reacher is that kind of movie. It's an old-school thriller with style and characters that navigate complex moral waters. It's got a tremendous cast, an impeccable director, a brilliant script, and characters you just plain want to spend more time with. However, because the movie only managed to make a mere $216.5 million in global box office, it's not on the fast track for sequels.

Yes, we live in a world where over $200 million in box office doesn't get its sequel an instant green light. Granted, there are more factors at play than just box office gross, though. It also comes down to whether or not Tom Cruise and all involved actually want to make more movies. So in case the brass at Paramount Pictures, Skydance Productions, Mutual Film Company and TC Productions are on the fence about a sequel, let's try to nudge them toward the right decision.

Thrillers are cool again. Remember when movies anchored themselves on a single mystery that had to be unraveled by just a few characters, usually lawyers, cops or private detectives? Every decade prior to the '00s was filled with great ones. Who knows what started the trend that killed the simple (relatively speaking) thriller, but over the last decade or so movies like A Few Good Men and The Firm (just to cite some other Tom Cruise hits) fell to the wayside. People wanted more ensemble-driven movies with ridiculous stakes. Having a few people racing a deadline to save a life, be it their's or another's, became too tame. In the '00s, the fate of much larger entities, often the entire world, had to hang in the balance in order to get a green light, and the movies that emerged kind of sucked. (Here's looking at you, The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure.)

But now thrillers are in. Movies like The Lincoln Lawyer, Argo and now Jack Reacher are starting to get taken seriously again, both by audiences and critics. People are once again interested in the underdog taking down the big dog, without the involvement of ludicrous explosions and inhuman feats.

People want characters. Hollywood movies have been lite on unique, well-rounded personalities for the past decade-- at least ones that didn't already have a brand on the big screen. How many franchises cropped up in recent years that drew audiences solely for a single character who wasn't a superhero? Pirates of the Caribbean is the biggest name there, and while no one would realistically expect to see Jack Reacher become that kind of international phenomenon, there's no reason the character shouldn't be as distinctly recognizable as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Of course, Reacher could head to TV (like The Lincoln Lawyer is currently doing), but where's the fun in that? There's already plenty of procedural cop shows on TV and we don't need another one. What we need are movies that offer an alternative to the mindless blockbusters that studios churn out these days. No one needs a new Jack Reacher every 12 months -- though one could easily argue that we don't need sequels as rapidly as they arrive these days, anyway -- but one every other year or so would certainly fill an adult-franchise void. So, let's make it happen, Paramount. We Jack Reacher fans will keep trying to spread the word. We'll try to build you an even bigger fan base (the books already have a ton) between now and the next one. Just please, for the love of movies that are smart, engaging and entertaining, please give us that next one.

Movies.com

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Tom Cruise Developing Jack Reacher Sequel at Paramount

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions are moving ahead with a sequel to Jack Reacher, the 2012 film that starred Tom Cruise and is based on Lee Child’s bestselling novel series. A rumor went around that the studio might be trying to squeeze in a Reacher film before Mission: Impossible 5. Paramount has denied that, but I’ve learned it’s trying to fast track another installment. This one will be based on Never Go Back, which was published earlier this fall.

The studio is out to writers; Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie adapted the first one, but is too busy prepping MI5 for a summer production start. Cruise and the studio hope McQuarrie will direct the sequel. Why are they making a sequel? The original cost around $57 million in production costs, grossed $218 million worldwide and has done well in ancillaries. Before studios got tentpole crazy, trying to launch franchises with massive-budget originals, that was exactly the kind of numbers that made studios go back for more and try to grow a franchise, particularly when there is popular source material like the Child novels.

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