F.A.O. Jack Reacher fans

[paddywak]

What do you think of this Idea
http://www.moviefone....jack-reacher-in-film/

[chrissa1]

Hm, might be hard to imagine but I'd give it a try.

[paddywak]

He's a good enough actor, but he just doesn't fit with how I imagine Jack, still we'll have to wait and see

[shaneystar2]

Oh noooo. No way . He's nothing like how I imagine Jack Reacher to be .
Hugh Jackman with a buzz cut gets my vote .

[starone]

Hope they find someone a bit more credible than that. I have read all the Jack Reacher books and can't imagine anyone as short as that playing him. He is larger than life, I admit, and wonders can be done with trick photography and of course, the way one imagines someone in a book can be quite different in a film. I remember Alan Ladd, who I believe was 5ft 5in and his leading ladies had to stand in the gutter when he embraced them so that he would look taller than them. Also there was that detective who was supposed to be paralysed except for one finger, or something like that (sorry forgotten his name). I never for one minute pictured him as a black man, but there you go, the bloke who did it was excellent (and black).

[chrissa1]

What about George Clooney? Lincoln Rhyme Starbuckone.

[bednobs]

no, no no. When ever i picture jack, he sort of looks like deperate dan without the hat

[chrissa1]

and a huge chin bednobs.

[hc4361]

Shame David Rasche isn't a bit younger. He was born to play Jack Reacher.

[paddywak]

That's the thing bednobs, however you look at it Jack is BIG, and five feet blob just doesn't cut it

[chrissa1]

Agreed.

[Quizmonster]

As Andy will doubtless confirm when he finds this thread, I said months ago on another Jack Reacher thread that the very LAST actor who should ever be chosen to play the part is Tom Cruise. For crying out loud, in every book, he is described as a modern-day Arnold Schwarzenegger! A classic example was the one - borrowed from Clive Anderson - in which a lady-friend said he was something along the lines of "like a six-foot condom stuffed with walnuts"!
I certainly won't be watching any such film.

[starone]

Thanks Chrissa - memory not as good as it was. Lincoln Rhyme - you would think I would have remembered a peculiar name like that.

[bednobs]

clive anderson is "like a six-foot condom stuffed with walnuts"! ???

[Quizmonster]

You may not have noticed, Bednobs, but the phrase referring to Clive Anderson was in parenthesis, a pair of dashes one either side, so the 'he' that followed was clearly NOT a reference to the said Clive, but to the 'he' of the earlier 'he is described'!
I was writing about descriptions of Reacher and gave a classic example of one such description; namely, the condom/walnuts one offered by a Reacher girlfriend.

[jno]

Quizmonster, we already have a modern-day Arnold Schwarzenegger - he's Arnold Schwarzenegger! Poor chap isn't dead yet (just in some disgrace).

[Chickadee]

Needs someone with the build of a young Arnie or even The Rock, not Tom Cruise!!

[chrissa1]

That's you told bednobs. Lol.

[bednobs]

sorry i just didn't get why clive anderson was mentioned in the context of JR

[Quizmonster]

I meant of course to say Clive James in my responses above, not Clive Anderson, so I apologise for that error.

Quite, Jno, I know he isn't dead, but I can't imagine anyone will offer him a part as Reacher at his age; hence my use of modern-day. I meant current as opposed to past actors.

[Quizmonster]

Bednobs, the reason I mentioned Clive, albeit the wrong one, was that HE was first to use the condom/walnuts description, so the one by Lee Child was a teensy bit of plagiarism.