Christopher McQuarrie's 'One Shot' Wants Tom Cruise to Star

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Director of the upcoming film One Shot, Christopher McQuarrie, is a name that’s been around Hollywood for quite a while, though he’s not yet household. Primarily he has worked as a screenwriter on things like The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie, but he also directed the 2000 film The Way of the Gun.

This new project he’s working on will be an adaptation of a pretty popular novel by Lee Child of the same name. Child’s official website describes the book by saying, “There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska … and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can’t let go.”

While it’s not known who might play the role of Reacher, Deadline Brookfield is reporting that Tom Cruise is in negotiations to play a small role as the Reacher character’s driver. 

Okay, no, that was a lie. Cruise is in negotiations for the starring role. Duh. I haven’t read these books myself, but word on the street is that a lot of fans of the Jack Reacher character are probably going to be up in arms about the possible Cruise casting, because Reacher is known for his gigantic size. 

Dude is like 6’5” and 250 lbs. It doesn’t really make much sense that they’d cast the world’s most handsome midget in the role. Despite the physical disparity, however, Child has gone on record as supporting the decision to cast Cruise. He says, “Reacher’s size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way.” Yeah, not really; sounds like a pretty big cop out to me. 

More likely Cruise’s brand name represents an unstoppable force of box-office dollars that Child and company are hoping to generate. Are there any fans of the Jack Reacher books out there on this site? Please feel free to use the comment section to spew hate.