In addition to his age, Cruise is also small in stature. He's a terrific guy, very considerate, good fun." He's 57, he needs to move on, transition to being a character actor. "It sounds extremely patronizing but I think it's good for him. He had his own investment in it, he was gonna argue against it," he said. The author revealed that he had a clause in his contract which would allow him to end the film franchise after just two movies, and he told The Sunday Times that he opted to exercise it after the release of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
"Tom and I were talking about, had the series continued, to take Reacher to a place where, in the post- Deadpool, post- Joker world, Reacher could have been an R-rated movie and an R-rated franchise and really fed into the brutality of those books. action hero is just as quick to use his fists as he is to use his mind to solve a problem, which often leads to some decidedly R-rated reading material.īut when it came time to adapt the books for the big screen, Hollywood opted for a toned down, PG-13 version of the character, which is something director Christopher McQuarrie had hoped to rectify in a third Jack Reacher film before it became clear that one would never come to fruition.ĭuring a July 2020 interview with Empire, McQuarrie revealed that he and Cruise had hoped the third film in the franchise could transition into darker territory. In the books, the hulking 6' 5” and 250 lb. So far, Child has written 25 books (including prequels and spinoffs) involving the ex-Army investigator Jack Reacher, who never seems to fail at finding a twisted conspiracy to unravel. However, had it moved forward, Jack Reacher 3 would have been a totally different film compared to its predecessors, and one that would have been more faithful to Lee Child's successful book series, on which the films are based. But after a disappointing 2016 follow-up Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the film series stalled. In 2012, Tom Cruise's first Jack Reacher film earned $218 million at the worldwide box office, and seemed poised to launch the actor's next successful franchise.