Aquaintances of mine who're fans of (or at least familiar with) Lee Childs' "Jack Reacher" books are, I'm given to understand, immensely unhappy with the casting of Tom Cruise as the lead in Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of "One Shot," the first official movie adaptation of the series about a former Military Police Major turned ass-kicking vigilante drifter; possibly because Reacher is described as a 6'5 heavily-built hardass and Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise.
I doubt the following news will necessarily change their minds, as Cruise still sounds fairly miscast, but the film has definitely jumped to the top of the hardcore film-geek must-see list: Variety reports that legendary director Werner Herzog has signed on to ACT in the film as the main bad guy. Holy Shit!
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