Jack Reacher could be making a move from the big to small screen. Lee Child, whose book series was turned into a pair of Paramount movies starring Tom Cruise, said today that there is a deal in place to turn the novels into a TV series.
2012’s Jack Reacher and 2016’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back were produced by Skydance and Cruise/Wagner and distributed by Paramount. According to Child, there will be no more movies with Cruise and he also won’t star in the potential TV series but the potential series would be produced by Skydance Television and Paramount Television.
According to Child, it would be toplined by a new actor more befitting the imposing, burly character he created in his books. The casting of Cruise was met with some criticism of the fans of the books because he didn’t really embody the way the character was described. Child praised Cruise’s acting chops but stated that “Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality,” noting that the actor’s size threw off his some of his core readers who saw the films.
Skydance TV and Paramount TV recently teamed up to successfully reboot as a TV series with a new actor another famous book series that already had been made into action movies, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan for Amazon.
