Make Me is the 20th in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series and a good one. This time he is paired with Michelle Chang, ex-FBI and now a private investigator. I really enjoy reading about Reacher's relationship with women. The series always has strong female partners. Jack Reacher respects women for their intelligence among others attributes. Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). Reacher may lack the self-questioning complexity of Smiley or the queasy nuance of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, but Child makes his simplicity a virtue. Reacher is Jason Bourne without the Sophoclean psychology and heroic quest. Jack Reacher is a fictional protagonist of a series of novels, novellas and short stories. Make Me is the twentieth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was initially published on 8 September 2015 by Delacorte Press. The novel is written in the third person. Somewhere in the sprawling, flat, desolate Midwestern United States, Reacher arrives by train at a small town named Mother's Rest, curious as to the. Make Me is the twentieth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was originally published on September 8, 2015 by Delacorte Press in the U.S. And Bantam Press in the U.K. 1 Description 2 Plot 3 Appearances 3.1 Characters 3.2 Locations 3.3 Organizations 3.4 Weapons 3.5 Vehicles.

Some people are bound to be disappointed to hear that there will not be a Jack Reacher 3, but it does sound as though he might be coming to streaming. It won’t be Tom Cruise taking up the role of the character again though since he already has a pretty full slate with his Mission Impossible movies that don’t appear to have an end in sight and other opportunities that he’s going to take. The director of Jack Reacher did have a good time working with Cruise apparently but has admitted that Cruise was not his first choice for the role since Tom is not a big man, there’s not that much imposing about him in terms of height and girth. Reacher was meant to be someone that could cause everyone in the room to pause and wonder what was about to happen when he entered, while Cruise the type of guy that people might actually look at and wonder if he could possibly defend himself. The movies have answered that question in a big way since he did play the character rather well despite his lack of size, but it would appear that he’ll be moving on from the movies since he’ll eventually be filming a movie in space it sounds like and will be working on an R-rated movie that sounds as though it will be something well beyond what he normally does.

There might be folks wondering just what this could be since Cruise has done quite a bit in his career, but it does sound as though he’s going to be taking on a pretty hardcore role that will make people sit up and pay attention. As of yet, there’s not a lot of information on the projects he has upcoming, but his time as Reacher is pretty well done it feels like since by the time he manages to get some free time it might be that he’ll have aged out or no longer be interested. Right now it’s easy to look at Cruise as someone that is going to keep working until something puts him down or until he’s simply too old to keep taking the risks and performing the stunts that he’s so well-known for. His return to Top Gun was embraced by a lot of people, and the idea of shooting a movie in space is already putting some folks into a tizzy, but wondering when, or if, he’ll ever slow down is something that a lot of people have spoken of, but haven’t really answered in a definitive manner. The guy just appears to have no quit in him, even when he’s injured and has to take a few weeks to heal up. Ever since he became the producer of his own movies he’s been taking on more and more stuntwork and has managed to bang his body up pretty good at times when trying to do something exceedingly dangerous. One way or another his body is going to give out eventually since the guy is getting older, and eventually roles such as Jack Reacher and Ethan Hunt are going to be a little bit beyond him.

But the day on which the torch is to be passed is still a ways off as one can easily guess since Cruise isn’t ready to stop just yet, and he’s definitely not going to take a seat at this time since he’s still one of the most popular action stars in the movies today. Such a hard-won role is something that many would obviously do anything to hold onto since it’s a badge of experience and something that shows that he’s done the work and been primed and ready to hold onto his reputation as he continues to push forward in a constant attempt to wow the audience and give them something that they’ve seen before, but in a different manner that a lot of people might agree has been intriguing so far. It does feel as though Mission: Impossible should probably end after a while, but at this time that doesn’t appear to be the plan. One has to wonder if Cruise and those in charge are looking for a successful heir to Ethan Hunt or if they’re simply trying to push things as far as they can go before Cruise finally ages out. If that’s the case then there could be a few more MI movies coming, which would be hard to deal with for a few reasons, namely the idea that each villain has to get worse and worse and tougher and tougher, and it’s reasonable to think that at some point there’s going to be a villain that even Ethan Hunt won’t be able to take on.

As far as Jack Reacher goes it sounds as though Cruise is done, but we’ll be seeing someone else take the role eventually.

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. But after a disappointing 2016 follow-up Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the film series stalled. 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.

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. In the books, the hulking 6' 5” and 250 lb. 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.

But 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.

During 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. '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. We were fully ready to lean into that.'

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Despite McQuarrie and Cruise's big plans to adhere more closely to the books in a third film, Child opted to take his character's live-action future in a different direction — one that would include an actor who more accurately matched the physical description of Reacher. In a wide-ranging November 2019 interview with The Sunday Times, Child opened up about why it was time for Cruise to hang up Reacher's boots and let someone else have a go at playing the famed ex-military man.

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. 'Cruise was reluctant. He had his own investment in it, he was gonna argue against it,' he said. 'It sounds extremely patronizing but I think it's good for him. He's too old for this stuff. He's 57, he needs to move on, transition to being a character actor. He could get another 20 years out of it. He has the talent. He's a terrific guy, very considerate, good fun.'

In addition to his age, Cruise is also small in stature. The now 58-year-old is just 5' 7” tall, which is a far cry from the larger than life figure Reacher strikes in the books. Still, Cruise is a hands on action movie star who does his own stunts and is heavily involved on the creative side of his films, so what he lacked in size, he surely made up for in passion where the Jack Reacher franchise is concerned.

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While the Jack Reacher movies appear to be over for now, the character is getting a small screen reboot courtesy of Amazon Studios. The streamer has ordered a new series based on the books, which is set to begin filming in Toronto in April 2021, according to BlogTO. Unlike the films, the show will star an actor who matches up with Child's descriptions in the books perfectly: The 6' 4” Titans star Alan Ritchson.

At this stage, not much is known about the Amazon series, aside from the fact that it has Child's stamp of approval. When the news of the series was first announced in January 2020, the author issued a statement, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, that read, 'It's been great so far, but really, the fun starts here. By now I know these guys, and Reacher is in the perfect hands, believe me.'

Season 1 of Jack Reacher is set to focus on the first book in the long-running series, The Killing Floor. In the book, Reacher visits a small town in Georgia to investigate a cold case, but he quickly ends up being arrested himself. It's a dark introduction to the character's world that's full of action sequences that are sure to finally give readers the R-rated Reacher action they crave — just minus Cruise and director McQuarrie.