Lee Child’s hugely-successful Jack Reacher series could be headed to television, according to the author himself.
In conversation with John Grisham at a sold-out Royal Hall during the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Child lamented the current state of the movie industry and and the lack of opportunity tell long, arc-driven stories, and dangled the carrot that Jack Reacher maybe headed to television in the future.
“I shouldn’t really say this but since we’re in private… Maybe Jack Reacher will become a television series. Maybe on Netflix. But because Tom Cruise doesn’t act on television someone else will be playing Jack.”
Since 2012, Tom Cruise has played Reacher on the big screen in two movies.
Asked by Grisham whether the new Jack Reacher will be taller, Child replied: “You better believe it.”
A move to television and an impending search for a new actor to play Reacher means that the movie franchise is dead in the water (although there has been no confirmation from either party yet).
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