Thought I'd post this for anyone who likes to see..

[Little Star]

mystery books that have been made into movies. Hope I'm not the only one. lol!!

I posted this in the TV Chat Group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=267x7584

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I keep waiting for the Jack Reacher books to come out as movies

keep reading that deals have been made, but have not heard of them being out.

[Little Star]

2. I want to see them too. July 17, 2011 NY Times says that...

Tom Cruise Agrees to Play Jack Reacher. The movie is scheduled to begin filming this fall maybe it already has? I'm not much of a Tom Cruise fan but I'll still go see it because of the books.

Here is the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/movies/tom-cruise-agrees-to-play-jack-reacher.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. oh good god....yechhh....

Reacher is 6'5", blond, blue eyes, in his late 30's, lean, and very intelligent.
They could not find any other actor over 5'7"???? ( Cruise's height)

I may just stick to the books, halfway thru the series.

[Old Codger]

4. No way

I have read all of them to date and there is no way I would see a movie on them with cruise as Reacher.... way too short just for starters.... I cannot think of anyone that could do the job, maybe The Rock.... But I still most likely would not go to the flick for it...

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Not only too short, but too...smarmy...

ok, the filmed Reacher does not have to be 6'5"...but at least 6 would do.

Apparently Childs is happy with the choice.

I am not, will pass on the movie.

Remember the good ole days when Connery was such a good Bond?

[Old Codger]

6. Agree

Almost anyone besides cruise.... but I don't go to movies much anyway and almost without fail any movie that was made from a book that I have read turns out to be a total waste of time, never get close to what I imagine is real from the book....

[SheilaT]

7. Oh, geez. Tom Cruise?

Meryl Streep would be a better choice. She can at least act.

They'd actually be far better off finding a relative unknown whose physical appearance is at least in the ballpark. There is a reason the author made Reacher very big and tall and strong. Many, many times his sheer physical size and strength are crucial in what happens.

Tom Cruise? I no longer see movies with him because I am sufficiently opposed to Scientology and all the other garbage that man espouses.

[MaineDem]

8. With him in the lead role I will never watch that film.

I love Reacher and Tom Cruise just isn't even close.

[Zoigal]

9. No way, Cruise as Reacher...Certainly a turn off for me.

Will stick with reading the books.....z

[pitohui]

10. hmmm...anyone here remember ann rice?

she screamed yelled kicked and bitched to stop tom cruise from being cast in her film "interview with a vampire" but writers don't get to pick the actors and at the end of the day, cruise was cast as lestat -- and he out performed her expectations and the expectations of everyone in new orleans -- he did a great job

he's a good actor, he is an understated actor, and he has some unpopular personal beliefs/personal lifestyle but he lets himself take the role and do the job

what's filmic is not the same as what goes over in a book, and i have no reason to believe that tom cruise can't do action/adventure -- yes, the mission impossible movies are beyond boring but he's done many other quirky films such as "minority report" that involve action -- if the director is right, he can do this

if your film really isn't any good unless your star is a 6 foot 4 macho man guess what there's a million macho films we don't need any more