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‘Jack Reacher’ Sequel Might Have Its Director

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By Matt Cummings
Read on to find out who is negotiations to direct the Tom Cruise follow-up.

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Actor Tom Cruise began a well-documented, nearly phoenix resurgence in his career in 2011, with the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. The movie featured a now-famous stunt of Cruise scaling the Burj Khalifa tower in Mumbai. And while that film ended making over $209m domestically, Cruise's follow-up Jack Reacher made only a modest $218.3m worldwide and just over $80m domestically, counting as something as a failure. But the film was well-received, with Writer/Director Christopher McQuarrie crafting a well-made character study, based on the Lee Child novel series.

And while Cruise, Paramount, and Skydance have been quietly developing a script for the follow-up, the results have apparently been not to their liking. Today, we learned that both Paramount and Skydance are in negotiations to have Richard Wenk's script for Jack Reacher 2 re-written, hoping to land The Last Samurai team of Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. According to Deadline, the plan is to have Zwick direct the sequel, with Cruise already agreeing to return. The sequel will be based on the 2013 Child book Never Go Back. In it, Reacher is caught up in his own investigation when he loses his memory after beating someone up and fathering a child with a woman.

McQuarrie will stay on and executive produce the sequel with Cruise. Zwick and Herskovitz also wrote the Anne Hathaway/Jake Gyllenhaal drama Love And Other Drugs.

Source: Deadline

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