Cinemystery: No Sequel Likely for Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

We haven't (yet) seen Jack Reacher, adapted from Lee Child's novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise as the titular character. But, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it may be our "one shot" (hah!) to see Cruise play Reacher as the studio — Paramount — seems unwilling to make a sequel, based on the box office results to date: about $75 million here in the US and $80 million in the international markets where it is already playing. Apparently, the trigger for sequel discussions is $250 million in total, which sources say is really unlikely … though not impossible given that it hasn't been released in several major markets yet. (It opens in Korea later this week, Japan on February 1st, and China on February 16th.)

We don't have a release date for the film on DVD/Blu-ray, but you can read more about the book from which the screenplay was adapted below.

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One Shot
Lee Child
A Jack Reacher Thriller (9th in series)

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in — no phone, no address, no commitments — ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, Reacher's arrival will change everything — about a case that isn't what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot — and by doing so give Jack Reacher one shot at the truth …

The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away — point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr's own words, he understands. And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best.

Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot …