Personally, I blame the producer, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. Even in his youth, his physical appearance was likened to that of a “bulked-up greyhound”. Throw in a patchwork of scars picked up over a lifetime of conflicts and a face that looked like it had been chipped out of rock by a sculptor who had ability but not much time, and you start to get a very clear picture of the man. He’s described as being 6’5” tall, 250 lbs, and a total mesomorph with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, a chest like a suit of NFL armour, biceps like basketballs, and subcutaneous fat like a Kleenex tissue. Hit Them Fast, Hit Them Hard, And Hit Them A Lotįirst off, Reacher is big…very big. They all centred around the lead character Jack Reacher. There were, however, a few things that the readers felt were inviolable. Nothing that requires enormous leaps of imagination. No bizarre spacecraft circling far-off planets with clouds of nitric acid and sulphur-based life forms. They also have the redeeming feature of being eminently filmable. They are exciting, well paced, well plotted, action packed thrillers. Having read all of those forty-plus stories…I can understand why. Unsurprisingly, there would eventually be someone starting to sniff around and murmuring words like “film adaptation”.
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