Which explains two things: One: that he said yes to my proposal. He is, more than anyone I can think of, a pure writer, with a degree zero style. He has always struck me as a blessed (and I don’t mean by that successful) and exemplary incarnation of what Borges called “the spirit of literature”. The reality is he was the first writer I thought of. It’s probably a defensive reflex gesture, but I sometimes like to joke that, when I had this crazy idea of writing a book about a novelist working on a story from beginning to end, I first contacted Amis/Tartt/Franzen/Houellebecq and when they were unavailable I only asked Lee Child as a desperate last resort. Because he, and I, had a fair idea that the name Jack Reacher was going to come up somewhere in this, his 20th novel in the series. Whereas he, in contrast, embraces the feeling of just falling off a cliff into the void and relying on some kind of miraculous soft landing. The question is: Why? I mean, most of us like to have some kind of idea where we are heading, roughly, a hypothesis at least to guide us, even if we are not sticking maps on the wall and suchlike. And the odd thing is he likes it that way. He has no idea what he is doing or where he is going. But I can put my hand on heart and say, having been there, and watched him at work, that Lee Child is fundamentally clueless when he starts writing.
Nobody really believes him when he says it. Here he describes Child’s bold approach to writing. It’s a gritty and gripping story, and will make for a solid 8-episode season, if they treat the material right.Andy Martin spent much of the past year with author Lee Child as he wrote the 20th novel in his Jack Reacher series. The initial season will be based on The Killing Floor, the first book in the Reacher book series, published in 1997. Jack Reacher begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video on February 4. But that’s the one element about this new Jack Reacher trailer that made me say, “Eh, so close, but…” The rest looked really good. Of course, I understand that this is a Hollywood project, and people will tune in for an Abercrombie-perfect leading man as opposed to the hulk that stomps through Lee Childs’ novels. But he’s beaten up and broken, with a disjointed nose that has been decimated far too often in fistfights and scars (from those same encounters) all over his rugged skin. Not that Jack Reacher is a dog, by any means. What’s my lone gripe? It’s minimal, but it’s the fact that Alan Ritchson - while looking the size of the part - is too handsome for Reacher. Also, that line of dialogue where Reacher basically predicts to an opponent how a fight is going to go down (“One of you’s got to drive to the hospital” is a nice bit of Reacher foreshadowing), only to have it play out exactly how Reacher calculated the fight in his head? That’s right off of the pages of Lee Childs’ books. For starters, he leads off with head butts in fist fights. There are moments in this first trailer for Jack Reacher that get me very excited for Alan Ritchson’s portrayal. There’s always a dead body, a missing person, a put-upon innocent… someone who needs Reacher’s assistance. The trailer, as I mentioned, taps directly into who Jack Reacher is: A wanderer, and a former military cop, who can’t stop digging up trouble when he lands in an off-the-map podunk location.
And while Cruise was good as Reacher in every other aspect, Amazon knew they had to skew closer to the book when they tried a Jack Reacher series.
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Fans of the Jack Reacher series felt, rightfully so, that Cruise was miscast as the story’s lead - a mountain of a man who personifies brute force. This might look familiar to you, if you managed to watch either of the Tom Cruise movies that were adapted from the Lee Childs action series - one of which was VERY good, and the other of which was not.
It gets an awful lot right about this fascinating character… and one very important element wrong. Such is the way of this massive, wandering man. Naturally, his meal (guaranteed to include black coffee) is interrupted by distrustful law enforcement agents who are ready to pull Reacher into a violent mess. The first time we see Reacher in the trailer for the upcoming series, he’s seated in a diner. Here’s the best way to tell that the team behind Amazon Prime Video’s Jack Reacher series understand the character, and what fans of the Lee Childs books want to see out of these stories.
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