Tom Cruise is curently on location in Pittsburgh for One Shot, the first Jack Reacher movie, a high-budget blockbuster to hit theaters in February of 2013. The actor was recently interviewed by Empire about his approach to the character and some of the Reacher Creatures’ backlash about his casting: “Firstly, I’m very sensitive to…
If you haven’t been playing along, you might want to check out our Death Brackets feature page to get the lowdown on the contest and the participants along with how all the previous elimination rounds have gone down. Only two contestants remain. The cunning, highly trained, and super careful assassin John Rain, and the former…
Of all the literary tough guys from mysteries and thrillers, who would win in a fight to the death? No rules. No referees. No bells. We outlined the contest in the Introduction and gave you the tale of the tape for each contestant in the First Round (Part 1 and Part 2), and we’ve already…
And the tournament continues! This is our fourth Death Brackets post, and the suspense is horrible! In the Intro, you met the contestants and learned the rules. During the First Round (Part 1 and Part 2), you got the tales of the tape, their competitive advantages, disadvantages, and the first corpses left behind in elimination. …
If you’re not up to speed on the concept and the competitors, here’s where we set the rules and the brackets. Eight of the world’s best detectives versus eight spies, assassins and anti-heroes in a fight-to-the-death contest of wits and toughness. In brief, each hero is dropped into a random setting — not their home…
Mysteries and thrillers, by nature, are populated by tough guys. Detectives who hunt down serial killers. Spies who uncover dangerous traitors. Assassins who take out the worst bad guys on the planet — and anti-heroes like Dexter and Hannibal Lecter with enough goodness in their dark hearts that they sometimes turn their characters around and…
Via Deadline, Rosamund Pike, whom you may remember as Jane Bennet in Pride & Predjudice, has been selected to play Helen Rodin, a defense attorney encoutered by Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) as he investigates a sniper’s killings in the upcoming movie adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot. She is a talented actress and undeniably lovely,…
Can’t wait until end of September (when The Affair is released) for more hard-bitten Jack Reacher? The new Second Son novella, released yesterday, is a prequel to the Reacher we know (and love, and sometimes fear) today. It takes place when Reacher was 13, and his family is stationed on a military base in Okinawa.…
While some of the recent news surrounding Lee Child’s works has been met with, um, mixed reviews, fans should experience unabashed pleasure that he’s just won the 2011 award, his first, from the Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, held in Harrogate, UK. The winning title was Jack Reacher’s 14th adventure, 61 Hours. This award is…
All of us howled in agony at the news that Tom Cruise might be cast as Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. Well, change that might into a has. That’s right. According to Deadline.com, Cruise is going to play Jack Reacher in One Shot. We are speechless. You?
