We're rebooting and starting over and we're going to try and find the perfect guy. "And I want all those readers who were upset about Tom Cruise to help me out – participate in choosing the right actor for the TV series. Long form streaming television, with a completely new actor. Instead we're going to take it to Netflix or something like that. So what I've decided to do is – there won't be any more movies with Tom Cruise. After leaving the US Army as a major in its military police at age 36, Reacher roams the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations. "The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute," he continued. "And Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality. Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it's a big component of who he is. We had a lot of fun," Child said. "But ultimately the readers are right. There was an outcry from Child's fans when Cruise's casting was first announced in 2011. "I really enjoyed working with Cruise. "Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality," Lee Child, author of the bestselling Jack Reacher novels, told BBC Radio Manchester yesterday. The character's creator has decided that the 5ft 7in actor is just too small to play the 6ft 5in Reacher. After playing the action hero Jack Reacher in two Hollywood films, Tom Cruise won't be stepping into his enormous shoes again.
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