Before
teaming up for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Tom Cruise and director
Christopher McQuarrie tested out their working chemistry in 2012 with Jack
Reacher, an adaptation of Lee Child's One Shot novel from the series of books about the
character. Personally, I found the film slightly pretentious, lackluster, and
stiff, but it did found an audience and garnered a hefty box office result.
Back in 2013,
Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions announced that a sequel to the 2012
movie was being developed, but it was only a few months ago that we heard something
tangible from the next installment in the franchise. The Last Samurai director
Ed Zwick replaces McQuarrie at the helm, and screenwriter
Marshall Herskovitz will re-write Richard Wenk's script based on Child's Never
Go Back, the 18th novel in the series.
We
later learned that production was expected to start in November for a possible
release in late 2016, but now according to Paramount and Skydance we know that
Jack Reacher 2 has been scheduled to open in theaters on October 21, 2016.
The follow-up will focus on the titular character's return to his old
Virgina military base only to find that the new Commanding Officer has been
arrested and he is being accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide.
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