In casting news, Tom Cruise is reportedly in negotiations with Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions to star in this fall’s One Shot , an adaptation of Lee Child’s thriller series. Cruise will play Jack Reacher, who is described in the books as a 6’5, 250 pound military policeman-turned-drifter. If all goes as planned, the film will shoot in Pittsburgh before Cruise begins production on the big budget sci-fi film Oblivion . The Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie is set to direct. [ Deadline ]
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Tom Cruise is in Talks to Play a 6’5 Drifter