First Official Photo of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Posted by on June 27th, 2012   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, Posters and Marketing
Source: EW

Tom Cruise’s upcoming film Jack Reacher (formerly known as One Shot) has, up until now, been suspiciously devoid of any kind of marketing presence throughout the first half of the summer. One might assume it is a bad sign, especially since the movie is a big holiday tentpole that should be raising awareness early, but up until last month Paramount didn’t even know what the film’s official title would be. Now that they’ve settled on Jack Reacher, however, it seems like they are still being very cautious about how they sell this movie to fans who have been very vocal about their disapproval of Tom Cruise in the lead role.

This week the very first official still from the movie has been released online courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. You would think that given their predicament they would really want to blow us away with an intriguing image, but alas, the photo is pretty nondescript. It’s just Tom Cruise standing with a car door open, wearing a leather jacket. No hint of action, no imposing looks, nothing to really set this apart from any of his other roles. What do you think, is this how you pictured Lee Child’s Jack Reacher? Jack Reacher hits theatres on December 21st; check out a larger version of the image after the jump.

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  • Nic Lipelli

    The arm chair quarterback in me says they should have gone with more of a grey- haired look, e.g. Collateral

  • Kasper

    Wow, an image of Tom Cruise looking like Tom Cruise. If I didn’t knew this was for a movie it could just as well have been e regular photo of him taken by a paparazzi.

  • cap

    Regular photo of Tom Cruise would have him smiling/laughing like he always does. But here… he doesn’t smile. And that’s what they call acting.

  • dan day

    I’m no Cruise hater. BUT WTF WERE THEY THINKING?? Reacher’s size – 6 foot 5, 230 pounds – is an integral part of the character. I hope I’m proved wrong but this is so, so wrong.

  • http://scaredcomix.tumblr.com Jonny Ashley

    hey, he can’t park there, what a badass. 2/5 for lack of actual jack reaching

  • Bruce Warwick

    Coming next . . . Betty White as the new James Bond. I can hardly wait!

  • RichC

    Jack Reacher doesn’t wear leather jackets. He buys the cheapest possible clothing, wears it until it starts to smell, and throws it in the trash. He carries nothing with him but a toothbrush, some cash, and just lately, an ID. He has no driver’s licence. He’s huge and immediately scary.

    That guy in the photo is not Jack Reacher.

  • Virginia

    “That guy in the photo is not Jack Reacher.” To quote Jack Reacher, “that’s for d@mn sure”. We’ve had celebrities meltdown w. drugs, we’ve seen celebrity train wreck marriages (whoops, TC!) and now we get to see a wrecked marriage plus a major star proudly display a full-blown little man complex. Never pictured the unstoppable 6’5″ force of nature that is Jack Reacher as a metrosexual with a high little voice. It’s the difference between a major thunderstorm and my dog passing gas. Straight to DVD for this schlock.

  • http://RandomHouseBooks Cathy Stansfield-Smith

    I would not walk 1 foot to see Tom Cruise and I sent emails to Lee Child telling him it was a stupid thing to do, to pout that little poop in a Jack Reacher movie. Peeu.

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