Japanese Jack Reacher Trailer Puts Tom Cruise in Muscle Car Mode
Tom Cruise shifts into kick-your-ass-gear in the new Japanese trailer for Jack Reacher.
Hopping behind the wheel of a 1970 Chevelle in the new clip, Cruise a man who shares a fondness for 1970s muscle cars with Reacher writer-director Christopher McQuarrie goes all-out in the conspiracy thrillers brutal chase scenes. (Probably a good idea since its unimaginable that he could top the sky scraper free-fall from Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.)
Cruise, who of course did many of his own car-chase stunts for the flick, also doesnt hold back with Jack Reachers particular brand of whoop-ass, intoning to one particular baddie, Do you think Im a hero? Im not a hero. On second thought, Id like to kill you.
Jack Reacher is hardly a household name in the U.S. but the vigilante character, a former military investigator, anchors the series of bestsellers by British novelist Lee Child. The Cruise movie is based on Lees ninth book One Shot.
McQuarrie, best known for writing twisted noir thriller The Usual Suspects, delivers the gist of Jack Reacher in a trailer that communicates the essentials to Japanese and non-Japanese viewers alike: A sniper did something awful, and Reacher wi! ll figure out the conspiracy behind the crime (and shoot things, and race cars).
Looks like a wild ride.
Jack Reacher, co-starring Rosamund Pike (Wrath of the Titans) and film director Werner Herzog, opens Dec. 21.
From Los Angeles, Hugh Hart covers movies, television and assorted pop culture oddities for Wired.com. He also writes twisted pop songs.
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