On screen, Tom Cruise may look larger than life, but if you could ever get him to stop running and measure his height, you might find that he's one of those Napoleonic actors who's shorter in person than he looks on celluloid. The movie magic of shoe lifts and low-angle shots enables Cruise to fill the screen the way Alan Ritchson, star of the current "Reacher" series on Prime Video, fills the room in real life.
Cruise's action bona fides in the "Mission: Impossible" film series speak for themselves, but the actor is 5 foot 7, and this is part of the reason why loyal readers of the "Jack Reacher" book series — written by Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child — were taken aback by his casting in the two "Jack Reacher" movies. Cruise's version of Reacher comes across more as a guy who's underestimated because of his size. Ritchson, by contrast,...
Cruise's action bona fides in the "Mission: Impossible" film series speak for themselves, but the actor is 5 foot 7, and this is part of the reason why loyal readers of the "Jack Reacher" book series — written by Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child — were taken aback by his casting in the two "Jack Reacher" movies. Cruise's version of Reacher comes across more as a guy who's underestimated because of his size. Ritchson, by contrast,...
- 4/15/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
So what do producers like Nicholas Chartier and Greg Shapiro do after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture earlier this year for The Hurt Locker? Chariter says: "I still have exactly the same agenda: Try to find one movie every year that has a little more risk and higher profile." It looks like he may have found that film as Variety briefly mentions one of their future endeavors will see Robert Redford direct an adaptation of Neil Gordon's novel The Company You Keep from a screenplay by writer Lem Dobbs who has frequently collaborated with Steven Soderbergh on films like The Limey and, most recently, the spy thriller Knockout. The story in The Company You Keep follows small town lawyer and single dad Jim Grant who is unmasked as Jason Sinai, an ex-Weather Underground militant wanted for a deadly bank robbery. Forced to abandon his daughter and go...
- 5/11/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
I’ve already told you about Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem - and more than once - but the status of several more films from Voltage Pictures upcoming slate has now come to light. Voltage are a sales and financing company, and they’re now out in Berlin to drum up interest for their projects at the Efm - European Film Market. Screen Daily have the dish on the lot.
Robert Redford’s “romantic thriller” The Company You Keep seems to be the one getting the big push. Set to film in July, this one suits Redford down to the ground as it “tells of a former radical activist who goes on the run for the sake of his young daughter after his identity is revealed.” I assume director Redford will also take the lead role of Jim Grant, former Weather Underground man who played a part in a...
Robert Redford’s “romantic thriller” The Company You Keep seems to be the one getting the big push. Set to film in July, this one suits Redford down to the ground as it “tells of a former radical activist who goes on the run for the sake of his young daughter after his identity is revealed.” I assume director Redford will also take the lead role of Jim Grant, former Weather Underground man who played a part in a...
- 2/5/2009
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
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