Crazy Ivan
Carpe Jugulum
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Great series/character. Reacher is blond, 6'5", 250lbs while Cruise is a 5'7", 150lbs with dark hair.
Child said:
“I based Reacher on a physical type of person which is huge and ugly,” Child said. “There was an English rugby player called Lawrence Dallaglio.
“Think of him in his peak. He was a big guy.
“There is a very iconic picture of him – a photo of him – and he’s got the ball in one hand, he’s got these giant hands. He is exactly the sort of guy you would not mess with. Because he’s big and he’s also rather brutal-looking, not that I would ever say that to his face.”
Looks just like Cruise if you ask me....
The Jack Reacher novels sort of remind me of the old Travis McGee series by John McDonald. He wrote about 20 or so TM stories from the mid-60s through the early 80s. My dad would read them and then give them to me to read when I was a teenager and I kept reading them through adulthood. McGee was also described as a big dude, but rangy. Sam Eliot played TM in the one movie they did, and he was fairly close to how I pictured TM, although TM if I remember, was probably a little taller than Eliot. McGee was also ex-military like Reacher. He was a 'salvage consultant', meaning if someone took something of value from you, TM would recover it for you for halfsies. And he lived on a houseboat in a marina in S.Fla. that he had won i a poker game. Mcgee was a cool dude.
