The (Smulders) character Susan Turner was very much Lee’s creation. What spoke to them and you about that particular story, and did you make a lot of changes from the book?Ī lot. That’s something that Don Granger and Tom and Chris McQuarrie had together already thought would be the subject. When you came on board was the actual book, Never Go Back, already chosen or did you look at other books?

Coincidentally as the culture gets more and more like that, the fantasy only goes stronger. It’s a reminder just how tethered you are. It’s not just that it’s a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it’s also a leash. The phone that you carry around with you. The answer is absolutely not, and that makes the fantasy even more powerful and desirable I think. Is it possible in the real world to actually get off the grid completely? That’s a strong wish.īooks and stories and fiction live in their own world. Yet, someone who also fights for that person in need, or has a code that he gets involved with something and he carries it through to the end, regardless of what that requires him to do. I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have, of being self-contained, and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. We spoke with Zwick earlier this week by phone about making his first sequel, reuniting with Cruise for the first time since 2003’s The Last Samurai, and more.

Reacher has a whole new set of problems to solve in this story, including clearing the name of the major who took his old military job (Cobie Smulders), determining whether a plucky teenage girl (Danica Yarosh) is really his daughter and battling against a team of rogue arms dealers and assassins.

Picking up where screenwriter/director Christopher McQuarrie left off with 2012’s sleeper hit Jack Reacher, Zwick has penned (along with longtime collaborator Marshall Herskowitz and Richard Wenk) and directed Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, in which Tom Cruise once again plays the drifter and anti-hero at the heart of some 20 books by author Lee Child. Director Edward Zwick has directed a lot of movies in many different genres - from the Civil War classic Glory to the eerily prophetic terrorist thriller The Siege to last year’s fact-based chess face-off Pawn Sacrifice - but he’s never made a straight-up crime/action film until now.

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