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Family information. Helen Rodin is a character appearing in the Lee Child novel One Shot . She is an attorney in a small city in Indiana who takes on the case of defending James Barr who has been accused of killing 5 people in an unnamed city south of Indianapolis. She is the daughter of the District Attorney, Alex Rodin .
1 of 2 2 of 2 Reading: The cast of Jack Reacher thrives on chemistry NEW YORK—Rosamund Pike had been a Bond female child and a greek goddess, but she had never acted antonym Tom Cruise ’ s unsheathed chest of drawers before. In the crime thriller Jack Reacher, Pike plays a lawyer named Helen […]
Oct 05, 2020 · Richard Jenkins is an American theatre and film actor. In Jack Reacher, he has played the role of Alex Rodin, father of Helen Rodin. He is also shown as the district attorney in the movie who gives Barr two options to choose from - a death penalty or …
Critics have perceived other influences in Jack Reacher's creation. Bob Cornwell quotes Lee Child's reply in another interview as having created Reacher "as an antidote, to all the depressed and miserable alcoholics that increasingly peopled the genre". Similarly, editor Otto Penzler published an essay by Child explaining that Jack Reacher was created deliberately in contrast to the prevailing trends in crime fiction. His name is short and commonplace, as opposed to quirky or unusual; Reacher's personal ethics and wandering lifestyle are reminiscent of the chivalrous knight errant of medieval lore as opposed to an anti-hero tormented by addiction and haunted by past misbehavior.
Reacher's maternal grandfather, Laurent Moutier, was a furniture restorer in Paris, who, at age 30, volunteered for the French Army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, fighting at Verdun and The Somme. Between 1919 and 1929 he was commissioned to produce wooden legs for wounded veterans. Josephine Moutier was his only child. He died in 1974 at age 90. Jack, as a boy, met him three times and is described as having liked him. In Second Son Reacher is impressed with his grandfather's stoic acceptance of approaching death and says that "A man who survived Verdun and The Somme as well as the WWII anti-Nazi Resistance has already beaten the odds".
One episode depicted a space monster which then terrified the young Reacher. He was unable to sleep for days, thinking the monster was under his bed and would get him if he tried to sleep. According to Reacher, he then became angry: "Not at myself for being afraid, because as far as I was concerned the thing was totally real and I should be afraid. I got mad at the thing for making me afraid. For threatening me". Reacher then one night "kind of exploded with fury". In his words, Reacher "raced down the monster" and successfully changed his fear into fury. He also stated he has never been scared since.
He has also referred to Reacher on multiple occasions as a ' knight-errant ' and in an interview for the Time magazine describes the character as: " (He's) two things in one. On the surface, he is an ex-military cop who is suddenly dumped out into the civilian world. He doesn't fit in, and he spends his time wandering America, seeing the things that he's never had time to see before. He's trying to stay out of trouble, but masterfully once a year getting into trouble. He's also the descendant of a very ancient tradition: the noble loner, the knight errant, the mysterious stranger, who has shown up in stories forever… He is a truly universal character... I'm writing the modern iteration of a character who has existed for thousands of years."
The act of leaving his job turned Reacher into a protective figure, an avenging angel.". He finds that Reacher's actions are a manifestation of Child's anger at his sacking and that his violent ways of dealing with villains is 'cathartic' to the author.
As of 27 October 2020. , 25 novels have been published, the most recent being The Sentinel.
Josephine Moutier-Reacher (mother, deceased) Joe Reacher (brother, deceased) Nationality. American. Jack Reacher is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child.
The character Helen Rodin appears in the 2012 film Jack Reacher which is based on the novel One Shot.
The film takes place in the town of Pittsburgh, PA where she is an attorney. She is portrayed in the film by Rosamund Pike . Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
In June 2011, Tom Cruise was in talks for playing the role of Jack Reacher. The following month, Cruise closed a deal with the studios and signed on for the part. Some fans of the novel series became vocal over the casting of Cruise due to the actor's height not matching the description of Reacher in the novels. Explaining the casting decision, author Lee Child said that it would be impossible to find a suitable actor to play the giant Reacher and to recreate the feel of the book onscreen, and that Cruise had the talent to make an effective Reacher. Child also said, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way." Of Cruise's relatively small stature, Child said, "With another actor you might get 100% of the height but only 90% of Reacher. With Tom, you'll get 100% of Reacher with 90% of the height."
Box office. Jack Reacher grossed $80.1 million in North America and $138.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $218.3 million, against a budget of $60 million. In North America, the film opened in 3,352 cinemas.
Helen tells Reacher he can see the evidence if he will be her investigator, but Reacher retorts that he is not interested in clearing Barr's name. He reveals that Barr had gone on a killing spree during his tour in Iraq but was not prosecuted because, unbeknownst to Barr, his victims were under investigation for numerous rapes and the U.S. Army wanted them forgotten. Reacher vowed that if Barr tried anything like this again, he would take him down.
Reacher agrees to investigate if Helen visits the victims' families to learn about the people murdered that day. Reacher goes to the crime scene and finds inconsistencies about the location, thinking that a trained shooter would have done the killings from the cover of the van on the nearby Fort Duquesne Bridge.
Child also said, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way.". Of Cruise's relatively small stature, Child said, "With another actor you might get 100% of the height but only 90% of Reacher. With Tom, you'll get 100% of Reacher with 90% of the height.".
The film entered production in October 2011, and was completed in January 2012. It was filmed entirely on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It received mixed reviews but was successful at the box office.
Attempts to adapt author Lee Child 's Jack Reacher novel series into a film have been made ever since the character debuted in 1997's Killing Floor. After being optioned with no success to PolyGram and later New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures and Cruise/Wagner Productions acquired the film rights in 2005. Screenwriter Josh Olson was then hired to adapt Child's then-most recent novel in the Reacher series, One Shot (2005). In July 2010, Christopher McQuarrie, who previously collaborated with Cruise/Wagner Productions on the 2008 film Valkyrie, signed on to rework Olson's script and ultimately direct the film.
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The movie released in 2012. Helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie was based on the best-selling noble written by Lee Child, titled One Shot. The film revolves around an ex-army investigator who is called in to speak to a suspect of 5 random killings.
Helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie was based on the best-selling noble written by Lee Child, titled One Shot. The film revolves around an ex-army investigator who is called in to speak to a suspect of 5 random killings. As the investigator digs deeper, dark secrets are unveiled which cause major twists in the story. Jack Reacher's cast includes Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duval.
Rosamund Pike is a British actor who plays the character of Helen Rodin. Helen is the lawyer of the accused suspect, James Barr. She is based in Pittsburg. She is also the daughter of the District Attorney. Helen helps Reacher in investigating the case.
Jack Reacher was born into the military life to an active duty US Marine officer, Stan, and a French mother, Josephine. He is two years younger than his brother Joe Reacher. The family frequently traveled the globe from one base to another, living in Germany, Cameroon, Belgium, Spain, Okinawa, and France.
In Welcome to Margrave, Jack Reacher arrives off a Greyhound bus as the small town of Margrave with only a wad of cash and the barest of essentials. He stops a local diner where he intimidates an abusive boyfriend without uttering a word, the continues into the diner where he's about to enjoy a piece of pie.
" One Hundred Thousand years ago there were people who stayed by the campfire and people who wandered. I'm pretty sure I'm a direct descendent of the wandering type. "
Reacher is 6 feet 5 inches (1.95 m) tall, weighing 250 pounds (95–113 kg), with a hulking physique. He is built solid and with massive biceps, abs, and chest. He's always been tall for his age, standing just taller than his older brother in their teen years.
Reacher commanded the 110th Special Investigations Unit of the Military Police.
Jack Reacher is the central character in the Jack Reacher series of books.
Ritchson, 39, is probably best known to fans of superhero TV series. His TV debut as an actor came in 2005, when he was cast as Arthur Curry/Aquaman in the Superman origin series Smallville.
Though Reacher takes full advantage of the physical heft of Ritchson's body, as he alluded to in the Collider interview, he is a little shorter than the Jack Reacher of Child's books.
Jack Reacher, a former U.S. Army military policeman, visits the fictional rural town of Margrave, Georgia, and quickly becomes embroiled in a violent clash with a brutal criminal conspiracy.
On July 15, 2019, a TV series adaptation of Lee Child 's Jack Reacher series was announced by Amazon. Nick Santora, who created Scorpion, was set to write, showrun, and produce the series through Paramount Television and Skydance Media.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 90% approval rating with an average rating of 7.30/10, based on 58 critic reviews.
Lee Child has described Reacher's accomplices and their characterization and origin in the following terms: " The whole cast for each book is new. It kind of depends on what the scenario is and what the set up is. Do I use people that I actually know? In a way yeah, because you met people and you regard them as meta-typical as one thing or another – so as a large extent, yes, they are based on people I've met but not specific individuals."
Reacher himself expounds on a hypothesis about this vagrant life-style in Never Go Back. He states that he has a genetic disposition towards roaming about, citing the British Empire, the Vikings, and the Polynesians as groups with a similar wanderlust. While he accepts that there was an economical necessity behind their voyages, he maintains that "some of them could not stop". He feels that long ago when humans lived in small bands, there was a risk of inbreedingas a resu…
Reacher is described as brutally proficient in hand-to-hand combat. He is quite fast for his height, and often fights opponents his size or larger. His skill is attributed to the fact that he grew up all over the world, due to being in a Marine Corps family. While he is not a master in any one form of combat, he tends to incorporate moves from various styles. His favorite moves are headbutts, elbow strikes, and kicks to the groin. As Child once put it, "Reacher's fighting style is like throwin…
Reacher has a love for music, especially blues. It was this affinity that inspires Reacher to get off the bus at the start of Killing Floor, and in the same novel reveals that he has a music collection in his head, replaying tracks as he travels without needing the technology others seem to be obsessed with and burdened by. Reacher explains this to detectives investigating an early morning suicide on a near-deserted New York subway near a visit to a blues club on Bleecker Street.
Bryan Curtis, in an interview with Lee Child, describes Reacher thus:
His face looked like it had been chipped out of rock by a sculptor who had ability but not much time.
From A Wanted Man: "He was one of the largest men she had ever seen outside the NFL. He was extremely tall, and extremely broad, and long-armed, and long-legged. The lawn chair was regula…
Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, based on Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. The film stars Tom Cruise as the title character, with Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall also starring. The film entered production in October 2011, and was completed in January 2012. It was filmed entirely on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It received mixed reviews but was suc…
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man drives a van into a parking garage across the Allegheny River from PNC Park, dropping a quarter into the meter. He readies a Springfield Armory M1A and assassinates five people on the river's North Shore Trail from long range before driving off. The police, headed by Detective Calvin Emerson, find a shell casing as well as the quarter used to pay for parking. A fingerprint on the coin belongs to James Barr, a former US Armysniper. When the p…
• Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
• Rosamund Pike as Helen Rodin
• Richard Jenkins as District Attorney Alex Rodin
• Werner Herzog as Zek Chelovek
Attempts to adapt author Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel series into a film have been made ever since the character debuted in 1997's Killing Floor. After being optioned with no success to PolyGram and later New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures and Cruise/Wagner Productions acquired the film rights in 2005. Screenwriter Josh Olson was then hired to adapt Child's then-most recent novel in the Reacher series, One Shot (2005). In July 2010, Christopher McQuarrie, who previously …
The trailer for Jack Reacher was officially released on Cruise's birthday, July 3, 2012.
Jack Reacher, then titled One Shot, was originally slated to be released in February 2013. In March 2012, the release date was brought forward by Paramount Pictures to December 21, 2012, hoping to capitalize on the box office success of Cruise's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which was released at a similar point in 2011. The film's new release date pushed the release of World …
Jack Reacher grossed $80.1 million in North America and $138.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $218.3 million, against a budget of $60 million.
In North America, the film opened in 3,352 cinemas. Jack Reacher went on to gross $5.1 million on its opening day in the U.S. and Canada, and $15.6 million in its opening weekend. The film held well in its second weekend, dropping only 10.2% to a total of $14.1 million and ranking at No. 5.
While Jack Reacher was intended to be a tent-pole for a film series, it was initially reported that a sequelwould be unlikely due to its lackluster run at the North American box office. However, in February 2013, the possibility of a sequel became more likely after the film surpassed a gross of $200 million worldwide. On December 9, 2013, it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions were moving forward with the development of a sequel, reportedly based …
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