Cobie Smulders Reportedly Joins Tom Cruise in JACK REACHER 2
With How I Met Your Mother disappearing in her rear view mirror, Cobie Smulders has popped up in some big movies lately (Avengers: Age of Ultron, anyone?), and it appears she'll next be starring alongside another of the world's biggest movie stars — who, weirdly enough, was once attached to play Iron Man.
The Wrap reports that Smulders is in early talks to join Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher 2 for The Last Samurai director Ed Zwick. If the deal goes through, she'll play the film's female lead, a character named Danika. Details are being kept under wraps for now, but we know the film will be an adaptation of Never Go Back, the 18th novel in author Lee Childs' Reacher series. Here's the description of that book to give a good idea of what to expect from the movie:
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.
Reacher is there to meet—in person—the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone.
But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.
When threatened, you can run or fight.
Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs.
Combining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces—and makes him question who he is, what he’s done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road.
Production on Jack Reacher 2 is slated to begin later this year. Rosamund Pike played the female lead in the first film, so Smulders has a high bar to live up to if she ends up taking this role.