Paramount made two big announcements this afternoon, including the confirmation that a Jack Reacher sequel is in the works. The studio also announced a title for Richard Linklater’s follow-up to Boyhood.
The studio said that Jack Reacher 2 will come out on Oct. 2, 2016, reports TheWrap.
It looks like Cruise will try to squeeze in the film right before he makes a sixth Mission: Impossible movie. Although Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai) started talks to take over directing duties from Christopher McQuarrie in May, it wasn’t until last month that it was confirmed that Jack Reacher 2 would even happen. The sequel seemed unlikely at first since the original ‘only’ made $80 million in North America after its December 2012 release. Of course, it also made $138.2 million overseas and that was enough to convince Paramount to greenlight a sequel.
The new film is expected to be based on Lee Child’s Never Go Back, which features the titular character going to the U.S. Army Military Police Corps and discovers that his commanding officer was arrested. The script was by Richard Wenk, with Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz doing some polishing. Cobie Smulders is in talk for the female lead.
Paramount’s other bit of news relates to Linklater’s “spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused,” which was already scheduled for April 15. That film’s officially been titled Everybody Wants Some and is about life in college baseball during the 1980s.
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