Rosamund Pike will star opposite Tom Cruise in "One Shot," the crime thriller that likely will be shot in Pittsburgh this fall and winter. Ms. Pike had been in contention with Hayley Atwell and Alexa Davalos.
Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Ms. Pike, who did a screen test Saturday for director Christopher McQuarrie, emerged as the leading lady. She will play Helen Rodin, a young attorney hired to defend a man accused in the shooting deaths of five people.
Mr. Cruise doesn't match the physical description of Jack Reacher, a footloose ex-military investigator who doubts the official version of events, but Ms. Pike is a good fit. Author Lee Child writes in the novel that inspired the movie:
"She was probably no more than 30, quite tall, lightly built. Slim, in an athletic sort of way. Not anorexic. Either she ran or played soccer or had been very lucky with her metabolism.
"She had long blond hair and her father's blue eyes. There was intelligence behind them."
Ms. Pike recently appeared in "Barney's Version," "Made in Dagenham" and "An Education."
The book also has small but choice roles for other women, assuming they make the cinematic cut: A woman from Reacher's past who is a brigadier general, a local TV reporter drawn into the investigation and the sister of the accused sniper.
The novel is set in a quiet city in the state of Indiana although Paramount has had no comment on whether Pittsburgh would play itself or cheat for another city and when filming might take place.
-- Movie editor Barbara Vancheri
Rosamund Pike will star opposite Tom Cruise in "One Shot," the crime thriller that likely will be shot in Pittsburgh this fall and winter. Ms. Pike had been in contention with Hayley Atwell and Alexa Davalos.
Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Ms. Pike, who did a screen test Saturday for director Christopher McQuarrie, emerged as the leading lady. She will play Helen Rodin, a young attorney hired to defend a man accused in the shooting deaths of five people.
Mr. Cruise doesn't match the physical description of Jack Reacher, a footloose ex-military investigator who doubts the official version of events, but Ms. Pike is a good fit. Author Lee Child writes in the novel that inspired the movie:
"She was probably no more than 30, quite tall, lightly built. Slim, in an athletic sort of way. Not anorexic. Either she ran or played soccer or had been very lucky with her metabolism.
"She had long blond hair and her father's blue eyes. There was intelligence behind them."
Ms. Pike recently appeared in "Barney's Version," "Made in Dagenham" and "An Education."
The book also has small but choice roles for other women, assuming they make the cinematic cut: A woman from Reacher's past who is a brigadier general, a local TV reporter drawn into the investigation and the sister of the accused sniper.
The novel is set in a quiet city in the state of Indiana although Paramount has had no comment on whether Pittsburgh would play itself or cheat for another city and when filming might take place.
-- Movie editor Barbara Vancheri
Rosamund Pike will star opposite Tom Cruise in "One Shot," the crime thriller that likely will be shot in Pittsburgh this fall and winter. Ms. Pike had been in contention with Hayley Atwell and Alexa Davalos.
Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Ms. Pike, who did a screen test Saturday for director Christopher McQuarrie, emerged as the leading lady. She will play Helen Rodin, a young attorney hired to defend a man accused in the shooting deaths of five people.
Mr. Cruise doesn't match the physical description of Jack Reacher, a footloose ex-military investigator who doubts the official version of events, but Ms. Pike is a good fit. Author Lee Child writes in the novel that inspired the movie:
"She was probably no more than 30, quite tall, lightly built. Slim, in an athletic sort of way. Not anorexic. Either she ran or played soccer or had been very lucky with her metabolism.
"She had long blond hair and her father's blue eyes. There was intelligence behind them."
Ms. Pike recently appeared in "Barney's Version," "Made in Dagenham" and "An Education."
The book also has small but choice roles for other women, assuming they make the cinematic cut: A woman from Reacher's past who is a brigadier general, a local TV reporter drawn into the investigation and the sister of the accused sniper.
The novel is set in a quiet city in the state of Indiana although Paramount has had no comment on whether Pittsburgh would play itself or cheat for another city and when filming might take place.
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11230/1167997-60-0.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml#ixzz1VjTdDhfu
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