Lee Child's enormously successful Jack Reacher series is finally headed to the screen, with the news that A History of Violence scribe Josh Olsen is set to adapt** One Shot** for the screen.
The ninth Jack Reacher book, One Shot starts with the killing of five innocent civilians in a shopping mall by a sniper. A man is arrested, apparently red-handed, but proclaims his innocence and demands that former United States Army Police Major Jack Reacher be contacted. Sure enough, when Reacher (now a drifter) turns up, he smells a rat and sets about finding the real culprit.
Reacher is described in the books as a blond haired, blue-eyed 6'5" giant of a man, with a penchant for coffee and the blues and an uncanny ability to know the time despite rarely wearing a watch.
So it looks like Paramount believes that old Mae West line, about a hard man being good to find. Olsen compared the story to that of Dirty Harry, and says he plans on writing a "tough, smart, action-oriented thriller".