Lee Child Used His Veto to Stop a Third Tom Cruise Reacher Film
Prime Video's Reacher is preparing a fifth and sixth season, and the man who wrote the books sounds pleased with the arrangement. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, explained why he exercised his veto over a third entry in the Tom Cruise films, Deadline reports, opting instead for the series route — an adaptation the outlet describes him as happy with for the freedom it provides. The veto, in other words, was not a rejection of adaptation but a choice between two versions of it.
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A veto is an odd form of creative control: it lets an author stop a film without giving him the means to make one. What makes Child's case unusual is that he had somewhere else to go.
Leverage only counts if the alternative exists. The series was heading toward a fifth and sixth season, and the author is described as happy with the freedom that adaptation affords — which is a very different position from simply blocking something.