ONE SHOT (update)

• ONE SHOT

There's been some controversy about Paramount Pictures anddirector/co-writer Christopher McQuarrie's decision to go with Tom Cruise forthe role of Jack Reacher in the thriller One Shot, based on Lee Child's novels.Cruise talks about the casting in the new issue of Empire magazine, whichfeatures Cruise and his Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol co-stars on thecover.

"Firstly, I'm very sensitive to it," Cruiseexplained from the Pittsburgh set. "This is Lee's book and Lee'scharacter. Him giving me his blessing is what made me do it. If he hadn't thenI wouldn't have done it."

The biggest issue with fans has been the height differencebetween Reacher and Cruise. "Lee told me that the reason he wrote him thatsize (6'5") is because that was just one element to his character, andthat opened the door to me playing him."

"Reacher is such a great character," he added."He doesn't have a cell phone, he doesn't have email. He's off the grid.He pays for things in cash. People look at things through the prism of thecolors of their life but Jack Reacher does things the way we want to sometimes.In that sense he's sort of Dirty Harry, a James Bond, a Josey Wales."

One Shot is scheduled for a February 8, 2013 release.