One Shot

According to this article in Variety, Josh Olson signed on to write the script adaptation of Lee Child's One Shot.

I'm a huge geek for Child's Reacher series. I met him at this past BEA, and got him to sign the latest, Bad Luck & Trouble. One Shot isn't my favorite -- that would be Without Fail, followed closely by Persuader -- but it's still a fucking awesome action/thriller. I can't recommend these titles enough.

Now... getting a screenwriter on a project doesn't automatically mean a movie's gonna happen, and it doesn't mean if a movie's gonna happen, it'll be anytime soon. But still, this is cool. The faster we get these books to screen, and in a kickass way, the better.

The one-line description in the article of what this book's about is so vague it's almost inaccurate. In brief: Reacher is a former MP. After spending his whole life traveling the world, when he gets out of the Army he decides to wander around America and check out the country he'd spent so many years protecting. Along the way, he runs across people who need his help, which inevitably leads to Reacher stepping in to offer a lot of strategic thinking and brutal violence.

These stories are on rails, the writing is supurb, the characters are great, the action's amazing. Even my least favorite titles in this series have more juice than 99% of the weak sauce "thrillers" on the shelves.

The climax of One Shot is pretty fuckin' killer, and I can't wait until I'm sitting in the Arclight or the Chinese watching it.