A couple of days ago we reported that three actresses were in the running to play the female lead in One Shot, opposite Tom Cruise. Hayley Atwell, Alexa Davalos and Rosamund Pike all read for the part, and now Deadline reports that Pike has been offered the role and is in talks to play it.
The film, based on the ninth book in Lee Childs’ series about Jack reacher, centres on Tom Cruise’s character, a former military police officer who now drifts across the country as a P.I.. He gets involved in the investigation into a lone sniper who has murdered five victims, and soon realises there is much more to the case. Rosamund Pike will play Helen Rodin, an attorney defending the sniper who works with Reacher.
Christopher McQuarrie will direct One Shot from his own screenplay, with shooting expected to begin sometime this autumn.