Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Q&A author Lee Child and producer Don Granger

2016. 118 m. Edward Zwick. Paramount Pictures. USA. English. Rated PG-13.

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Special preview screening! Based on the 18th book in the long-running series from novelist Lee Child, Never Go Back sees investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) springing into action after the arrest of Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), an Army major accused of treason. Suspecting foul play, Jack embarks on a mission to prove that the head of his old unit is innocent. After crossing paths with the law, he must now go on the lam to uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy that involves the death of US soldiers. Directed by Edward Zwick (Pawn Sacrifice, Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai) and produced by Don Granger, who will join Janet Maslin after this exciting sneak preview for a Q&A.

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Q&A author Lee Child and producer Don Granger with JBFC Board President Janet Maslin

Monday, Oct. 17 2016, 3:30

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Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV’s “golden age.” During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment.

Don Granger who produced the first Jack Reacher film, returns to produce Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Currently, Executive Vice President Motion Picture Production at Skydance Media, Granger is responsible for helping to oversee the company’s growing feature film slate, including serving as producer on Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015.

Granger has almost 30 years of experience in shepherding tentpole films. Prior to Skydance, Granger served as President of Motion Picture Production at United Artists, where he ran the day-to-day development and production operations for five years. Before United Artists, Granger oversaw production, development and operations at C/W Productions as a senior executive, where he helped bring War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible III and Elizabethtown to the big screen.

Prior to C/W, Granger served as Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Production at Paramount Pictures, where he was responsible for supervising such blockbuster franchises as Mission Impossible, Star Trek, Tomb Raider and the Jack Ryan films, as well as Patriot Games, Varsity Blues, The Saint, Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider and the Academy Award^®-winning Saving Private Ryan, among others.