Oscar Nominee Richard Jenkins in Final Negotiations for 'One Shot'

Add one more name to the cast of Tom Cruise's next film.

Variety reports Richard Jenkins (who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor a couple years back for his performance in The Visitor) is in final negotiations to star alongside Cruise in the Christopher McQuarrie written and directed, One Shot.

The film, based on the Lee Childs novel of the same name, is an adaption of the ninth book in the popular Jack Reacher series about a former military policeman turned drifter.

Jenkins joins a cast that already includes Rosamund Pike (Fracture) and David Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland).

No word yet on who Jenkins will play but one can assume it will be a meaty role considering an actor of his caliber.

A description of the book is below:

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.

And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter—a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right—and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.

Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning—and then beat him shot for shot.

Source: Variety