After kicking some ass as Maria Hill in the Avengers movies, How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders may be one of the leads in Jack Reacher 2.

According to The Wrap, Cobie Smulders is in early talks to star alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher 2. She would be playing a character named Danika, not a name taken from the Lee Child novels.

However, Jack Reacher 2 will supposedly be based on the book Never Go Back in which Jack discovers that his commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, has been arrested. Could Danika be this film's version of that character from the novel?

As we previously reported, Jack Reacher 2 heads into production this fall for a late 2016 release date. It will shoot in New Orleans and be directed by Edward Zwick. Rosamund Pike played the female lead in the original Jack Reacher, although it doesn't seem she will be returning for the sequel.

Coming off of her successful sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Cobie Smulders landed the role of Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron. She has also recently appeared in a few indie films such as Results and Unexpected.

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