Additionally, Picard boss clears up confusion about the timeline for Star Trek, and we learned a little more about Patrick Stewart's costar in the upcoming series. Christopher McQuarrie coordinated the film. The film was first delivered on December 21, 2012. In other books in the series, Reacher takes odd jobs and constantly finds himself in trouble, which leads to dramatic action sequences.įor more on the TCA winter press tour, check out news about Syfy's Peter Pan and Child's Play series, as well as more info about Amazon's Wheel of Time show. Jack Reacher 3: Release Date, Cast, Plot And New Updates Lee Child’s epic One Shot Based film Jack Reacher is an exciting activity film featuring Tom Cruise in the number one spot. The first Jack Reacher book-which the show is based on-follows the titular character who is an ex-military police officer, drifting through life, before he is falsely accused of murder while passing through a town in Georgia.
So we're going to do an extensive exploration of who can step into those big big shoes." So you may see us take our time really making sure we find that person, whether they exist in our purview or they are a new discovery from somewhere. We think that is a great thing and that's what we want to do. "We really are determined to find somebody who can embody that character for Lee and for all of us. "We spent a lot of time talking to David Ellison about this, explained Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. During Amazon's TCA presentation, the company revealed that it knows that replacing Cruise is going to be a challenge. Santora will serve as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner of the new series.īoth Jack Reacher movies starred Tom Cruise in the titular role, though he will not be reprising it for this new series. He is the pulse of Reacher," said Nick Santora in a press release. The physically gifted Ritchson, who is current playing DC Comics superhero Hawk/Hank. In that series, Reacher is described as 6ft5 and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds. Child's books-and luckily, Lee has been there, and will continue to be there, to help guide us along the way in this series. Deadline broke the news this weekend past that Alan Ritchson has been cast to play Jack Reacher in Amazon Prime’s upcoming TV series adaptation of Child’s novel series.
"Lee Child has created an incredible character and world it will be the goal of every writer, producer, actor, executive and crew member to capture the essence of Mr. Not for another film this time, but for a thrilling new TV series for Amazon Prime. Image credit Getty/Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic. The newly greenlit series will be based on Child's first Jack Reacher novel, The Killing Floor, which was revealed at the TCA winter press tour. Find out the latest on the new Jack Reacher TV series coming to Amazon Prime, based on the bestselling books by Lee Child. Grossing over $380 million worldwide in total, Jack Reacher's two films have been a box office success, and now, the character created by Lee Child is coming to Amazon Prime Video as a TV series.