While both films were modest box office successes, Never Go Back's poor critical reception and relative financial underperformance (it "only" made $192 million on a $60 million budget) ended up nixing plans to turn Jack Reacher into a tentpole franchise for Paramount. Ritchson will reportedly continue to appear on Titans while working on Jack Reacher.Īmazon's show is the third live-action adaptation of the Reacher series, after the 2012 Tom Cruise feature film Jack Reacher, based off of the 2005 novel One Shot, and its 2016 sequel, named after and based on the 2013 novel Never Go Back. In the latter role, Ritchson was the first actor to ever play Aquaman in a live-action production. In addition to his current role on Titans, where he plays the football player turned superhero Hank "Hawk" Hall, he has appeared in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the 2014 Michael Bay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, Black Mirror, and Smallville. Ritchson is a former model and musician who branched out into acting following an appearance in the third season of American Idol. Jack Reacher is the second Amazon series based on a book series from the Skydance/Paramount collaboration, after Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. Other executive producers include Lee Child, Don Granger, Scott Sullivan, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross. Nick Santora ( Scorpion, Breakout Kings, The Sopranos) is attached to the first season as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
RELATED: Amazon's 'The Wheel of Time' Casts Sophie Okonedo and Kae Alexander The first season of Amazon's Jack Reacher is planned to adapt the storyline of the first Reacher novel, 1997's Killing Floor, in which Reacher is arrested for murder in a small town in Georgia due to a case of mistaken identity. Published at least once a year since 1997, the Reacher series has sold over 100 million books as of 2019. Army, who opts to become a rootless wanderer after his discharge, and proceeds to get into trouble wherever he goes. Jack Reacher is a former major and military policeman in the U.S. The show is an adaptation of a series of mystery novels by British author Lee Child. The series, in development for Amazon Prime Video since July of 2019, is a co-production between Amazon Studios, Paramount TV Studios, and Skydance TV. The title role in Amazon's Jack Reacher series will be played by Titans's Alan Ritchson.
Alan Ritchson has been cast as Jack Reacher
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