Available on Prime Video, the Reacher series features Alan Ritchson as the famous US Army veteran. But after the two films with Tom Cruise, why does the hero of Lee Child find himself in a series?
Online since February 4 on Prime Video, the Reacher series is an adaptation of the famous novels by Lee Child. Reacher, camped by Alan Ritchson, arrives in the small town of Margrave when he has left the army and leads the life of a vagrant. As soon as he arrived, he was taken away by the police with a murder charge.
An amazing series version after Tom Cruise played the character twice on the big screen in Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. And after a quite relative success, Lee Child had himself announced that Tom Cruise would not return for a third installment, accusing him of being too small for the role. BBC Radio, Lee Child said:
Reacher’s size is really, really important and a big part of who he is. The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you’re all a little nervous just the first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physique.
Avid readers of Child had complained about Tom Cruise’s suitability to play the hulking former US military police major since his casting announcement in 2011.”But in the end the readers are right“concluded the author.
This is how Lee Child decided to continue the adventures of his hero in a series broadcast on a streaming platform. “So what I decided to do is that there will be no more movies with Tom Cruise. Instead, we’re going to do a long-running streaming series with a brand new actor.
And I want all those readers who were unhappy with Tom Cruise to help me out – help me out with choosing the right actor for the show. We’re rebooting and starting over and trying to find the perfect guy.“
The least we can say is that Alan Ritchson perfectly matches the original description of Reacher, as imagined in the mind of Lee Child.