Amazon's 'Reacher' brings character closer to author's book
03.02.2022 - 18:11
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NEW YORK -- Adaptations of books to film and television often take liberties or stray from the original text. Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher twice on film but didn't match the physical description of the character described by author Lee Child.Child's Reacher is 6 foot, 5 inches tall.
Cruise is under 6 feet.A new Amazon Originals series “ Reacher ” has found an actor closer to the author's profile of the former U.S. Army officer who travels the country without a plan, but finds trouble wherever he goes.Alan Ritchson, ("Titans," “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) who stars as Reacher in the series, is 6 foot, 2 inches tall.
In the series, his Reacher towers over just about everyone he meets and draws attention for his size wherever he goes. This Reacher is referred to regularly out loud by adjectives about his height, such as “giant” and “stretch."Ritchson says he can relate to that and deals with “size-ism often" in his own life, describing his height and girth.“I took my son to a trampoline park with his friend recently and my son told me his friend said ”your dad has gotten fat," laughed Ritchson in a Zoom interview.Where the TV Reacher strays from the books is with dialogue.
“Reacher said nothing” is a common written phrase in the book, but Ritchson’s Reacher, while an observer, speaks his mind.“Lee Child in the books had the luxury of explaining what’s going on inside Reacher's head," said Ritchson. “But that’s a little tougher to adapt to the screen without literally having a narrator.
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