'Reacher' Star Alan Ritchson's Family Involved in Scary Car Accident

Prime Video is headed into February with tons of exciting content, including a brand new romantic comedy just in time for Valentine’s Day, a thrilling action series, and the fourth season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning show,. The platform also has plenty of movies and TV shows, both new and old alike, arriving on the platform this month.  stars actress Jenny Slate and Charlie Day.

Amazon has announced that its newly released Reacher series starring Titans actor Alan Ritchson is being renewed for a second season.The new series – which premiered on Prime Video on February 4 – is based on the character from Lee Child’s international bestselling series of books, which also spawned two film adaptations starring Tom Cruise: 2012’s Jack Reacher and 2016’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.According to Amazon, Reacher, which is written by showrunner and executive producer Nick Santora (Scorpion), is already one of Prime Video’s Top Five most-watched shows ever both in the US and globally. The streaming giant also said the show is one of the most binged original series ever.“The phenomenal debut of Reacher is a testament to Lee Child’s creation of one of entertainment’s most well-known heroes, Nick Santora’s original approach to the storytelling, Alan’s brilliant embodiment of the character, and the dedication of the talented people who worked tirelessly in front of and behind the camera to make such an undeniably bingeworthy series,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said in a statement.“The global impact of Reacher makes it one of Prime Video’s biggest series debuts, and we can’t wait to bring fans a second season of their new favourite show.”Santora said of the renewal: “The entire Reacher team – cast, production, writers, etc – is so happy with the wonderful reception the show has received.

Alan Ritchson is reflecting on a previous gig.

Reacher is clearly a hit for Amazon Prime Video because the streaming service has renewed the series just three days after it premiered.

Amazon Prime Video series based on his books.Childs is happy that the TV show chose a different actor to play Reacher after Tom Cruise played him in two films.Fans were concerned over Cruise’s height, as Reacher is described in one book as “extremely tall, extremely broad, long-armed and long-legged,” with “hands the size of dinner plates.”Alan Ritchson — who is 6-foot-2 — stars in the new series as the titular character, while Cruise, 59, stands at 5-foot-7.Childs is an executive producer on the project and spoke to Metro about his thoughts on the recasting. “There was criticism from the book fans because they had built up a very clear image of what Reacher should look like,” Childs said. “It just became a different proposition and I guess the opportunity of thinking ‘Alright, we can get a much bigger guy so the book fans are going to be happy,’” the writer continued.

Jack Reacher series, has spoken about criticism from book fans about the casting of Tom Cruise in the 2012 film and its sequel.The character has just returned in the Amazon Prime Video series Reacher, this time played by Alan Ritchson.Some book fans were critical of Cruise as Reacher, particularly as the character is described at 6’5″ in the source material, while the actor is believed to be much shorter than that. However, many non-book fans liked Cruise in the role, so the new series had to “satisfy” both camps, according to Child.“There was criticism from the book fans because they had built up a very clear image of what Reacher should look like,” he told Metro.co.uk.Child added of casting Ritchson: “It just became a different proposition and I guess the opportunity of thinking ‘alright, we can get a much bigger guy so the book fans are going to be happy.’“But we’re also focusing on the non-book readers.

The Jack Reacher author is addressing the criticism fans had over Tom Cruise playing the Army veteran hero in the movie franchise.

Lee Child’s first Jack Reacher novel The Killing Floor is the latest to be adapted to the small screen.

The first season of new show Reacher lands on Amazon Prime Video today (Friday, February 4).

Alan Ritchson is opening up about an injury.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editor“Reacher,” an Amazon series based on the beloved Lee Child books, premiered at a drive-in screening Wednesday night at The Grove in Los Angeles.“I love this character,” Alan Ritchson, who stars as Jack Reacher in the series, told Variety on the arrivals carpet. “And especially for novels… there’s no better medium than eight to 10 episodes. It’s the right amount of time to tell these stories.”The Jack Reacher saga, which has sold over 100 million book copies and was adapted into a pair of features starring Tom Cruise, continues to hold “such a wide reach.

Joshua Alston Know this about Jack Reacher: He’s an awfully tall drink of brackish water.No more than 10 minutes go by in “Reacher,” Prime Video’s series adaptation of Lee Child’s durable book franchise, without someone mentioning the eponymous character’s intimidating stature. Reacher, played here by Alan Ritchson (“Titans”), is described at various points as a “giant,” “Frankenstein’s monster,” and, without irony, as “250 pounds of frontier justice.” When characters aren’t conjuring turns of phrase to describe Reacher’s size, the camera is employing forced perspective techniques to render him even larger than the 6 feet 5 inches established in Child’s canon.The emphasis on Reacher’s physique is a good-faith gesture to fans of Child’s 26-and-counting novels, some of whom bristled at the pair of Reacher films featuring Tom Cruise as a featherweight version of the legendary bruiser.

It wasn’t too long ago that television was a place without pretension. It was a place to go for serialized, no-frills storytelling and you’d never hear it compared to what you’d see in the cinema.

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.

Alan Ritchson is hitting the red carpet for the premiere of his new Amazon Prime Video series!

Prime Video‘s new series, “Reacher,” it was the first time that 6’2 actor Alan Ritchson’s size came in handy.“Most of the time, I try and stay available to whatever opportunities might come, and I don’t know what those are going to look like,” Ritchson, 39, told The Post. “So I try to look as average as possible. I do a lot of running, and I don’t touch weights.

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