By With Amazon Prime’s “Reacher” having wrapped its second season this past week, attention is now turning towards the third one currently in production.
Speculation remains high as to which of Lee Child’s books will be adapted with series star Alan Ritchson previously hinting that it wil be more a standalone title and one that won’t delve into Reacher’s past the way the second season did.
Thus likely candidates include “Worth Dying For,” “Gone Tomorrow,” “Without Fail,” or “Tripwire”. In a recent interview with The Messenger, Child himself pretty much confirmed Ritchson’s quote.
He then elaborates on that, saying one of the big reasons they chose the book they have for the third season is because it’s Jack Reacher working on his own:
“We’ve picked it up, it’s chosen. It’s a good choice, I gotta say. I think we’ve been very creative about how we’ve sequenced the type of story.
We felt we needed a book that was more Reacher alone for the third season. And so it was a question of which story would work best for that, and which one would have a great opening scene and all that, and we found one that we loved.”
The first season saw him allying with two characters new in his life and an old friend, the second with his old team mates. That sounds like it will change for the third.
The comments come as the second season has come under the kind of criticism from audiences that the first didn’t, with a lot of that being put down to the shift to a weekly release strategy by Amazon rather than retaining the binge model of the first season.
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