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Geek Tyrant
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Alan Ritchson Says REACHER Season 4 'May Be the Best Yet' as Training Kicks Into Gear — GeekTyrant
According to Alan Ritchson, Reacher Season 4 might just be the biggest and baddest season of the series yet. The Reacher star gave fans a behind-the-scenes peek on Instagram, teasing his return as the no-nonsense nomad with a photo dump that included stunt training and wardrobe fittings. He captioned it with a confident tease: 'Season 4 is right around the corner, and dare I say… May be the best season yet?' While Amazon hasn't confirmed a start date for filming, it's pretty clear from the post that things are ramping up behind the scenes. Ritchson's body is already in go-mode, too: 'Back into stunts with Buster, Eric, and team. Season 4 is going to be the most intensely physical season yet. My body is ready.' That's the most substantial update fans have gotten about Season 4 since the series was renewed. For those keeping track, Season 3 ended with Reacher dismantling a drug operation in Maine before quietly slipping away once more, duffel-less as always. We still have yet to learn which Jack Reacher novel Season 4 will adapt. Season 1 pulled from The Killing Floor , Season 2 tackled Bad Luck and Trouble , and Season 3 dove into Persuader . The new photos include a cozy shot of Ritchson with author Lee Child, suggesting the creator is still closely involved, and most likely helping shape where Reacher heads next. Ritchson joked about Child: 'I wish everyone had the good fortune of being best friends for life with this man like we are,' 'Because we are best friends and he is adopting me officially soon, I think.' Before Reacher returns, though, fans will meet another familiar face in a spin-off: Neagley . The show centers on Reacher's trusted ally Francis Neagley (played by Maria Sten) as she dives into a revenge-fueled investigation after a friend's suspicious death. The spin-off is expected to arrive in 2026, and while it's not clear if Ritchson's Reacher will make an appearance, he has been spotted on set. 'Stopped by the Neagley set to see my dear friend Maria Sten, who is absolutely crushing it,' he shared. No release date yet for Reacher Season 4, but based on what we've seen so far, fans should be ready for a heavier dose of fists, grit, and Reacher justice.
Forbes
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Reacher' Star Alan Ritchson Films ‘Neagley' Cameo And Teases Season 4
Alan Ritchson has been spotted filming a cameo for the Reacher spinoff series Neagley with Maria Sten and is teasing Reacher Season 4. Reacher, of course, is the massively popular Prime Video series based on author Lee Child's Jack Reacher book series. Season 1 of Reacher debuted on the streaming platform in 2022, followed by Season 2 in 2023 and Season 3 in 2025. One of Ritchson's co-stars who appeared in a recurring role throughout all three seasons is Sten, who plays his fellow Army Military Police investigator Frances Neagley. In October of 2024, Prime Video gave the green light to Neagley, which naturally begged the question of whether Ritchson would appear in Sten's series. In a Zoom conversation prior to the release of Reacher Season 3 in February, Ritchson and Sten playfully teased the possibility. 'That would make sense, but we cannot confirm that it would make sense,' Ritchson said. 'It just makes sense in a of hypotheticals," while Sten added, 'Yes, we can neither confirm or deny such rumors.' 'Like if he popped in for a couple of episodes,' Ritchson continued 'But it could happen.' 'It could happen,' Sten added. 'But who knows?' Now, Ritchson's appearance in Neagley has been confirmed. In a post by Marquee Sports on X on Saturday, Ritchson and Sten were pictured filming a scene for Neagley at Wrigley Field in Chicago. To prove that Ritchson wasn't Chicago — where Neagley is set — to merely catch a game with Sten, a post by X user Erik House includes a photo with a camera operator filming a scene. Another post by X user Al Yellon shows that Ritchson and Sten weren't actually filming during an actual Chicago Cubs game, but were in the stands with loads of extras in a section of an otherwise empty Wrigley Field. Alan Ritchson personally chronicled his Chicago visit with an Instagram post on Wednesday, where he is pictured in photos on the set of Neagley with Maria Sten, Lee Child and various cast and crew members from the Reacher spinoff series. Of his visit with the Jack Reacher book author, Ritchson wrote in the Instagram post, 'Reacher himself, Lee Child. I wish everyone had the good fortune of being best friends for life with this man like we are, because we are best friends and he is adopting me officially soon I think.' Also included in Ritchson's Instagram post are photos of Ritchson doing prep work in advance of Reacher Season 4. 'Back into stunts with Buster, Eric and team. Season 4 is going to be the most intensely physical season yet. My body is ready,' Ritchson wrote in the Instagram post. In another photo, Ritchson, who is pictured by wardrobe, writes, '[It's] Ritchson concluded the post by writing, 'Season 4 is right around the corner and dare I say … May be the best season yet?' Neagley, of course, will arrive on Prime Video before Reacher Season 4, although the streamer has yet to announce an official release date. The official logline for Neagley reads, 'Frances Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago. When she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident, she becomes hell-bent on justice. "Using everything she's learned from Jack Reacher and her time as a member of the 110 Special Investigators, Neagley puts herself on a dangerous path to uncover a menacing evil.' Neagley also stars Greyston Holt, Jasper Jones, Adeline Rudolph, Matthew Del Negro and Damon Herriman. The first three seasons of Reacher are available on Prime Video.
Telegraph
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Lee Child: I returned to Britain the moment Trump was voted in
Coventry-born, raised in Birmingham, James Grant (AKA Lee Child) is the second of four sons. He studied law before joining Granada Television, where he worked for 18 years as a presentation director and union shop steward. After redundancy in 1995, he started writing, and published his first Reacher novel, Killing Floor, in 1997. He moved to the United States in 1998 with his American wife, Jane, with whom he has an adult daughter, Ruth. Since 2020, he has moved back to the Lake District and has been writing with his younger brother Andrew. Best childhood memory? Growing up, the times were such that we peeled out of the house after breakfast and probably didn't show up again until dusk. Roaming around, that freedom, that self-determination, especially during summer vacation, day after day, that's about the last time you have it like that because pretty soon you're in secondary school, and then work, with every day a minefield of duty and responsibility. Those were the days when you had absolutely nothing to do other than please yourself. Strangely, that feeling came back during the pandemic. I was on my remote ranch in Wyoming, with months of nothing to do, infinite space and no guilt of saying no to people. I was a Booker Prize judge in 2020, so I had 153 books to read between January and July. I read non-stop and loved it. Best part of writing with your brother? While there are four of us boys, it was really like there were three of us, who were each three years apart, and then along came Andrew when we were all grown up, so effectively it was like he was an only child. With my two other brothers, there's no way it'd have been possible to write collaboratively because we experienced all the stresses and irritations of growing up together. But Andrew and I never did. He never wrecked my toys, none of that sort of stuff, so there's no negative history. That's why it's worked so well. He's still based in Wyoming – I think he'll stay. He's much younger, more obstinate and won't be chased out. I'm older, I'm tired, and I can't deal with the hassle of the US right now. Best thing about Reacher being adapted for TV? I feel like I'm getting to relive my career all over again by focusing on the TV series and watching the public's reactions. The casting was fantastic. It's great fun working with Alan Ritchson, who's born for the part and is a genuinely nice guy. Best part of moving back to the UK? I loved my life in the US, but I had a growing homesickness and jumping back and forth on a plane was impractical, especially as I got older. Ruth has stayed on in New York. She's stronger and braver. I feel simultaneously really happy and positive about starting out again in the UK, and really sad about quitting the US. But I just want to take it easy, not worry and concentrate on daffodils and stuff like that. I love the peace and isolation here. I've sold my prized Jaguar and gone are my performance V8 cars, replaced by a more practical hybrid for countryside terrain. I can't wait to get a dog; we haven't had one for a long time. And I'll get to watch my beloved Aston Villa in person. They're doing great; a lot of money is being pumped into the team, and they have the potential to be a top-four club. Best personal trait? Diligence. It comes from where I grew up in a manufacturing city like Birmingham. They got the work done, no fuss, no drama. Do it once, do it right. Best lesson you've learnt? You've got to do it your way. When it comes to writing, the book has to have a beating heart of its own, and the only way to get that is for it to be a product of your imagination. You may run into a million doubts; John Grisham doesn't do this; Stephen King does that. If you start listening to these voices, then it becomes a committee decision, and the life is beaten out of it. So that's why you have to do it your way, even if you're certain that people will hate it. You've got to step back and think, if I love it, there's bound to be other people like me that will love it too. From the publishing side, while writing is incredibly personal and can be lonely at times, there's a huge team behind any product, so you have to become very defensive of your own point of view while being a team player. You always need to be the person they want to back that year. Best advice? Very early on in my writing career, I ended up in a little group of writers, including Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben. We were all completely obscure at the time. We had two sayings – 'Keep showing up' and 'One of us will eventually make it'. And we all did. Michael was the first, illuminating the ladder for the rest of us. Harlan also told me: 'If you've got a choice, go where the love is, not necessarily the most money.' I've always done that. I want to work with people I like and who respect me, not just people who want me because they think I'm going to be commercially successful and make them lots of money. Best thing about your success as a writer? I was 50 before I had any sort of prominence or money. And by then, your personality is set, you know who you are. It's really that old cliché; I really haven't changed a bit, except now I can afford it. I grew up close to the Jaguar factory, and it was a period when we didn't have much stuff. I'm like any other boomer; I buy what I secretly wanted when I was a teenager. I desperately wanted a guitar when I was younger, but couldn't possibly afford it. Now I have a collection of them, although admittedly I'm not a good player! And books – I was probably 40 years old before I would buy hardcover books because they're expensive. I'd always wait until the paperbacks came out or growing up, they made it to the library. Worst thing about the US right now? Right after Trump won the election, we came with just our suitcases and a few boxes to start over. We'll eventually ship some books and a few paintings. I know I've made the right decision because you can't really escape the news, and if I'd stayed, it'd have been 24/7, and my face would have exploded. The whole world is a potential victim of someone with unbelievable egotism and insecurity. It's incredible that we've reached this point. Insane is the only word. Worst habit or trait? I'm too rational. It's just my nature. I don't do any spontaneous romantic things, all the traditional things guys are expected to do, like buy their wives flowers. If I buy Jane flowers, they're never going to be as nice as the ones that she grows herself in the beautiful garden she's created. I clearly don't understand her frustration. I'm also a reformed workaholic – I used to feel pre-programmed just to work, work, work. Like a lot of entertainers, we're doing it to seek the love and approval we didn't get when we were younger. When I did step back, people asked, 'Are you happy now you've retired?' and it's actually the reverse, I retired because now I'm happy. After all these years, I finally accepted that I have done something worthwhile, I am a good person and I'm a success. That was quite a revelation in my mid-60s, and my workaholic drive went away. By that time, my parents had passed away (dad in 2016 and mum in 2017), and in a way, I felt my life was truly beginning again. Worst challenge? Being broke and having a family to support after I was made redundant at Granada. Reacher was born out of frustration at my dining table. A lot of writers may take five, 10 years to craft their first novel. For me, it was an absolute necessity that I write something quickly, and something that really focuses my mind. It makes you do it in a way that you cast aside all your worries. Ruth was already 15 when I wrote Killing Floor. Unlike my father, Ruth never had any doubts at all because I was her dad, I could do anything. The success of Reacher is beyond my wildest dreams. Being a writer is great, if you're successful, it often happens late. Worldwide, between the books, TV and films, Reacher is a multi-billion-dollar franchise. My mum only realised I was successful when she overheard people talking about my books at the hairdressers. When they moved back to Wales and needed a bridging loan unexpectedly, I became the bank of the black sheep. But I was happy to do it for them. Worst part of your job? The personality type that migrates towards being a writer, we're generally shy. Writing is show business for shy people. It's an isolating job – there is no automatic connection between you as a physical person and the consumer, not like an actor or a football player. The promotion style that we cope with these days is very performative and requires people liking you as a speaker. That's difficult for all of us, even if we have become good at it. I went through a long middle period in my writing career where I felt very self-conscious about what I looked like and what I sounded like, even what I was wearing. I felt scrutinised. Worst day at work? I've loved giving myself a cameo in each of the Reacher series. In the first series, I'm in episode eight, right at the very end. Reacher goes to the diner to have a last cup of coffee with Finlay, the detective, before hitting the road. As he enters the diner, I'm leaving it, and we collide in the doorway. I was due to film my cameo in the second series in January 2022, in Toronto, just as the region was hit by an awful polar vortex. The actors were in heated tents with heated suits and gloves, and then a second before the take, they would strip that kit off. The conditions were hellish for everyone, and it slowed filming right down. Worst thing in the news? All over the world, not just the US, the assumptions that we grew up with – that progress was inevitable, even if it was two steps forward, one step back – are being decimated. Growing up in the post-war era, I remember the feeling that no one ever wanted to go through that ever again, but now we're seeing a dramatic reversal because people no longer remember that time and the lessons from it. Now it's just like 'What the f--k?' while watching the news. It's absolutely insane. 'What the f--k?' is the only possible reaction because it's a waste of time to try and figure out the endgame. Everybody is just seizing what power and spoils they can. It's profoundly unsettling when a basic assumption you've held all your life is apparently not true. I've met a lot of these mega-billionaires in Trump's court, and the idea that they're invested in something as fundamentally unstable as his presidency seems unlikely to me. I'm wondering if the 25th Amendment [a mechanism that can oust a sitting president from office] will get invoked, Trump will get removed, and they'll put in Vance, a total puppet, and they'll be able to run it more efficiently. Trump is trying to create an illusion, with these nasty childish insults about other nations, that he knows best, he knows the inside scoop, and is more plugged in than anyone else anywhere. He makes ludicrous statements that no one calls him out on. The only upshot is that we in the UK and Europe need to encourage a reverse brain drain, so we can attract the quality scientists and other talented professionals who want to leave. Worst pet peeve? This may sound trivial, but as a words person, it really annoys me that assembly instructions for everything now are done in ridiculous pictograms, placing the burden on the consumer to decipher them, so you've got to invent your own way of building it without losing your mind. Not only is the labour being dumped on the consumer, it's about saving money. It's part of the systemic loss of literacy.
Forbes
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Étoile' Dethroned In Amazon Prime Video's Top 10 List By A New Show
Etoile Étoile has been a solid new addition to Amazon Prime Video's original line-up, arriving as a compelling comedy/drama from the creator of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino. But the rare, binge-watch release has now lost its place to arguably the strongest show in Amazon's lineup. That would be the resurgence of Reacher season 3, the action series based on the Lee Child books that positively dominates Amazon charts all year round, almost never leaving the top ten and now, back at #1 despite ending all the way back in March, over a full month ago. There have not been any new episodes or follow-up specials issued, this is just how popular the series is, and why it's getting a spin-off and indefinitely renewed seasons, most likely. Top 10 Étoile has not been renewed for season 2 yet, but given its performance and it's relatively low cost, I would not worry in the least about that happening, as it's not a matter of if, but when. Amazon Prime Video is already more generous than most with its show renewals, as they produce far less series than Netflix and want to get the most out of them. So I expect that to happen with at least a few more seasons of Étoile. Mrs. Maisel ran for five seasons, after all. The Summer I Turned Pretty has shot all the way to #3 from rewatches ahead of its third and final season which does not air until July 16, but people are getting a head start early, it seems. Easily the best show on the list right now is The Wheel of Time, which has always been solid but this was an amazing third season that I suggest everyone watch, and this show is far and away better than its more expensive fantasy counterpart, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which Amazon may not love, given its enormous investment in the latter. Powerhouse series Invincible and Houses of David are still hanging on at #8 and #9, both renewed for new seasons already. There's also a new reality series, Wear Whatever the F You Want, a reprisal of What Not To Wear in a…more kind format, I guess? Sounds odd, certainly, but at #7 it's doing well already. We will see how long Reacher stays on top, but I do not expect it to leave this list at all until season 4 is released some time next year. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Express Tribune
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Reacher season 4 confirmed with Alan Ritchson as Prime Video plans 2026 release and Neagley spinoff
Prime Video's hit action-thriller Reacher, starring Alan Ritchson, is officially returning for a fourth season, the platform announced in October 2024. The renewal came ahead of Reacher Season 3, which premiered on February 20, 2025, and concludes with Episode 8. Season 3 is based on Persuader, the seventh novel in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Set in Boston, it follows Reacher as he teams up with DEA agent Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) to investigate a suspected drug smuggling operation run by luxury rug dealer Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall). Reacher is also pursuing Beck's associate, Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), responsible for murdering one of Reacher's former Army colleagues. Although there are 29 novels in the Jack Reacher series, the source material for Season 4 hasn't been confirmed. In an interview with Business Insider, author Lee Child expressed interest in adapting The Midnight Line—his 22nd novel, which explores the opioid crisis from a compassionate perspective. Ritchson has said that the decision-making process around which book to adapt involves collaboration between showrunner Nick Santora, producers, and longtime Reacher fans behind the scenes. While no premiere date has been set, past production timelines suggest Reacher Season 4 could arrive between April and May 2026. Season 1 premiered in February 2022, followed by Season 2 in December 2023 after delays caused by industry-wide strikes. Meanwhile, a spinoff series titled Neagley, focused on Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), was announced just before the Season 4 news and is already in production, according to Variety. Ritchson hinted at a possible guest appearance, though nothing is confirmed. Prime Video remains committed to expanding the Reacher franchise with more stories and characters from Lee Child's universe.
