REACHER Series actor Alan Ritchson shares Jack Reacher story he wants to adapt more

Alan Ritchson he was amazing playing Jack Reacher in the Prime Video series Reach! That first season was based on the first book in Lee Child’s novel series, “Killing Floor,” and showrunner Nick Santora made sure the story stayed true to the author’s vision for the story.

The second season of the series, currently in development, will adapt the eleventh novel in the book series, “Bad Luck And Trouble.” The series follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has just entered civilian life and finds himself involved in some crazy situations involving him beating people to death.

“Bad Luck and Trouble” begins “as members of Reacher’s old military unit start turning up dead. Reacher has only one thing in mind: revenge.”

While I’m excited for Season 2, there is one story Ritchson wants to see adapted more than any other. That book is “Die Trying,” which is the second book in the series. During an interview with /Film, the actor opened up about wanting to tell this story, saying:

“Not all of the ‘Reacher’ books would translate well to the screen, I think, but there are only a few. The rest, I desperately want to do. I loved ‘Killing Floor’, and I quickly understood why it was done this way.” well. ‘Die Trying’, the second book I picked up, was filled with so many of the attributes that I think both translate well into a movie and that I would really enjoy bringing to life. I hope at some point I get to do ‘Die Trying.'”

After the events of “Killing Floor,” the story of “Die Trying” finds Reacher in Chicago where he stops to help a young woman with her laundry bags when he and the girl are kidnapped and thrown into a van. Here is the description of this book:

Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman being kidnapped on a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he is kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stuffy van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now she must save them both, from the inside out, or die trying…

This is definitely a great story and I’m sure it will be adapted at some point as long as the series continues to be successful.

Ritchson has also previously expressed interest in adapting the tenth book in the series, “The Hard Way.” That story finds Reacher helping to rescue the wife and stepson of a director of a private military company, who have been kidnapped. Here is the description of that story:

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, enjoying the warm, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive away. The car contained a million dollar ransom because Edward Lane, the man who paid for it, would do anything to get his family back.

Lane runs a highly illegal mercenary operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and his son. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.

On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher uncovers chilling secrets from his employer’s past. . . and a horrible drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher knows this too: he’s already in too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.

No matter which Jack Reacher books they adapt, Ritchson is obviously having a lot of fun playing this character. That first season was great, and I hope the show has a long enough life to tell these Reacher stories and more!