Reacher - Prime Video

[JonChalk]

Looking forward to this; finally a Reacher on the screen who's not a foot shorter and a hundred pounds lighter than written!

https://twitter.com/LeeChildReacher/status/1466438...

Edited by JonChalk on Thursday 2nd December 16:38

[nickfrog]

Yes casting Cruise was a little surprising to say the least.

[normalbloke]

nickfrog said:

Yes casting Cruise was a little surprising to say the least.

My FIL is into all the Reacher books and said the same. From my perspective having not read them, I thought both films were very good on their own merit. I will give the series a look.

[Pinkie15]

I've only recently started reading the books. Had no idea that physically Cruise is the antithesis of Jack.

But I can't get Cruise's voice as Reacher out of my head when reading them.

[GetCarter]

Reacher said nothing.

(You'll need to have read the books to get that).

[Sheets Tabuer]

Last name around?

I actually thought this was about Preacher and you'd left the P off

[Halmyre]

Cruise's casting addressed one problem I had with the books - namely, who would ever pick a fight with Reacher? Yet every time they lined up to take a pasting.

[epom]

Apparently Cruise got the movies made. No Cruise no movies.

[Cotty]

Looking forward to this. Although I did like the Tom Cruise versions.

[highway]

The actor playing Reacher here was excellent as Hawk in the surprisingly good “Titans” via Netflix. Has lots of charisma and presence. At least in that. It’s worth watching if you don’t hate the super hero gendre.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

highway said:

The actor playing Reacher here was excellent as Hawk in the surprisingly good “Titans” via Netflix. Has lots of charisma and presence. At least in that. It’s worth watching if you don’t hate the super hero gendre.

He's a really good comic actor. He's superb in blue Mountain high or whatever it's called. He plays Thad the dumb jock.

Not sure I can see him doing brooding implied threat.

[Cotty]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Not sure I can see him doing brooding implied threat.

Have you seen the trailer?


I didn't realise the trailer was in the Twitter link, but the direct Youtube link might be better for people who don't use Twitter.

Edited by Cotty on Thursday 2nd December 22:51

[SlimJim16v]

The trailer looks great.

[yellowjack]

SlimJim16v said:

The trailer looks great.

Yup. It looks like it could be excellent. Up until the last three outings I really enjoyed the books too. And despite going into them prepared to be disappointed I thought Tom Cruise did OK in the films. I just thought they made the wrong books into the movies. Nothing wrong with the films they made, I just felt other stories would have been a better showcase for the character's first on-screen outing.

The shame for me is that it's on Amazon Prime. I'm not a huge fan of Amazon's apparent desire to take over the world one delivery at a time, but it's not that. I'm just at saturation point with subscription channels already. I don't watch that much TV and the more channels I pay for the poorer the value-for-money gets as my attention is divided between yet more channels. Although I'm going to keep my eye on this thread and look for reviews elsewhere. If it goes down well then I might be tempted into a Prime trial, get Reacher watched, then quickly cancel it.

Alan Ritchson certainly has the build to depict Reacher without having to resort to the camera trickery and careful shot selection which was necessary with Tom Cruise. And his delivery of those quips in the trailer comes close to how I imagine Jack Reacher would be from reading the books. Does anyone know if it's one book per season, split into episodes to allow more time to tell the story compared to a movie? Or will it move between books during the season? I know the books aren't exactly highbrow classic literature, but they deserve to be handled with respect, not dicked about with and abridged to squash them down into a TV series.

[pquinn]

yellowjack said:

Does anyone know if it's one book per season, split into episodes to allow more time to tell the story compared to a movie?

Apparently the first season covers Killing Floor, so it would be one book per season.

[yellowjack]

pquinn said:

Apparently the first season covers Killing Floor, so it would be one book per season.

Cool!

Killing Floor is one of the better books. I really enjoyed it. It's a good one to start with because it explains a lot about how Reacher comes to be the way he is. Looks like I'm going to have to try this Amazon Prime thing, at least until I've watched this series.

[normalbloke]

SlimJim16v said:

The trailer looks great.

Agreed. I’m in.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Cotty said:

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Not sure I can see him doing brooding implied threat.

Have you seen the trailer?


I didn't realise the trailer was in the Twitter link, but the direct Youtube link might be better for people who don't use Twitter.

Edited by Cotty on Thursday 2nd December 22:51

I watched it after posting. I'll reserve judgement until I watch the series.

Yeah he's massive, but reacher in the books isn't described as a pretty boy / male model.

It does look fun though.

[cliffe_mafia]

Cotty said:

Looking forward to this. Although I did like the Tom Cruise versions.

Me too, I always end up sticking on them if I’m
flicking through the channels.

I’m looking forward to this, have read all of the books and the trailer looks great.

[Zetec-S]

As someone who's read all the books, I think the films were very good. But as someone who's read all the books, the films were not Jack Reacher.

Alan Ritchson looks pretty much like how I imagine Reacher when reading the books (ok, maybe a little too "male model", but close enough). Trailer looks good, I am very much looking forward to this