I've read the books now and Reacher has some big shoes to fill, metaphorically speaking. The closer I got to that, the more familiar I became with the Reacher stuff. 'But when they came back around, they picked a few tapes that they'd seen already, and I was one of them, so they wanted me to come back and try again, and it worked out. 'There was a shake-up with who was casting, so they started again from scratch, and I'd already been passed on, as had everybody who did an audition,' he continued. I was like, 'Well, they wanna read me, but I know they're gonna find someone like Dwayne Johnson, who's a huge dude.' I auditioned for the part and it was good, it was just that my take on it was a little different than what they had in mind, at the time.' 'After working with Tom Cruise and a lot of fans being upset that he didn't really have the physicality, as great as he was in the role, they really wanted to get that right. I'm not exactly six foot five and I'm not exactly 250, and I had heard that they were being very specific with their physical demands,' Ritchson added. 'It's funny, I actually didn't get the role at first. Alan Ritchson, who also played Hank Hall/Hawk on DC's Titans, certainly fits the bill. When it came time for Amazon to produce a television adaptation of the franchise, the decision was made to go with an actor who had more of a physical resemblance to the character, who stands 6-foot-5-inches tall and weighs 240-pounds. Tom Cruise previously portrayed Jack Reacher in two Paramount Pictures films - 2012's Jack Reacher and 2016's Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Carpenter ( Devious Maids) as Mosley, Maxwell Jenkins ( Lost in Space) as Young Reacher, and Bruce McGill ( My Cousin Vinny) as Mayor Teale. Other cast members include Malcolm Goodwin ( iZombie) as Oscar Finlay, Willa Fitzgerald ( The Goldfinch) as Roscoe Conklin, Chris Webster ( Most Dangerous Game) as KJ, Hugh Thompson ( Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111) as Baker, Maria Sten ( Swamp Thing) as Frances Neagley, Harvey Guillén ( What We Do in the Shadows) as Jasper, Kristin Kreuk ( Smallville) as Charlie, Currie Graham ( Murder in the First) as Kliner Sr., Marc Bendavid ( Dark Matter) as Hubble, Willie C. Emmy-nominated writer Nick Santora ( Scorpion, Prison Break) pens the first season, and also executive produces and serves as showrunner for the Prime Video series. The first season of Reacher is based on Child's Killing Floor novel, the first of his Jack Reacher books.

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