Lee Child Officially Confirms Why Alan Ritchson Was the Right Jack Reacher Replacement [Exclusive]

Sometimes a casting brief doesn’t need to be particularly complicated. When the time came to find a new Jack Reacher for Prime Video’s Reacher, Lee Child and the team behind the series had already learned one fairly important lesson from the character’s previous trip to the screen. This time, nobody was going to wonder whether the actor was big enough. That previous incarnation was, of course, Tom Cruise, who played Reacher in two movies beginning with Jack Reacherin 2012. Child has plenty of praise for what Cruise brought to the character internally, but the author’s books famously describe Reacher as a physically enormous man.