Reacher star Alan Ritchson has revealed that he knows which of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels is set to be adapted for the new Amazon series’ second season.
The show was renewed just three days after its debut on the streaming platform, with Amazon saying that Reacher ranked in its top five most-watched series ever in the US and globally over a 24-hour period.
The eight-episode first season was based on the first of Lee Child’s best-selling Jack Reacher novels, 1997’s Killing Floor.
The 37-year-old star, who plays giant drifter and ex-military man Jack Reacher, took part in a Reddit AMA session on Friday, where he responded to a fan’s question on whether he had any idea which of best-selling author Child’s 26 books would form the basis of the next season.
The actor teased: ‘Yes I know the next book. I’ve agreed not to say yet.’
He then added: ‘Sorrrrryyyyyy!!!!’
The former Smallville and Titans star also referenced how keen he was to shoot as many seasons of Reacher as possible.
In response to one fan’s question over if he was ‘fully prepared to do 24 [sic] seasons if we keep watching’, Ritchson wrote: ‘I would. I asked if we could shoot two a year so we can pull it off.’
Good to know that getting through all the novels isn’t entirely off the table then…
Child had previously joked that he was up for adapting as many books as possible for TV, telling press: ‘By October, they’ll be 27 books. So there’s 26 more seasons to go by which time I’ll be about a hundred, and that would work for me.
Speaking ahead of Reacher’s renewal, showrunner Nick Santora also gave his thoughts on what route they would take with possible future seasons, suggesting that they might not necessarily go in chronological order.
‘If we are lucky enough and fortunate enough to get a second season, we don’t know if it will be [second book] Die Trying, we’re not sure. We might go in order, we might go out of order,’ he said.
‘I really have great partners in the studio and the network and Lee Child of course and everyone just gets together and we have a discussion and we figure things out, and that’s what we’ll do.’