{"id":832613,"date":"2026-07-30T03:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832613\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:33:17","slug":"reacher-season-5-sets-cast-source-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832613\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reacher&#8221; Season 5 Sets Cast, Source Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/reacher-season-5-sets-cast-source-material.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/reacher-season-5-sets-cast-source-material.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"reacher-season-5-sets-cast-source-material\"\/><\/a>Amazon<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the show\u2019s fourth season premiere, Amazon Prime Video have set the cast for the fifth season of \u201cReacher,\u201d its smash hit adaptation of Lee Child\u2019s Jack Reacher novels.<\/p>\n<p>With it comes the confirmation that the next season will be based on the 20th book in the series, \u201cMake Me,\u201d which was published in 2015.  Production is already underway on the new run with star Alan Ritchson previously indicating the shoot will take up much of the back half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u202fAfter his train stops in the mysterious agrarian town of Mother\u2019s Rest, Jack Reacher teams up with private investigator Michelle Chang in the search for a missing colleague.  They uncover a dangerous and deadly criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Ip takes on the season\u2019s lead female role of Michelle Chang.  Also onboard are Jay Baruchel (\u201cBlackberry\u201d)\u202f as Chief Buck Bauer, Kevin Durand (\u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d) as Nokes and Ciara Bravo (\u201cVoicemails for Isabelle\u201d) as Eunice.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Baruchel was cast in the fourth season of the series but was forced to drop out due to a personal matter, and was replaced by Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette.  The production was keen to have him though, so he\u2019s come back for the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The new season of \u201cReacher\u201d kicks off on August 12th with the spin-off series \u201cNeagley\u201d launching the following month.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Line<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/varma-williams-gillen-join-young-sherlock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Varma, Williams, Gillen Join \u201cYoung Sherlock\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/tv-news-chad-carter-banks-sunny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV News: Chad, Carter, Banks, Sunny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Ahead of the show\u2019s fourth season premiere, Amazon Prime Video have set the cast for the fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-832613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}