{"id":197738,"date":"2025-12-18T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:53:08","slug":"alan-ritchsons-reacher-replacement-recruits-a-peaky-blinders-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197738\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson’s ‘Reacher’ Replacement Recruits a ‘Peaky Blinders’ Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Ritchson<\/a> is headed back to the only screen big enough to contain him, and now he’s bringing a Peaky Blinders<\/a> star with him. Joe Cole<\/a> is set to star with Ritchson in an as-yet untitled action movie based on an incident from the dying days of the Vietnam War. The film will be produced by Amazon MGM Studios. <\/p>\n

According to reports<\/a>, Ritchson will play Navy SEAL Mike Thornton<\/a> in the film; trapped behind enemy lines with another SEAL and three members of the Vietnamese special forces in northern Vietnam, Thornton and his men were outnumbered 30-to-1 and under heavy fire. With the South Cina Sea their only avenue of escape, Thornton and his compatriots made a harrowing swim to safety; Thornton did so with two wounded men lashed to his body. After three hours of swimming, Thornton survived, as did his human cargo; he was subsequently awarded the US military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Thornton later became a founding member of SEAL Team Six. The film is part of Ritchson’s three-picture deal with Amazon, whose Prime Video is the streaming home of his his action series Reacher<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Who Is Joe Cole?<\/p>\n

London-born actor Cole played roles on the TV series The Bill, Skins, and The Thick of It before breaking out as John Shelby on the long-running period crime drama Peaky Blinders; he starred on the series for four seasons before meeting his tragic end. He subsequently starred on the British TV series Gangs of London<\/a>, The Ipcress File, and Nightsleeper. Big-screen roles include Green Room<\/a>, Thank You For Your Service, and The Damned<\/a>. He is set to appear in a number of upcoming productions, including the action thriller He Bled Neon, the drama I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, the Chris Hemsworth submarine thriller Subversion, and the Isabella Blow biopic The Queen of Fashion<\/a>, in which he will play late designer Alexander McQueen. <\/p>\n

The film will be directed by Patrick Hughes (The Hitman’s Bodyguard); he also directed Ritchson in the upcoming science fiction actioner War Machine<\/a>. Ritchson co-wrote the script with Mark Semos (SEAL Team) and Jason Hall (American Sniper<\/a>). Ritchson will also produce the film with Sylvester Stallone<\/a> and D. Matt Geller for Balboa Productions, Todd Lieberman for Hidden Pictures, Alex Young, and Alan Rautbort.<\/p>\n

Alan Ritchson’s untitled Navy SEAL movie is in development; no release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson is headed back to the only screen big enough to contain him, and now he’s bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-197738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}