{"id":136874,"date":"2025-11-16T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/136874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:46:09","slug":"jack-reacher-author-lee-child-praises-prime-video-series-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/136874\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jack Reacher’ Author Lee Child Praises Prime Video Series Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDespite his literary hero previously getting the Tom Cruise<\/a> treatment on the big screen, Jack Reacher<\/a> author Lee Child<\/a> is most impressed with the books\u2019 Prime Video<\/a> series adaptation.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Reacher<\/a> heads into its fourth season with Alan Ritchson<\/a> as the titular ex-military police officer, the creator of the character praised the \u201crelentless non-stop pace\u201d and binge-worthy streaming format of the show, which was developed by Nick Santora<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat was the huge attraction, doing the long-form narrative that season-long TV gives you,\u201d Child explained to the ShortList<\/a>. \u201cIn the books, Reacher is fleshed out, he is a fully rounded character as much as he can be. With light and shade and loud and quiet. In the books, that\u2019s obvious, but of course for a short-format adaptation that gets compressed and misses a lot, but we had the time to show it all and that was one of the things that I was most excited about and also makes it all the more effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPremiering in 2022, the first season of Reacher was based on Child\u2019s 1997 debut novel Killing Floor, with the subsequent seasons pulled from Bad Luck and Trouble (2007) and Persuader (2003). Currently in production, Season 4 is based on Gone Tomorrow (2009).<\/p>\n

\n\tChild continued, \u201cMy theory is that if you have relentless non-stop pace that\u2019s the same thing as having no pace at all. What you need is to show the differences, the quiet parts make the action parts even more effective. And so that was the thrill and the fun of doing a whole season on one story.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTom Cruise and Lee Child<\/a> in \u2018Jack Reacher: Never Go Back\u2019 (2016) (Paramount\/Kobal\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it is addictive for a novelist,\u201d he said. \u201cI can guarantee that if streaming television had been around before, no novelist would ever have chosen anything else, because this works so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore Ritchson took over the role, Tom Cruise starred in the movies Jack Reacher (2012) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his literary hero previously getting the Tom Cruise treatment on the big screen, Jack Reacher author Lee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,85141,85142,11098,85143],"class_list":{"0":"post-136874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jack-reacher","12":"tag-lee-child","13":"tag-prime-video","14":"tag-reacher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}