Child has explained, "I thought that I would do a book that's not the same as everybody else's. Reacher's ex-military background was a specific and tactical choice on his behalf. On seeing this, Child's wife commented that if his writing career did not work out he could "always get a job as a reacher in a supermarket". The character's name first came to Child in a supermarket when an old lady, noting the span of Child's arms, asked for his help in reaching out to a can of pears. His name is short and commonplace, as opposed to quirky or unusual Reacher's personal ethics and wandering lifestyle are reminiscent of the chivalrous knight errant of medieval lore as opposed to an anti-hero tormented by addiction and haunted by past misbehavior. Similarly, editor Otto Penzler published an essay by Child explaining that Jack Reacher was created deliberately in contrast to the prevailing trends in crime fiction. Bob Cornwell quotes Lee Child's reply in another interview as having created Reacher "as an antidote, to all the depressed and miserable alcoholics that increasingly peopled the genre". It had to keep a roof over our heads, so it was totally, totally 110% commercially motivated." Ĭritics have perceived other influences in Jack Reacher's creation. According to Child, authorship was a purely pragmatic decision: "I wasn't one of these people that felt compelled to write.
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By showing Jack Reacher’s journey from its genesis, Amazon’s series has the chance of painting the character in a better light while also ensuring they can produce new seasons should the show prove to be successful. The two movies adapted Jack Reacher’s ninth and eighteenth Jack Reacher novels, respectively, failing to resonate with critics despite a favorable box office reception. The Jack Reacher books were previous adapted into a film in 20, with Tom Cruise starring as the titular character. RELATED: ‘Jack Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson on Scoring the Lead Role in the Amazon Series and What Fans Can Expect If this is the level of set-pieces we can expect from the whole series, we'll have an action-pack delight once Reacher premieres. Even though the prisoners have knives, Ritchson's Reacher doesn't take too long to drop all their bodies on the floor, bloodied and beaten, while only getting a few scratches himself. And it's glorious! Ritchson uses his impressive size to take down the welcoming committee he and another prisoner meet in the bathroom. Now, the new clip allows us to see the entire prison-brawl scene. The trailer also includes some thrilling scenes of a prison-bathroom brawl between Jack and half-a-dozens convicts who’ll need to eat through straws for a couple of weeks. The series first trailer already underlined how peace is not on the menu for the justice-serving military expert, who’ll have to fight to clear his name. In the first book, Reacher is accused of murder in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, where he tries to lead a peaceful life. The Jack Reacher novels focus on a retired military police officer who gets dragged into crime investigations and ends up punching his way out of conspiracies involving bad guys in positions of power. Reacher’s first season will adapt Child’s first novel, Killing Floor. Amazon released a new clip for Reacher, its upcoming series adaptation of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels starring Alan Ritchson as the fistfighting action hero.