Amazon used to be Barnes & Nobel's biggest competitor, but then they expanded and became everyone's biggest competitor, especially in the streaming world. One way that the massive company is combining two of its most significant assets is to make films and series based on the books they sell so many of. From "Jack Ryan" and "Bosch" to "The Terminal List" and the upcoming "Alex Cross," every novel your dad loves has found a home on Amazon streaming.
One of last year's biggest hits was "Reacher," starring Alan Ritchson as the brutish version of Sherlock Holmes. Since Season 1 was based on (and virtually ripped straight from the pages of) book one, "Killing Floor," fans have been asking what books are on the docket for future seasons. While we know the second season is jumping ahead to Lee Child's 11th Reacher novel, "Bad Luck and Trouble," Empire wanted to know what other books the actor had in mind for Season 3 and beyond.
Ritchson spoke about how he would love to shoot four books a year and adapt all 26 novels in the franchise into TV seasons, but he had two novels in mind when asked what he wanted to see happen. "You know, I don't know if we're gonna go in an order or not. But I was so captivated by the first seven books. I raced through them in a week and a half, and I just loved each one. 'Die Trying' is an amazing book. 'The Hard Way,' there's some amazing books that would make great shows." Of course, when there are over two dozen books in a franchise, there are many great books to choose from. Are these the right ones?
When the first season appeared to be based on the first novel in the series, it was natural to assume the writers would simply go down the line and choose book two of the franchise for Season 2 of the Amazon series. "Die Trying" would have been an excellent follow-up to the debut season, with him facing a bigger and badder villain.
Where he faced a corrupt business owner, mayor, and other nefarious but ultimately small-time criminals in Season 1, Season 2 would have pitted him against a charismatic leader named Beau Borken. The plot centers around him being in the wrong place at the wrong time (the story of his life) when he is kidnapped by proximity along with an FBI agent who also happens to be the goddaughter of the President of the United States. While Borken wants nothing to do with her in actuality, he does want to use her as leverage to get the president to give in to his demand to secede from the union.
Not only is the villain a more formidable adversary than he faced in Season 1, but the action set pieces could also be bigger. Having an opportunity to pit Jack Reacher against a militia full of zealots following a gun-toting Jim Jones type would be the perfect time to watch him go all out in his action badassery. Not to mention, there is a terrifying scene where Reacher has to get away from his enemy by trying to crawl through a dark cave; as it gets smaller and smaller, you can almost feel the claustrophobia. This would be a great scene to adapt to the screen.
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