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Lee Child Endorses Prime Video’s Reacher as the Right Fit, With Season 4 in Production

He says the season-per-novel format preserves the character’s rhythm lost in film compression.

Overview

  • Season 4 is currently in production and adapts the 2009 novel Gone Tomorrow.
  • Child argues that nonstop action erases true pacing, saying quieter stretches make the action more effective.
  • He calls long-form streaming addictive for novelists and a better option than feature-length adaptations.
  • The series has drawn each season from a single book—Killing Floor, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Persuader—with Alan Ritchson starring after Tom Cruise’s earlier films.
  • Reports point to a Neagley spin-off in development, and Child says the film-adapted stories could be revisited for TV later but remain a back-burner idea.