Reacher
We know that the Reacher spin-off Neagley has just finished production, and now we have confirmation that production on Reacher season 4 itself has now started. Plus, we seem to know what book it’s adapting.
This week, the Amazon Prime Video Reacher Instagram account posted a teaser of a script indicating the start of production. But the nature of the photo itself has seemingly revealed the book that’s being adapted. The script sitting on a subway seat in New York’s MTA, which would imply that Gone Tomorrow, the 13th Jack Reacher book, is being adapted for season 4, given that it takes place in NYC and has Reacher riding the subway. Two other books, The Hard Way and Tripwire, also take place in NYC, but it’s almost certainly Gone Tomorrow. Here’s the synopsis for that book:
“New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn’t. And if you think Reacher isn’t going to get involved . . . then you don’t know Jack.”
“Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.”
Reacher
As for the release date update, we can do some calculations if production has just started now on Reacher season 4. Here are the release dates for the past seasons:
- Reacher season 1: February 2022
- Reacher season 2: December 2023
- Reacher season 3: February 2025
I covered this before, but to recap with some modifications:
“Reacher season 3 started filming in November 2023. Production wrapped in 2024 ahead of its February 2025 release date. So with filming and postproduction, that’s 15 months. And 15 months from June 14, the estimated filming start date, that takes us to mid-September 2026 for a release date. That’s 19 months between seasons, longer than the gap between seasons 2 and 3.”
So, if everything remains the same in terms of production time, that’s a year and a half between Reacher season 3 and 4. In the streaming era, that is actually on the low end of gaps between seasons, but far from the one-year spacing we used to get all the time. Still, it’s clear Amazon’s goal is to crank out as many seasons of Reacher as possible for as long as they can keep Alan Ritchson on board. Expect more filming updates to come, and Neagley is going to be airing during this gap period, though we don’t have a release date for that yet.
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