OTTplay Now You Know - Reacher

Today’s podcast on the lesser-known facts about popular films or TV shows is on the new critically acclaimed Amazon Prime TV series, Reacher, starring Alan Ritchson. Based on Lee Child’s popular series of Jack Reacher novels, the franchise was previously adapted into an action film starring Tom Cruise. I'm your host Nikhil, Let's kickoff some trivia now.

• Alan Ritchson went through all of Lee Child’s 24 novels on Jack Reacher as a way to prepare for his role in the series. Prior to the filming of the series, Alan Ritchson weighed 205lbs but still had to increase by 30lbs to fit the look of the gigantic figure of Jack Reacher. In order to achieve that, Ritchson was provided with a continuous supply of food on set.
• Oddly, the showrunner Nick Santora never once met Alan Ritchson (the main star of the series) or writer Lee Child in person. This is quite unconventional for a show of such a sizable budget and production value. Crucial processes of design, casting, even writing, were done over zoom calls. In fact, Santora was yet to meet Ritchson and Child face-to-face at the time of the first season’s premiere on Amazon Prime.
• Author Lee Child, on whose Jack Reacher novels the show is based, himself makes a blink-and-miss cameo appearance on Reacher. He plays a man who briefly exchanges glances with Alan Ritchson’s Jack Reacher while he’s entering the diner in the final moments of the first season. Child had also made appearances in the Tom Cruise films.
• The novels depict Reacher as being in the languages English, French and German. He speaks or understands no other language, as per the novels. However, in the series in the seventh episode, Reacher is seen interacting fluently in Arabic with a cab driver.
• The casting of Tom Cruise for the 2012 film was met with backlash as Cruise’s height 5'7” and 79 kgs frame was significantly smaller than Lee Child’s description of the character with a bulking physique of 6’5”tall and 113 kgs. However, the new Jack Reacher, Alan Ritchson, stands at 6’2” and is closer in appearance to the character created by Lee Child.
• Lee Child dedicated an entire paragraph in the novels to describe Jack Reacher’s unique footwear, describing even the finest of details, including the material, stitching, thickness, sole, size, color, and style. But in the new series he is shown to wear generic boots without any attention to detail provided by the creators.

If you haven't watched the series Reacher yet do so the newest episodes are streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Well that's the OTTplay Now You Know for today's episode, I shall be back again with a new podcast pretty soon, until then it's your host Nikhil signing out.

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