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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: News: REACHER Renewed by Prime for Season #4
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:38:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Eddie Grove  <eddiegrove@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:
>
>> shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:30:26 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> As per Variety:
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/reacher-renewed-season-4-amazon-season-3-release-date-1236172458/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Renewed for season #4 before season #3 even airs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am curious to see if they recover from season #2, which most people 
>>>>> didn't like for "departing from the formula",
>>>>
>>>>They pretty much stuck to the book from beginning to end, and the book was
>>>>a bestseller, so I'm not sure what they should have done differently.
>>>>
>>>>> or if they double-down on season #2 and ignore the fundamental "Reacher
>>>>> is a lone wolf who takes 
>>>>> bad guys down all on this own!" premise of this.
>>>>
>>>>There have been many REACHER books that don't have him taking on everything
>>>>by himself. Even the first book/season he formed an ad hoc team with Willa
>>>>Fitzgerald and Malcolm Goodwin to take on the counterfeiters.
>>>>
>>>>Several of the Reacher books are set back in time when he was an Army MP
>>>>and involve him and his special investigators solving cases. Anyone who
>>>>says REACHER is fundamentally about him being a lone wolf and never working
>>>>with anyone else doesn't really know the source material.
>>>
>>>Well that's the question. Are the majority of the viewers people that
>>>would have liked the original books or are they more into what we saw
>>>in the movies and the first season. That is Reacher as the guy who
>>>goes his own way to take down the bad guys.  I liked both versions,
>>>the loner and the guy who leads a team, but I don't know if that's the
>>>same way most viewers feel.
>>
>> The Tom Cruise movies are let's get an actor shorter than me to play a
>> giant. At least in the tv show, we start with a tall man and get him to
>> bulk up so he's almost as large as Reacher. The first movie was
>> adequate. I've seen the second. It made no impression on me. I recall
>> nothing about it.
>>
>> Part of the reason he puts a team together is so he gets to work with a
>> woman who (compared to other women but not him) is reasonably tough that
>> he can sleep with. They skipped that in the movies.
>>
>> I've seen movies in which Cruise is part of an ensemble, so the decision
>> clearly wasn't his.
>
>Which decision?
>
>Cruise bought the movie rights to Reacher so that he could play him.
>Well, technically I guess it was his production company.

I forgot. You're right; I'm wrong. All the changes were Cruise's fault.

>Childs did not care because he liked the money.