Reacher’s Alan Ritchson Snags Lead Role In Netflix Sci-Fi Movie War Machine

Summary

• Reacher
  star Alan Ritchson is taking the lead role in Netflix’s
  War Machine
  .
• The science fiction movie was co-written by its director Patrick Hughes.
• Ritchson’s as-yet unknown role is just one more of a long roster of upcoming performances from the star.

Alan Ritchson has boarded Netflix’s War Machine. The star, who has been working regularly onscreen since the mid-2000s in titles including Smallville, Blue Mountain State, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, came to greater prominence when he took the lead role in Prime Video’s Reacher. The show, which debuted in 2022, is based on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher book series and follows a drifter who uses his skills as an ex-Army military police major to help various people in towns around the United States.

Per Deadline, the Reacher star is set to take the lead role in the upcoming movie War Machine, which Lionsgate has developed and will now be officially distributed by Netflix. The movie was co-written by James Beaufort its director Patrick Hughes, who previously helmed The Expendables 3, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, its sequel, and Netflix’s The Man From Toronto. While Ritchson’s role is as yet unknown, the movie follows a group of Army Rangers nearing the end of their selection process when they face an unexpected threat.

Alan Ritchson Is A Hot Hollywood Commodity

This new project is just another feather in the cap for Alan Ritchson, whose role in Reacher has helped launch his career into the stratosphere. Already in 2024, he has appeared in Reacher season 2 and the faith-based movie Ordinary Angels, following his 2023 turn as Aimes in the hit franchise blockbuster Fast X. He doesn’t seem to be slowing down, as War Machine has become just one more title on a long roster of upcoming projects featuring the star.

Ordinary Angels
saw Ritchson star opposite two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank.

Ritchson is keeping an unusually busy schedule in the coming months. On top of his commitment to shooting Reacher season 3, he will be starring opposite Henry Cavill in the upcoming Guy Ritchie war movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which debuts in theaters on April 19. He is also currently in production on the Kevin James action-comedy Playdate in addition to recently being attached to the Timur Bekmambetov-directed actioner Motor City and the Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday comedy The Man with the Bag.

With so many projects in various stages of development, it remains to be seen how long it will take for War Machine to come to fruition. Filming for the Netflix movie will likely have to wait until Reacher season 3 production concludes, at the very least. Depending on how rigorous post-production will be, this could lead to a several-year wait for the new movie, but with so many titles coming in the meantime, Ritchson’s onscreen presence won’t be diminished during that time.

Source: Deadline