“The detective was an alcoholic, which was great the first time out, a real issue, real characterization,” Child said of some contemporary noir stories. (The writer has long said that he set his books in the United States to give Reacher more room to roam.)Ĭreating him was partly a reaction against the troubled anti-heros that had become so fashionable that a kind of one-upmanship was setting in. Child usually compares Reacher to the knights-errant who wandered Europe in the Middle Ages, or the samurais of ancient Japan. He would just do what was necessary.”Įven if you are new to the Reacherverse, you might have figured out by now that he is on the side of good. “He’s always the biggest guy in the room and he knows it, so when he got into an altercation, he wouldn’t go overboard to take out an opponent. “He wouldn’t go out and seek a fight,” the supervising stunt coordinator, Buster Reeves, said in a video chat. The outcome is as predictable as Reacher’s coffee order, but still, it had to be clear that he does not relish violence for violence’s sake. One thing about Reacher that does not need explaining to the book’s fans - or to newcomers, after about half the pilot - is that he is a fighting machine who always ends up in a brawl or three. “We’ve got to keep them happy, which I think we totally have done, and at the same time make a show that anybody can just drop in and love.” “This is not necessarily about the book readers - we already got them,” he added. “It was a very faithful adaptation, in my opinion, compared to a lot of other stuff that you see,” Child said, “but it’s absolutely inevitable that you need to bring in other things to explain the character.” After all, word-for-word adherence to the source material may not, in itself, translate automatically to good television, especially since there is a huge potential audience out there that has not read a single line about Reacher.
Child did not mind (and approved the changes).
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