Reacher Season 3: Latest News, Release Date Prediction, What Book It's Based On, and More

Now that you're on the bus with a new toothbrush and a Clark Bar after finishing Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video's Reacher, it's time to start looking forward to Season 3. The action drama — based on Lee Child's books and starring Alan Ritchson as the gargantuan, meandering detective who roams from town to town with nothing but the clothes on his back — is one of Prime Video's biggest shows, thanks to its free-range spirit, hasty delivery of knuckle sandwiches, Ritchson's pitch-perfect punching performance, and an abundance of humor, and we expect we'll be seeing Reacher solving mysteries for a long time. 

But when will we get to see Season 3? What book will Reacher Season 3 be based on? And which actors will be in it? We have lots of questions, and we'll answer as many of them as we can. 

Reacher Season 3 latest news 

Almost a month after the announcement that Anthony Michael Hall and Sonya Cassidy were joining Season 3, Prime Video revealed the next group of actors we'll be seeing cowering in Reacher's shadow. On March 6, Deadline reported that Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Roberto Montesinos, and Daniel David Stewart have been cast in Reacher Season 3. Details on their characters can b found in the cast section.

Reacher Season 3 renewal 

On Dec. 2, 2023, Prime Video announced the Season 3 renewal from Brazil's CCXP Expo. Alan Ritchson shared the news in a video, as he is wont to do, along with an extended clip of Season 2. No official details about the upcoming season were revealed by Prime Video at the time of the announcement. 

Reacher Season 3 release date prediction

The good news is that Season 3 was already in production before Season 2 began airing, meaning the wait between Seasons 2 and 3 should be shorter than the break between Seasons 1 and 2. If all goes well, we can expect Season 3 sometime this year, likely toward the end of 2024. Season 2 began airing in mid-December; Season 3 should be able to at least match that premiere date in 2024.

Which book will Reacher Season 3 follow, and what will it be about?

On Jan. 24, Prime Video announced that Reacher Season 3 will be based on Persuader, the seventh book in the Reacher book series. The logline is "Reacher must go undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past." Prime Video's series is working on its own timeline and isn't following the order that Child's books were released. Season 1 was based on Killing Floor, the first book in the series, but Season 2 was based on Bad Luck and Trouble, the eleventh book in the series. 

Season 3 will put Reacher back on a lone wolf adventure instead of working with the 110th, his old military police team, like he did in Season 2. Parts of Persuader are set in Boston and Maine, and the season is filming in Toronto.

"We've picked [the book] up, it's chosen," Child told The Messenger's (and TV Guide writer) Liam Mathews before the Persuader announcement was made. "It's a good choice, I gotta say. I think we've been very creative about how we've sequenced the type of story." He continued, "We felt we needed a book that was more Reacher alone for the third season. And so it was a question of which story would work best for that, and which one would have a great opening scene and all of that, and we found one that we loved."

Back in December 2023, before Season 2 premiered, Ritchson told Collider, "There's no combining books, that I can tell you. There's enough meat on the bone in a book for a season of TV without needing to do that, generally speaking. But it's one of the favorites. I'll just say that. People are gonna like this book and it's gonna be one of the best seasons yet."

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Who will star in Reacher Season 3?

Alan Ritchson will be back as Reacher, or we riot. As for everyone else, the only other confirmed returning character is Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), who has been a big part of both seasons so far, but the level of her participation is not yet known. 

As Deadline reported on Feb. 8, Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club) and Sonya Cassidy (Lodge 49) were the first two major casting announcements of the season. Hall will play Zachary Beck, the owner of a rug import company whom Reacher suspects is using his business as a front for something highly illegal. Cassidy will suit up as DEA agent Sarah Duffy, who is said to be extremely smart and sarcastic.

On March 6, Deadline said Brian Tee will jump from one Prime Video show to another. Tee, who played Nicole Kidman's husband in Expats, will play Quinn, the season's villain who is a tough Lieutenant Army Colonel previously investigated by Reacher for selling secrets to enemies of the United States. Johnny Berchtold (The Passenger) will play Richard Beck, the son of Hall's Zachary Beck, and Roberto Montesinos will play retiring DEA agent Guillermo Villanueva, the mentor to Cassidy's character. Additionally, Daniel David Stewart will recur as rookie DEA agent Steven Elliot.

Given that Season 3 will go back to basics and send Reacher out on his own solo mission, it's no guarantee that we'll see Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan) or David O'Connell (Shaun Sipos), Reacher's pals from the 110th. (For his part, Ritchson has said that he wants to see more of the 110th.) We'd also suspect that Neagley will be used more sparingly, like she was in Season 1.

Fans of the show are clamoring for Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald) to return, but that's just not how Reacher and Reacher operate. The guy can't even keep the same set of clothes for a season; how's he supposed to maintain any sort of extended romantic relationship? On the flip side, Season 1 character Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin) made a brief appearance in Season 2, so familiar faces returning is not entirely out of the question.

Reacher Season 2 review

In his review for TV Guide, Kyle Fowle says Reacher Season 2 is bigger and better than Season 1, because it's "allowed to be as gratuitous, goofy, and bloody as it needs to be." Read the review here.

Reacher Season 1 review

We were impressed with the adaptation of Reacher for the small screen in Season 1, and especially loved the casting of Ritchson as Reacher. Though there was room for improvement, we breezed through the episodes. It should also be noted that we felt the series got better as the season went along right up to the finale, but were only able to watch the first five episodes for review. Here's our review.

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Where can I watch Reacher?

Reacher Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Prime Video.