“Reacher”: Prime Video’s hit series to get first spin-off

Amazon is currently working hard on a third season of the action series “Reacher” with Alan Ritchson for Prime Video, which has quickly developed into an international audience. The success of the series based on the novels by Lee Child is now to be built upon with a first spin-off, reports Deadline.

This time the focus is on Jack Reacher's former colleague and good friend Frances Neagley, played by Maria Sten. In the planned opening season of “Neagley'”As the (working) title of the series spin-off is, there will also be a reunion with Ritchson as Jack Reacher in a guest role.

Frances Neagley was a member of the 110th Company's Special Investigators team, as was the former military policeman Jack Reacher. The character was introduced into the series for the first time in the first season, even though she does not appear in the novel that was the basis for the season. The situation is reversed in season 2 of the series, where Frances plays a central role alongside Jack, just as she did in the book (“Bad Luck and Trouble”). The actress was promoted to the main cast – partly due to her high level of popularity.

Since the two form such a successful and popular team, Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley in the third season, even though her character is missing from the book (“The Janus Man”, original title: “Persuader”). In it, Reacher goes undercover to free an informant who is being held captive by an adversary from the past.

“Neagley” is once again being developed by “Reacher” series creator Nick Santora, together with “Prison Break” writer Nicholas Wootton, who will serve as showrunner for the spin-off. Like the original series, “Neagley” is a production of Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance Television.

Santora and Wootton are responsible for producing the film, along with author Lee Child, Don Granger, Lisa Kussner, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg. The project has not yet received an official green light, but this will certainly change soon, as the drafting of contracts is well advanced.