Reacher Star Says White Supremacist Plot Was Dropped After Trump's Reelection

huffpost.com — September 22, 2026 at 01:01 AM UTC

Actor Alan Ritchson said a planned "Reacher" season based on a novel involving a white supremacist militia was scrapped after Donald Trump's 2024 reelection, implying political sensitivity caused the change. Ritchson made the claim on Threads, confirming the 1998 book "Die Trying" was his favorite and had been approved for adaptation until the election result. The show's fifth season will instead adapt the novel "Make Me," and Amazon Prime has not commented on the claim. Ritchson, a vocal Trump critic, has previously called the president a "rapist and a con man" and criticized the church's support for him. He also faced backlash from a White House spokesperson who called him a "talentless hack" following his remarks about the Epstein files.

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