Alan Ritchson has tided fan anticipation for Reacher season 5 with a cheeky update on the production of the upcoming chapter. When it comes to pure action and unstoppable heroes, few shows rule the streaming world quite like Prime Video's hit action series. While fans wait impatiently for the next round of mystery and muscle, the team behind the scenes has been working at top speed up in Toronto. 

Giving everyone a fun, classic update straight from the set, star Alan Ritchson recently shared that production on the fifth season is almost at the finish line.

Production on the fifth chapter of Prime Video's hit action series, Reacher, is hurtling past the halfway mark, with leading man Alan Ritchson delivering a trademark, wisecracking progress report to eager fans on Threads. Currently setting up shop in Toronto, the cast and crew are bringing Lee Child's gripping twentieth novel, Make Me, to life.

“Over half way done filming… Means a baker’s dozen of dead goons… Winter is upon us… times four, carry the three… I don’t know like… ten years or less,” Ritchson said on Threads.

After the events of the polarizing season 4, the storyline kicks off with the nomadic hero casually stepping off a train in a remote, strangely named hamlet called Mother’s Rest out of sheer curiosity, only to be pulled into a terrifying rabbit hole when he teams up with a private investigator searching for a missing colleague. Thanks to Ritchson’s Threads declaration, we will soon find out what happens next in the story.  

Behind the returning powerhouse star, the upcoming season boasts a stellar ensemble cast. Amanda Ip joins the fray as private investigator Michelle Chang, alongside Jay Baruchel as Chief Buck Bauer, Ciara Bravo as Eunice, and Kevin Durand stepping in as the formidable Nokes.

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Interestingly, the show just roped in its villain for the fifth season almost a week ago.

The expanding ensemble for the upcoming fifth season of Prime Video's juggernaut action series has added a familiar face from network television past. Ari Stidham - best remembered by fans for his standout run on the hit CBS procedural Scorpion - is crossing over into prime-time brawling, landing a choice antagonist role opposite leading man Alan Ritchson. 

According to Deadline, Stidham is stepping into the shoes of Dean Lassider, a shady, morally bankrupt entrepreneur operating out of a sketchy desert strip club who works hand-in-hand with Kevin Durand's villainous character, Nokes. The casting choice also serves up a mini-reunion behind the scenes, reuniting Stidham with showrunner Nick Santora, the creative mastermind who originally brought Scorpion to life.

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