EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette (Barry) has joined Reacher Season 4 reverse Alan Ritchson in a recasting, Deadline has realized.
Rodriguez-Marquette will play Jacob Merrick, a small-town policeman. He takes over the position — which is claimed to be a meaty one this season — from Jay Baruchel, who was compelled to exit the collection to take care of a private matter. Baruchel had solely been introduced as becoming a member of the solid a few weeks in the past.
Sources stated that a part of what was notable concerning the expertise for Rodriguez-Marquette is that he was solid the identical day the breakdown for the position went out, and was flown out to set inside a few days.
Created by Nick Santora, who additionally writes, execs produces and serves as showrunner, Reacher is predicated on the novels by Lee Baby. The fourth season of the dramatic actioner adapts the thirteenth guide within the world bestselling collection, Gone Tomorrow. When an opportunity encounter with a distraught stranger on a practice goes horribly mistaken, Jack Reacher (Ritchson) is drawn into a posh and lethal sport that pits him towards ruthless foes from the best echelons of energy.
As lately introduced, Sydelle Noel, Agnez Mo, Indonesian-French singer Anggun, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, and Kathleen Robertson can even all be new additions this season.
Reacher is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Skydance Tv, and CBS Studios. Along with Santora and Baby, Ritchson serves as an govt producer, together with Don Granger, Scott Sullivan, Mick Betancourt, Lisa Kussner, Sam Hill, Amy Pocha & Seth Cohen, and David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance. Carolyn Harris and Kenny Madrid are the executives-in-charge of the collection for Skydance Tv.
The third season of Reacher debuted in February 2025 and shortly turned probably the most watched returning collection ever for Prime Video.
Just lately recurring on HBO’s lauded darkish comedy Barry, Rodriguez-Marquette has simply wrapped filming a lead position within the horror anthology indie Grind. Different function credit embrace I Hate the Man in My Basement, directed by Dustin Cook dinner; Concern, Inc, directed by Vincent Masciale; Chokeslam reverse Amanda Crew; and Damaged Horses reverse Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin. His TV credit embrace appearances on Amazon’s Mozart within the Jungle, the second season of Black Capsule’s digital collection All Flawed, The Fugitive for Quibi, and Joan of Arcadia for CBS.
Rodriguez-Marquette is repped by CESD, Strand Leisure, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
