Reacher season 4 spoilers: Meet the new Jacob Merrick

Reacher season 4 is actively in production, and there is apparently one major change that has already been made regarding casting.

According to a report from Deadline, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette has been officially brought in to be a major part of the Alan Ritchson drama. His role is that of Jacob Merrick, and it is technically a recasting — the part had originally gone to Jay Baruchel, who (per the publication) “was forced to exit the series to attend to a personal matter.” This sort of in-season change does happen here and there with shows, and we tend to think that if anything was shot previously with Jay, it can be redone and switched around.

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Now if you want to know more about the Merrick character, Prime Video notes that he is “a small-town policeman” and that is more or less it. On paper, though, that makes us think that we could be having a setting that is a little similar to season 1 — and could it feel almost like a buddy-cop movie this time around? If nothing else, that would be fun to see — and we do appreciate it that the show does consistently try to make each season feel rather different than the one that came before.

As for when Reacher season 4 is eventually going to premiere, we just hope that you are ready to wait for a good while. There is no evidence that the show will be back until at least mid-to-late 2026, and it could be even longer than that! In the short-term, our general belief is that Prime Video is going to prioritize the Neagley spin-off led by Maria Sten, as it is the show that wrapped production the earliest.

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