With all due respect to Christopher McQuarrie’s fiercely rewatchable “Jack Reacher,” Ritchson handily wins the contest for playing the best Jack Reacher between him and Cruise. Be that as it may, Ritchson assuredly has nothing but respect for some of the wilder stunts Cruise has performed over the years, particularly the white-knuckle halo jump from “Mission: Impossible — Fallout.” Speaking to ScreenRant, Ritchson confirmed he would love to do a skydiving sequence of his own, preferably one that involves Reacher clocking goons on the way down. Here’s how he described his personal bucket list of stunts he’s itching to execute:
“Oh, dude. Yeah. Well, some good motorcycle stunts, I would love. I like to ride. I’d also like to do, like, aerial fights. Like, aerial skydiving fights. That would be the icing on the cake for me.”
With his exceptionally beefy build, Ritchson wouldn’t need to leap out of a plane to efficiently lay the smackdown on some hapless goons. Still, a “20,000-foot piledriver,” as ScreenRant put it, would be quite the spectacle. “A 20,000-foot! Exactly!” said Ritchson, laughing. “Just don’t be the guy who lands on the bottom, and you live!” Jack Reacher himself has fought evil-doers in just about every moving vehicle there is in Child’s original novels (airplanes included), so now it’s on showrunner Nick Santora to find a way to make it happen in season 3.
“Reacher” is streaming on Prime Video.