Alan Ritchson on His “Crazy Week, But Reacher Season 4 Is Done, and He Says It’s His Best Yet
Alan Ritchson on His “Crazy Week, But Reacher Season 4 Is Done, and He Says It’s His Best Yet
Michael Prieve Thu, March 26, 2026 at 12:41 AM UTC
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Alan Ritchson was cleared by Brentwood, TN police after a viral video showed him fighting neighbor Ronnie Taylor, who admitted to shoving the actor first.
Ritchson returned to Instagram to announce he’s wrapped post-production on Reacher Season 4, calling it “without a doubt the most gripping season yet.”
No official premiere date has been set for Reacher Season 4, but Ritchson has confirmed the season is coming sometime in 2026.
Leave it to Alan Ritchson to wrap up one of the wildest weeks of his public life with a smile, a studio session, and a hype reel for his Prime Video action series.
On Wednesday morning, Ritchson took to Instagram to break a bit of news to his 5.2 million followers: he’s officially done with post-production on Reacher Season 4. The timing, to put it gently, was a choice — in the best way possible.
In the footage, he’s seen completing ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) for the next batch of episodes of the Prime Video hit series.
“Happy to be back in the booth after such a crazy week,” the actor shared, calling it the best season yet. “That’s a wrap for me on post-production — Reacher season four. This is without a doubt the most gripping season yet. I think we hit our stride. Firing on all cylinders…as it were.”
Understatement of the year, Alan.
Ritchson had been in the headlines this week for the wrong reasons following a violent altercation with neighbor Ronnie Taylor, which was caught on camera and published by TMZ. The clip spread like wildfire, and for a hot minute, it looked like America’s favorite fictional brawler had taken the job description a little too literally off-screen.
Taylor said the quarrel started to bubble over on Saturday morning, when he “heard this [incessant] revving” from the actor’s motorcycle. Then, on Sunday afternoon, Ritchson came around again on his bike with his two children.
“He rode past once, twice. On the second time, I walked outside in front of him and said, ‘You’ve got to stop,'” Taylor recalled to TMZ.
Alan Ritchson at the premiere of the Amazon Original Series The Wheel of Time held at the BFI IMAX in London ahead of its release on Prime Video on November 15 2021. Photo Credit: John Rainford/Cover Images/INSTARimages.com
Things went sideways from there. But here’s where the narrative turned: footage which appeared to originate from Ritchson’s chest-mounted camera showed his perspective on the incident, with Taylor shown standing in front of his motorbike in the middle of the road and pushing the actor before he retaliated.
The video shows Taylor accusing Ritchson of “driving around like a f*cking lunatic,” however the newly released footage showed that the actor was driving at 25 miles per hour.
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After his neighbor stood in front of the bike, causing Ritchson to fall, the actor is captured saying: “Are you fing kidding me, bro?” He then hit Taylor several times, adding, “Stay down. Are you fing out of your god damn mind?”
Turns out, he had every legal right to.
Alan Ritchson at the Rome Premiere Of ‘Fast X’ at Terrace at the Colosseum on May 12, 2023. Photo Credit: Maurizio D’Avanzo/IPA/INSTARimages
Brentwood, Tennessee, police closed the investigation, concluding that the star acted in self-defense. No charges were pursued. Brentwood Police Captain Steven Pepin said in a statement: “After reviewing available evidence, including video footage and witness statements, authorities determined that no criminal charges will be pursued. Mr. Ritchson’s actions were found to be in self-defense.”
Before the bodycam footage emerged and the police made their call, Ritchson let a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte do some talking. He shared a post on Instagram saying you should “never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake,” which, in retrospect, reads less cryptic and more prophetic.
Ritchson, a known motorcycle enthusiast who posed on a Ducati for a The Hollywood Reporter cover story in 2024, had only just returned to the United States after filming back-to-back movies in Australia and New Zealand. Apparently, the man can’t catch a break — or rather, he catches way too many of them, and they all seem to involve someone coming at him.
As for Reacher Season 4, Ritchson has been beating the drum on its quality for a while now. He told Collider: “Well, we finished shooting Season 4 of Reacher. It’s by far the best season we’ve had yet, so it’s coming. It’ll be out this year.”
Alan Ritchson on the set of The Man With the Bag in New York City on December 18, 2024. Photo Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
He also got philosophical about what the role costs him. “I feel like the way the presidents come out of the White House looking gray and old, that’s how I feel each year doing Reacher,” he told Collider, adding that Season 4 is “so different and so unexpected, and it is for sure the best season we’ve ever made, by a long shot.”
Ritchson has already hinted that this season is the most action-heavy yet, questioning how audiences might handle fight fatigue: “I worry about fight fatigue for audiences. I watch my wife watch Game of Thrones, and I am yawning my way through it, and then the fights start. I’m like, ‘Now it’s getting good.’ The fights start, and she’s like, ‘Oh, wake me up when the fights are done.'”
In the video, he added, “Here we are in the ADR booth for the very last time for Season 4 of ‘Reacher.’ We are dunzos. This thing is going to be hitting the airwaves very soon. Best season yet.”
While Reacher Season 4 has not yet been given an official premiere date on Prime Video, the wait is expected to be short.
One fan in the comments perhaps said it best: “Dude gets into real life Reacher mode in real life, gains 200,000 followers, cleared by the police, 2 days later drops Reacher Season 4 teaser lol.”
Living the character. Literally.
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
