‘Reacher’ Spinoff ‘Neagley’ Starring Maria Sten Nears Amazon Greenlight
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is looking to turn another flagship drama series into a franchise. A spinoff from Reacher is on fast-track development at the streamer and poised for a greenlight, sources tell Deadline.
Titled Neagley, I hear the offshoot would center on Maria Sten‘s fan favorite character Frances Neagley, a corporate security professional and former military colleague of Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) in the Army’s 110th Special Investigations Unit.
Reacher executive producer and showrunner Nick Santora, who developed the mothership series based on Lee Child’s books, has teamed with Nicholas Wootton, with whom he previously worked on Prison Break, to develop, executive produce and co-showrun Neagley, I hear.Like Reacher, the offshoot is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance Television, along with CBS Studios, which recently absorbed original co-producer Paramount TV Studios’ slate.
In addition to Santora and Wootton, Neagley is executive produced by Lee Child, Don Granger, and Lisa Kussner with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television.
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