Alan Ritchson Teaming Up With A Minecraft Movie Writers & Top Gun Producer For New Adventure Movie

Alan Ritchson has once again set his eye on a high-profile project and is teaming with a high-profile creative team. Ritchson is best known for playing the lead role in the Prime Video TV series Reacher. Based on the Lee Child Jack Reacher novels, that series began in 2022 and aired season 3 earlier this year. Some of Ritchson’s other recent work includes Ordinary Angels and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Ritchson has now been cast in a new adventure film, Fortune. The movie is currently in negotiations with Skydance. The script is penned by Neil Widener and Gavin James, and is based on their short story. It will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Ritchson, with Andrew Schneider executive producing. Full plot and character details have not yet been revealed.

What This Means For Alan Ritchson

His Career Continues To Heat Up

Ritchson is not the only high-profile talent set to work on Fortune. James and Widener are also the writers behind this year’s A Minecraft Movie, which has been the biggest Hollywood-made box office success of 2025 so far. Bruckheimer is an accomplished producer who also knows how to produce a big hit. His most recent mega-success was Top Gun: Maverick, which made over $1 billion, and he has also provided his support to The Pirates of the Caribbean and more. This hugely successful team will help elevate Fortune‘s profile.

The movie’s creation also highlights how big of a time this is for Ritchson. While he has been working for over a decade, Reacher has opened the door to significantly more opportunities for the actor. Fortune is far from the only movie he has coming down the pike. This year, the actor will also play a key role in the Netflix film War Machine, which is already generating some big buzz. Other projects on his slate include Motor City and Runner. As such, Fortune will allow Ritchson to further explore his film career in another high-profile movie.

Our Take On The Fortune News

Can Ritchson Carry A Big Theatrical Movie?

Alan Ritchson is looking to the side in Reacher

This movie’s creation is good news for Ritchson, but it also indicates that the producers are putting increasing faith in him. While Ritchson is currently leading one of the most successful streaming TV series out there right now, the actor has not spent a lot of time as a big-screen movie lead. With projects like Fortune, studios will rely on him more to be the driving force of what brings people to the theater. Whether this succeeds or falters remains to be seen until movies like Fortune get released.

Source: THR