Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Author for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
When Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher movie was first released, fans immediately turned against it, no matter how decent of a film it was all because of Cruise being in the lead role. In Lee Child's novels, Reacher is described as a colossal, muscle-bound man, which Cruise, despite his willingness to do any stunt imaginable, at just 5'7", is not.
✕ Remove Ads In this gritty, over-the-top world, Ritchson played Arthur Bailey, a tough but morally complex L.A. cop. Bailey finds himself caught up in a series of brutal death races, driving cars that use human blood as fuel — get it, Blood Drive! The show blended dark humor, retro nostalgia, and grotesque, absurd action, creating a campy but thrilling watch that earned itself a cult following.
Posts3 Reviews for Blood Drive were decent, but behind the scenes, it was a mess. In a Reacher interview earlier this year with Jonathan Blomberg from MovieZine, Ritchson detailed issues he had with the showrunner, John Hlavin. Ritchson joked how he was the star of a show most people didn't know, but the tribulations and failures of the series taught him a lot. Being the lead, he put the show's success or failure on his shoulders.
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