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EXCLUSIVE: Alan Ritchson is heading into nan wilderness for a caller unscripted bid astatine Netflix.
The prima of Netflix’s War Machine and Amazon’s Reacher is starring a endurance title bid for nan streamer.
It marks his first clip fronting an unscripted bid and comes complete 20 years aft he appeared connected play 3 of American Idol, wherever he sang Stevie Wonder’s You Are nan Sunshine of My Life.
The untitled bid will spot avid survivalist and knowledgeable outdoorsman Ritchson lead a group of high-profile creators and headline-makers successful asking whether erstwhile each nan comforts of modern life are stripped away, tin they emergence to nan situation to past aliases will they springiness successful to nan pressure. Competition, alliances, and egos collide arsenic this group puts nationalist reputations connected nan line, testing players’ self-reliance, problem-solving, and grit, per nan logline.
Netflix has recovered occurrence successful nan endurance abstraction pinch bid specified arsenic Outlast, which comes from exec shaper Jason Bateman, is group successful nan Alaskan wilderness and has been renewed for a 3rd season, and Alone, nan History transmission bid that has recovered a large assemblage connected nan streamer and precocious launched its eleventh season.
The bid is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions, which is down bid specified arsenic MTV’s The Challenge, Hulu’s Vanderpump Villa and Lifetime’s The Chrisleys: Back To Reality. It antecedently produced endurance bid I Survived Bear Grylls, which ran for 1 play connected TBS.
Ritchson exec produces alongside Julie Pizzi, Rupert Dobson, Gayani Wanigaratne and Jay Bienstock, who besides serves arsenic showrunner. John Faratzis is co-exec producer.
Ritchson is heading into play 4 of Reacher, which he besides exec produces, and precocious starred successful characteristic movie War Machine. He is starring other Owen Wilson in The Runner, directed by Scott Waughm, and vacation family comedy The Man With The Bag opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. He besides precocious starred alongside Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster successful action-thriller Motor City and successful action buddy comedy Playdate with Kevin James. He is repped by Range, WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
