Alan Ritchson To Lead Survival Competition Series For Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Ritchson is heading into the wilderness for a brand new unscripted sequence at Netflix.

The star of Netflix’s War Machine and Amazon’s reacher is main a survival competitors sequence for the streamer.

It marks his first time going through an unscripted sequence and comes over twenty years after he appeared on season three of American Idol, the place he sang Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”.

The untitled sequence will see avid survivalist and skilled outdoorsman Ritchson lead a bunch of high-profile creators and headline-makers in asking whether or not when all of the comforts of recent life are stripped away, can they rise to the problem to outlive or will they offer in to the strain. Competition, alliances, and egos collide as this group places public reputations on the road, testing gamers’ self-reliance, problem-solving, and grit, per the logline.

Netflix has discovered success within the survival area with sequence akin to Outlastwhich comes from exec producer Jason Bateman. Set within the Alaskan wilderness, it has been renewed for a 3rd season, and alonethe History channel sequence that has discovered a giant viewers on the streamer and just lately launched its eleventh season.

The sequence is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions, which is behind sequence akin to MTV’s The problemHulu’s Vanderpump Villa and Lifetime’s The Chrisleys: Back To Reality. It beforehand produced survival sequence I Survived Bear Gryllswhich ran for one season on TBS.

Ritchson exec produces alongside Julie Pizzi, Rupert Dobson, Gayani Wanigaratne and Jay Bienstock, who additionally serves as showrunner. John Faratzis is co-exec producer.

Ritchson is heading into season 4 of reacherwhich he additionally exec produces, and just lately starred in function movie War Machine. He is starring reverse Owen Wilson in The Runner, directed by Scott Waughm, and vacation household comedy The Man With The Bag reverse Arnold Schwarzenegger. He additionally just lately starred alongside Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster in action-thriller Motor City and in motion 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.