{"id":86445,"date":"2026-07-24T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86445"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:36:47","slug":"reacher-star-alan-ritchson-loves-call-of-duty-would-be-up-for-being-in-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86445","title":{"rendered":"Reacher Star Alan Ritchson Loves Call Of Duty, Would Be Up For Being In The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan Ritchson, known for his role as Aquaman on Smallville and Jack Reacher on Reacher, has revealed that Call of Duty is his favorite video game and that he would be interested in appearing in the upcoming Call of Duty movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LUAInbhIi9c\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LUAInbhIi9c\">Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>, Richtson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/video-game-movies-in-the-works\/2900-5059\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/video-game-movies-in-the-works\/2900-5059\/\">video game adaptations<\/a> &#8220;scare me a little bit&#8221; because &#8220;so few work.&#8221; He&#8217;s right that video game movies have a spotty track record when it comes to critical and commercial success, with many notable flops, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/borderlands-movie-reviews-call-it-miserable-failure-fun-and-generic\/1100-6525625\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/borderlands-movie-reviews-call-it-miserable-failure-fun-and-generic\/1100-6525625\/\">2024&#8217;s Borderlands<\/a>. There have been huge hits, too, including The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s, and Minecraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think the ones that work are the ones that are made directly for kids. Minecraft is a good example. If you make it for kids first, or it&#8217;s fun&#8230; or self-aware, they tend to work. But ones that take themselves too seriously &#8230; [shrugs]. It <em>has <\/em>to know what it is and it has to be ready to have a good time,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1831275\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-at-10.14.02-AM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1831275\" \/>Alan Ritchson and his muscles in a scene from Reacher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Ritchson, known for his role as Aquaman on Smallville and Jack Reacher on Reacher, has revealed that Call of Duty is his favorite video game and that he would be interested in appearing in the upcoming Call of Duty movie. Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Richtson said video game adaptations &#8220;scare me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":86447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86448,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86445\/revisions\/86448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}