Reacher Season Four Fight Coordinator Eric Daniel on Building Grounded Action
As production on the fourth season of Reacher has now officially wrapped, attention is beginning to turn to the creative forces behind the series’ physical identity. Among them is Eric Daniel, who has been working as a fight coordinator on the Amazon series, bringing a background shaped by elite athletics, martial arts performance, motion capture, and years of on set experience in film and television. Under the watchful eye of Supervising Stunt Coordinator Buster Reeves, Eric, along with the core stunt team for season four, have elevated the action for the latest season… and you won’t want to miss it!
Eric’s path into the industry began far from soundstages. He started as a provincial level track and field athlete before transitioning full time into martial arts during his teenage years. His foundation was built in World Taekwondo Federation style Taekwondo, where he trained through to earning his black belt. That training introduced him to Chris Mark and James Mark, who invited him to join Team Ryouko, a high level martial arts performance group known for its demanding physical standards and polished stage work.
Through Team Ryouko, Eric spent close to eight years touring and performing live across Canada and the United States, as well as internationally in Cuba, Japan, Thailand, and China. The experience gave him a deep understanding of timing, spacing, and audience awareness, along with the discipline required to perform at a consistently high level. During this period he has described himself as always being the last one in the gym, focused on training longer and learning faster in order to keep pace and improve.
Eventually Eric began stepping away from live performance to pursue film and television full time. A key chapter in that transition was spending approximately four years working in motion capture for video games, a field that demands extreme precision and repeatable movement. That work helped refine his sense of timing and control, skills that would later translate directly into screen combat. His motion capture credits include work connected to major franchises such as the Far Cry series and the Assassin Creed series.
Alongside that work, Eric expanded his skill set through extensive cross training. His background includes wushu, boxing, weapon work, tai chi, Filipino martial arts, gymnastics, as well as hands on experience with filming, camera operation, and editing. This combination of physical and technical knowledge allowed him to better understand how action reads on camera, not just how it feels to perform.
Eric’s film and television credits include stunt performance work on major studio projects such as X-Men Days of Future Past, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Predator, and the series Titans. More recently he has worked on Star Trek Strange New Worlds, contributing in stunt and utility roles. His career has increasingly shifted toward coordination, with fight coordinating now his primary focus, alongside long term goals of coordinating and directing motion capture projects, short form work, and action driven storytelling.
On Reacher, Eric has applied the full scope of his background to a series known for its grounded, hard hitting action. As the show prepares for its fourth season release, his role reflects a broader trend in modern action television, where fight coordinators are expected not only to design physical movement, but to understand character, camera, and story as a unified whole. With Reacher Season Four moving into post production, Eric’s work stands as a continuation of a career built on discipline, adaptability, and constant learning. It is a trajectory shaped by years of global performance, technical precision, and an ongoing commitment to pushing the craft of fight choreography forward.
