The past four years have been a bit of a whirlwind for Chris Pratt. In that time, he wrapped up James Gunn‘s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy with a bang, became the voice of Super Mario and Garfield, reteamed with Anthony and Joe Russo for their Netflix flop The Electric State, and most recently, fought to prove his innocence to an AI Rebecca Ferguson in Mercy. Guardians Vol. 3 also confirmed that his time in the MCU wasn’t up yet, laying the groundwork for another appearance with the tease “The legendary Star Lord will return.” One thing that hasn’t happened yet, though, is Season 2 of his smash hit action thriller, The Terminal List.
Pratt first embodied U.S. Navy SEAL James Reece back in 2022, yet it’s been a long road to adapting the next of author Jack Carr‘s novels. He did at least reprise the role in the prequel spin-off series, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, last year, but viewers have been anticipating what’s next after his violent campaign to get answers and avenge his family. Season 1 left him on a boat bound for Mozambique with no real place in the world after his old life was ripped away from him and plenty of questions about his next mission. At last, though, the wait is nearly over, and Prime Video has shared the first trailer for Season 2, picking up right where Reece left off, but with a newfound purpose.
Reece isn’t in the best shape when the footage starts, looking disheveled, experiencing double-vision, and reliving one traumatic memory after another thanks to that “bomb” in his head. Once he arrives on shore and settles into his new environment across the Indian Ocean, however, the government is eager to enlist his services given what he was capable of in his days as a SEAL commander. Season 2 follows the events of Carr‘s True Believer and points James on a path of violent redemption as his old teammate Freddy Strain, played by Terminal List newcomer Gabriel Luna, offers him the promise of a full presidential pardon, assuming he helps with an operation. Said mission will lead him all around Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, opening up into a conspiracy spanning from Moscow to Langley and even connecting to his own family history. Reece doesn’t have time on his side, though, as he’s slowly dying from a brain tumor, making him a little more willing to take risks and get the job done by any violent means necessary.
‘The Terminal List’ Returns Bigger Than Ever for Season 2
To-date, the entire Terminal List franchise has racked up over 100 million viewers globally on Prime Video, making it one of the platform’s biggest action winners alongside the likes of Reacher and Jack Ryan. With Season 2 expanding into a full-on global-trotting thriller, the cast has grown, too. In addition to Luna, Costa Ronin, Olga Kurylenko, Yul Vazquez, Martin Sensmeier, Arnold Vosloo, Jeremy Bobb, and Shiraz Tzarfati are among the new international names on the call sheet, while fan favorites Tom Hopper, Constance Wu, Dar Salim, and Luke Hemsworth return as regulars. Series creator David DiGilio also returned to the helm as showrunner to dig into Reece’s next chapter.
The setting may have changed, but the series still promises a commitment to military authenticity. Former Navy SEAL Jared Shaw and Army Ranger Max Adams served as executive producers and oversaw the production to ensure accuracy, while former SEAL and Warfare co-director and co-writer Ray Mendoza contributed behind the camera. Veterans of all branches were employed all around the production as actors, advisors, writers, and more to capture the mindset of service amid the action.
All eight episodes of The Terminal List Season 2 premiere on Prime Video on October 21. Check out the trailer in the player above.
via Collider