Published Aug 24, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.
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At one point in his career, Chris Pratt may have just been known as the funny guy from Parks & Recreation, but he’s since blossomed into one of the biggest blockbuster leading stars in Hollywood. Pratt has spent time in a pair of blockbuster franchises, Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel and Jurassic World for Universal, and his time as a leading man in these films has helped make him one of the highest-grossing stars of all time at the box office. Earlier this year, Pratt returned to the big screen with his sci-fi epic, Mercy, which co-stars Rebecca Ferguson. While the film underperformed at the theatrical box office, it went on to rewrite history as one of Prime Video’s most popular streaming movies following its debut earlier this year.
However, Mercy isn’t the first Chris Pratt-led project to pick up steam on Prime Video. Back in 2022, Pratt headlined the first season of an explosive action-thriller series for the platform. Based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr, the show was such a hit that Prime Video greenlit a spin-off starring Taylor Kitsch, with Pratt returning for a few episodes. As fans await the arrival of new episodes, they’ve been rushing to rewatch the debut season, pushing it back into the Prime Video top 10 in several countries worldwide across the months. The series remains the perfect mash-up of Reacher and John Wick, ideal for all fans of action and conspiracy thrillers.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Now, fans finally have an official date to mark on their calendars for The Terminal List. Prime Video has announced that The Terminal List Season 2 will premiere on October 21, 2026, with all eight episodes dropping simultaneously. The upcoming season sees Pratt return as Navy SEAL commander James Reece for an expanded, high-stakes, globe-trotting mission.
Additionally, Pratt has been tapped to star alongside Linda Cardellini in a new Apple TV original movie, Way of the Warrior Kid. The film follows a hardened Navy SEAL who returns home to live with his sister, only to learn that her son is being bullied. He then takes it upon himself to teach his nephew to stand up for himself and do the right thing. Way of the Warrior Kid will release globally straight to streaming on Apple TV on November 20, 2026, with McG directing the film with a script from Will Staples. It’s based on the novel by Jocko Willink.
Check out the first season of The Terminal List on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage as we head toward the second season’s October 21 premiere.
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A former Navy SEAL officer investigates why his entire platoon was ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission.