Particulars together with plot, launch date, casting, how a lot display screen time Chris Pratt has and extra concerning the upcoming Prime Video spin-off.
What Do We Know In regards to the upcoming spin-off sequence The Terminal Checklist: Darkish Wolf? Greater than it’s possible you’ll assume. The Prime Video sequence starring Taylor Kitsch was first introduced again in 2023 and is lastly beginning manufacturing. From plot, casting information, and extra, let’s dive in and take a look at what’s developing within the new addition to The Terminal Checklist franchise.
What’s Darkish Wolf about?
The Terminal List turned an on the spot hit for Prime Video when it debuted again in 2022. Following the homicide of his spouse and daughter after a covert mission gone incorrect, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) set out for revenge towards those that killed his household. Over the course of the primary season, Reece exacts revenge with the assistance of his good friend and former teammate Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch). By the tip of the primary season, Edwards admitted his involvement with the botched mission and his half within the conspiracy. Reece then kills Edwards. Darkish Wolf is a prequel to The Terminal Checklist and follows Edwards throughout his time as a soldier. Extra particulars have but to be revealed.
Chris Pratt will reprise his function as James Reece
Darkish Wolf was introduced concurrently with the renewal of The Terminal Checklist for a second season. After delays as a result of SAG-AFTRA and Author’s Guild strikes in 2023, manufacturing lastly acquired underway on the spin-off sequence in March 2024. Prime Video posted a shot of the primary day of manufacturing which confirmed Chris Pratt in costume as James Reece. It’s unclear how a lot display screen time Pratt can have within the spin-off or if it is going to be a glorified cameo, however primarily based on the shared historical past between Edwards and Reece, Pratt could have a key function.
Tom Hopper and Luke Hemsworth are additionally within the forged
The Umbrella Academy star Tom Hopper was the primary addition to the forged of Darkish Wolf and was revealed to be portraying Raife Hastings. Hastings is described as a “hunter, protector, guardian and Navy SEAL.” Luke Hemsworth, finest identified for his function in Westworld, was additionally added as CIA asset Jules Landry with Dar Salim forged as Iraqi Particular Operation Forces officer Mohammed “Mo” Farooq.
How far again will the sequence be set?
The truth that at the least a part of the story will happen in Iraq could place Darkish Wolf a number of years earlier than The Terminal Checklist and will comply with Ben Edwards simply earlier than his villainous flip, resulting in his demise within the sequence’ first season. It is usually potential that this spin-off may go even additional again to develop the character for an eventual flip to the darkish facet saved for a number of seasons later. It’s nonetheless unknown if Darkish Wolf will probably be a restricted or ongoing sequence, as that might inform us extra about what to anticipate.
Darkish Wolf is just not immediately primarily based on any of Jack Carr’s novels
Followers observed that The Terminal Checklist deviated from writer Jack Carr’s 2018 first novel within the James Reece sequence. Since that first novel, Carr has revealed six sequels, and a spin-off centered on Tom Reece, James’ father, is slated for publication in 2025. Not one of the novels function direct prequels regardless of the third guide, Savage Son, that includes Darkish Wolf character Raife Hastings within the current day. Carr co-created Darkish Wolf with David DiGilio, creator of The Terminal Checklist sequence, so the direct enter from the novelist ought to draw from a few of his plans and concepts for future books or in growth tales.
What else do we all know?
Not a lot has been formally revealed about Darkish Wolf, however manufacturing stories point out the sequence will final for eight episodes like The Terminal Checklist’s first season. Administrators credited embody Frederick E.O. Toye, who directed episodes of The Terminal Checklist, and Liz Friedlander (The Lincoln Lawyer). There was no official phrase of whether or not director Antoine Fuqua will helm any spin-off episodes, however he’s aboard as govt producer.
When will we see it?
Whereas manufacturing was by no means formally introduced as ending, it has been virtually a 12 months since Prime Video posted their behind-the-scenes picture from day certainly one of filming. In January 2025, Jack Carr posted a picture to Instagram exhibiting that he was recording Automated Dialogue Alternative (ADR) for a supposed cameo in Darkish Wolf. If the sequence is at that stage, it is rather probably we will probably be seeing a trailer very quickly, with a launch probably for summer season 2025.
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