Chris Pratt as James Reece looking concerned in The Terminal List Season 2Image via Prime Video
2026 has been a knockout year for Chris Pratt, who stumbled at the start of the year with his new sci-fi thriller, Mercy. Pratt stars alongside Rebecca Ferguson in the film, which failed to earn back its budget at the box office before going on to become one of the most-watched movies of the year on Prime Video. However, it didn’t take Pratt long to return to box office glory when he reprised his role as Mario in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie alongside Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach — the animated sci-fi film was the first of its kind in 2026 to reach $1 billion at the global box office. The biggest return for Pratt this year, though, came not long ago in The Terminal List Season 2, the Prime Video series where he stars in the titular role of James Reece.
The first season of The Terminal List premiered back in 2022, alongside the first season of Reacher (starring Alan Ritchson). While Reacher has managed to release three new seasons since its premiere in 2022, though, Prime Video just did release the second season of The Terminal List after a four-year wait. This isn’t the only Terminal List project that’s taking longer than expected to be released, either. The next Terminal List book, State of Exile, was originally scheduled to release on May 11, 2027, but it has officially been delayed to October 1, 2027. State of Exile will be the eighth book in The Terminal List series from creator Jack Carr, who is also heavily involved in the making of the show alongside Chris Pratt.
Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
01
How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
02
It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
03
Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
04
It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
05
There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
06
How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
07
Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
08
When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
Has ‘The Terminal List’ Been Renewed for Season 3?
Prime Video has yet to publicly decide the fate of The Terminal List for Season 3, but these conversations are likely happening right now after the Season 2 premiere was just a week ago. It took four years to make one season of The Terminal List, and it couldn’t have been cheap, considering how long the show was in production. The Terminal List Season 2 will need to smash it in the viewership column to warrant another season, but the good news is that there are plenty of books from Jack Carr to draw on for potential future seasons.
Check out the first two seasons of The Terminal List on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the future of the show.
