Today saw the launch of “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” a spin-off series to Amazon Prime Video’s 2022 Chris Pratt-led hit “The Terminal List”.
The new series serves as a prequel and shifts the attention towards the backstory of Taylor Kitsch’s Navy SEAL character Ben Edwards. The first three episodes are now out, with the remainder to air weekly through September 24th.
Due to Pratt’s busy schedule, a second season of the main series was going to take years to get made, so this was shot first in order to offer something to fill in the gap. Shot last year, Pratt takes a supporting role in three episodes while Tom Hopper, Jared Shaw, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim and Robert Wisdom co-star.
With the series out, those involved are now talking about where it’s all heading. Speaking with THR, producer David DiGilio took time away from filming the second season of the main “Terminal List” series in Morocco to say he hopes ‘Dark Wolf’ will get its own multi-season run allowing for characters to continue to cross over between the shows:
“We decided we’re not just going to make a new show in Dark Wolf. We decided we’re going to make a new way to make shows. I refer to it as team television, and it’s a very time-intensive process because everyone gets a say.
One of the great things about Taylor and Chris is that they are actors who are always challenging the material. So when you have people like that, you want to try to keep them involved in as many shows as possible.
Dark Wolf was really built not just as a first spinoff, but as a way to bridge the Jack Carr cinematic universe… We had this opportunity to not just give the fans of Terminal List season one a deeper dive on Ben, but to also really set up these fan-favorite characters like Raife Hastings, Mo Farooq, Jules Landry [for Terminal List season two].
They appear in book two, ‘True Believer’ [the basis for the main show’s second season], but they are set up primarily through backstory in that book. And it’s very hard to do back story on television.
We realized we had an opportunity to bring these characters into Ben’s 2015 origin story, and then have them return later after creating familiarity and a real emotional connection to them.
The surprise to us was that it wasn’t just the characters from the books that we love so much and wanted to bring back; there are other characters from Dark Wolf’s incredible ensemble who will make appearances as well.”
Kitsch separately spoke with Screen Rant and teased what could come next for his character in a second season of ‘Dark Wolf’
“If you think this is dark, wait till season 2, and it’s not like a cliffhanger, but it’s truly an emotional fall that Ben goes once he gets into Ground Branch and you’re going to see the true repercussion to it and you’re going to see him just f— go through a lot of turmoil, emotional turmoil.”
Kitsch adds that the second season of the main “Terminal List” series is a “massive scope series and a f—ing huge show.
