Chris Pratt Officially Leaves ‘The Terminal List’ Behind With New Apple TV Action Thriller Trailer

2026 has been a busy year for Chris Pratt, who has done more than enough to establish himself as one of the most formidable action stars in all of Hollywood. Pratt opened the year by teaming with Rebecca Ferguson for the AI-driven sci-fi thriller, Mercy, which grossed nearly $50 million at the box office before going on to become one of the most-watched movies of the entire year on Prime Video. He then starred in the first feature film of 2026 to hit $1 billion at the global box office, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is also going strong on Peacock weeks after its streaming debut. Pratt can even be seen over on Prime Video reprising his role as James Reece in the long-awaited third season of The Terminal List, but he’s far from done with 2026.

Pratt is expected, but not confirmed, to reprise his role as Star-Lord in Avengers: Doomsday later this year on December 18. Even if he doesn’t return in the film, he has assured fans that Marvel will make good on the promise for Star-Lord to return in a future MCU project. However, before Doomsday arrives, fans can check out Pratt in his new Apple TV military movie, Way of the Warrior Kid, which co-stars Linda Cardellini and Parker Young. The film follows a self-doubting kid who learns to find his inner warrior thanks to the help of his tough Navy SEAL uncle (played by Pratt), who is home for the summer. This morning, Apple TV unleashed the first official trailer for Way of the Warrior Kid before its November 25 streaming release.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Who Is Writing and Directing ‘Way of the Warrior Kid’?

Will Staples wrote the script for Way of the Warrior Kid with McG directing — the film is based on the novel of the same name by Jocko Willink. Staples is best known for his work writing the script for 2021’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, which was co-written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by Stefano Sollima. He also wrote Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which was released in 2011. McG is widely known for directing Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle in 2003, and he also teamed with Sam Worthington and Christian Bale in 2009 for Terminator Salvation.

Check out the new trailer for Way of the Warrior Kid and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Chris Pratt’s future projects.

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