Chris Pratt Officially Returns to Streaming in 1 Month With New Military Thriller

Chris Pratt is one of the highest-grossing movie stars in history thanks to his roles in the Marvel and Jurassic World universes, but he also finds time to star in other projects that won’t finish the year at the top of the box office. Earlier this year, Pratt teamed up with Rebecca Ferguson for Mercy, the AI sci-fi thriller that struggled at the box office under the weight of its $60 million budget. Despite a disappointing box office performance, though, Mercy did go on to become one of the most-watched movies of the entire year on Prime Video. Pratt swiftly found box office redemption with the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which was the first film of 2026 to hit $1 billion at the global box office.

However, the biggest project of the year for Chris Pratt has been The Terminal List Season 2. The first season of The Terminal List premiered all the way back in 2022, the same year as the first season of Reacher, and while Prime Video has managed to release four full seasons of Reacher to date, it’s taken years to get the second season of The Terminal List to the screen. In a few weeks, though, Pratt will jump to a new streaming service for another military project similar to The Terminal List, but with a bit more heart. We’re talking, of course, about Way of the Warrior Kid, the new Apple TV movie set to be released on November 25. Apple TV released the first trailer for Way of the Warrior Kid earlier this week, showing Pratt back in familiar territory playing a Navy SEAL.

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.

Everything We Know About ‘Way of the Warrior Kid’

In addition to Chris Pratt, Way of the Warrior Kid also stars Linda Cardellini and Jude Hill. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Jocko Willink, who also stars in the film as Coach Adam. Will Staples wrote the script for the new film with McG directing. The movie follows a self-doubting kid who is being bullied at school, but when he turns to his Navy SEAL uncle whose home for the summer, he finally finds his courage and learns to stand up for himself.

Check out Way of the Warrior Kid on Apple TV starting on November 25 and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the film.

Way of the Warrior Kid