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Ben Edwards is killed at the end of the first season of “The Terminal List”. It could have been the end of Edwards, played by Taylor Kitsch (“Lone survivor”); However, the author of the book series “The Terminal List” and former Navy Seal Jack Carr thought he was deserving a background.
This is how “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf” has materialized. The prequel series is filled with action and suspense with high issues because it takes viewers on the trip of Edwards de Navy Seal to the paramilitary operator of the CIA. Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video will broadcast three episodes of “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf”, with a new episode broadcast each week until the final of the season on September 24.
Here are five things to know about “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf”.
1. The “List of Terminals” series has deepened Pratt’s connection with veterans
During his more than 20 years as an actor, Pratt played several memorable roles. In addition to appearing in three films “Jurassic World”, he was also in the film “Zero Dark Thirty” of 2012, about the quest to track Osama bin Laden, as well as the “Guardians of the Galaxy” film franchise.
Pratt has traveled a long way by playing Andy Dwyer on “Parks and Recreation”.
None of his previous roles, however, has put Pratt – which should appear in two episodes of “Dark Wolf” – in closer contact with military veterans than his representation of James Reece. Now he is an executive producer of “Dark Wolf”.
In relation: “Terminal list” The prequel series “Dark Wolf” plunges into the darker side of war
Pratt, who said that five of the seven episodes “Dark Wolf” are co -written by veterans, cherishes an accessory from the first season of “The Terminal List” – an American wooden flag which is coupled with a challenge for Défi. Each strip on the flag includes stains where the parts can be placed.
“My flag is entirely covered with challenges,” Pratt told Military.com. “I can’t tell you the number of [veterans] who came to me and asked to speak. … [They are] Thanking me, which is wild because if someone in this interaction deserves gratitude, it is the person who gives me the coin who put his buttocks on the line by defending my freedom. “”
2. You can expect new favorites in “Dark Wolf”
As with any prequel series, the public will be presented to new characters. “Dark Wolf” is no different.
Rona-Lee Shimon (“Fauda”) between “the universe” List of the terminal “like Eliza Perash, a former Israeli Mossad agent who joins the CIA. Tom Hopper (” Game of Thrones “) arrives on board while Raife Hastings, a seal of Navy characteristic of Zimbabwe, and Dar Salim (” Farooq, a commander of the Iraqi special forces formerly formed by the CIA.
3. The representation of the kitsch of Ben Edwards inspired Carr to create a “dark wolf”
The representation of the kitsch in “The Terminal List” motivated Carr to expand the character of Ben Edwards. The depth that Kitsch brought to the screen of season 1 made its betrayal – the involvement of Edwards in a conspiracy has undermined the peloton of his close friend Reece and led to his murder – “much more personal and visceral for the public,” said Military.com.
Carr wanted to explore how Edwards arrived in such a dark place in “the list of terminals”. This exploration included Edwards service with Reece like Seals and how he could betray him.
“Dark Wolf” is not based on any of the five books “Terminal List” that Carr has written so far. Interestingly, the sixth, “Cry Havoc”, scheduled for the release in October, is also based on a prequel format and focuses on Reece’s father, Tom.
“It’s so interesting because you know how it ends, but you don’t know how it happened,” Carr said about Edwards in “Dark Wolf”.
“Edwards is considered a guy with a good heart, a good soul, and like everyone else, he has things with whom he has trouble,” said Seal Jared Shaw veteran, who portrays Ernest “Boozer” Vickers and is a credited writer, technical advisor and executive producer of the series. “… what happened? What went wrong with such a good guy? [himself] On the dark side and make this decision? “”
4. Pratt was Carr’s first choice to play James Reece
Pratt might never have portrayed Reece without a fortuitous occurrence in 2017, when Shaw gave him a copy of the first book “List of the terminal” a year before it was publicly available.
Knowing that he wanted to write military thrillers once he retired from the service, Carr has read books by authors he admired, including Tom Clancy (“The Hunt for Red October”), Nelson Demille (“The general girl”) and Clive Cussler (“Sahara”) and became a film and television student. When he started writing the first book “Terminal list”, it was not long before he did not know who he wanted to play James Reece.
“After this first sentence, it was very natural for me to choose the person who will play this character,” said Carr.
In relation: How Jack Carr’s time as Navy Seal permeates the universe of the list of terminals
Carr and Shaw served together and their paths crossed from time to time. Years later, the two reconnected after Carr wrote “the terminal list”. Shaw read the book and was impressed.
“Do you mind if I give this book to one of my friends, Chris Pratt?” Shaw asked Carr.
Carr could not believe it and agreed to let Pratt read it. Shaw was still in the Seal when he met Pratt for the first time when he was a military technical advisor on “Zero Dark Trente”.
“Pratt and I just struck,” said Shaw. “We were both country boys. Next weekend, we catch up with lobsters together. He returned to [Naval Amphibious Base] Coronado [in California]. “”
5. Shaw brought his former master chief chief to the first “Dark Wolf”
In all likelihood, Shaw would not have become a success in the entertainment industry if it was not for Harold Underdown. This name does not resonate with the public, but for Shaw, subdown – his master chief of the Navy Seals – means everything.
“Maître chef Harold Underdown has saved my career not once, but twice,” Shaw told Military.com. “He took a risk on me when I got out of Iraq the first time I was there, and he brought me back. I was in trouble a few months later, and he put his neck on the line to keep me.”
Shaw and Underdown finally lost track of each other, but recently reconnected when Shaw invited Underdown to attend the first “Dark Wolf” as a personal guest. They even took a photo together on the red carpet, the least that Shaw could do for a man who, he said, did not have enough credit.
“My whole life would have been different without him,” said Shaw.
Look at the full interview with Military.com with Chris Pratt, Jack Carr, the showrunner David Digilio and Jared Shaw below.
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