Chris Pratt as James Reece standing outside with a beard and a backpack in The Terminal List Season 2Image via Prime Video
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.
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.
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.
