The reasonChris Pratt’s action show “can’t follow” the source material it’s based on in season 2 has been revealed as filming for the show continues.Pratt’s movies and TV showshave been multifaceted over the years, starring in comedies likeParks & Recreationto animated features likeThe Super Mario Bros. Movie. His versatility makes his roles extremely memorable.
However, he’s also been involved in various action roles in recent years as well. This includes projects like 2021’s sci-fi action movieThe Tomorrow War, to his role as Star-Lord on thecast of theGuardians of the Galaxymovies. However, there’s one project for television currently in production that’s gotten a key update about its season 2.
Chris Pratt’s The Terminal List Is Going To Have A Very Different Season 2
It’s been confirmed thatThe Terminal Listseason 2 will not be following the same storyline as the book series of the same name. The Prime Video action series stars Pratt as James Reece, on a path of vengeance after his family is killed due to a military conspiracy.The Terminal Listseason 1 endedwhere the first book did.
As of writing, there are 8 books inThe Terminal Listseries.
Speaking withPeople, however, author and series co-creatorJack Carr explained how events inThe Terminal List’s second book,True Believer, can’t be adapted. Events Reece prevents in the book later happened in real life, making it impossible to adapt them. He also spoke about the challenging limits of TV as a medium when crafting the upcoming narrative:
We can’t follow it because some things that I wrote about in the book actually came true [in real life], and in the book, the character prevents them from happening. So there are some mandatory changes like that, and then there’s other ones because you have constraints obviously with time and all those other things.
It’s much [more] different than writing a book [where] I have no constraints. I can do anything I want, and here you have a lot of constraints. So, it’s really interesting those two kind of different mediums.
Our Take On The Terminal List Season 2 Having A Different Story From The Second Book
Carr’s statement confirmsThe Terminal Listseason 2won’t be pulling fromTrue Believerdue to the book’s realistic content. In the second book,Reece is given a Presidential pardon and recruited by the CIA to help track down terrorist leadersaround the world. Some of the events he manages to stop mirror some that have transpired in real life.
The show has already hinted at diverting somewhat from the path of the books, with theupcomingThe Terminal List: Dark Wolfprequelexpanding upon Taylor Kitsch’s Ben Edwards. Given the expansion of its TV world, it’s not too surprising the flagship series is following its own path. Where that will lead, however, remains a mystery.
Even so, the next chapter ofChris Pratt’s action series sounds promising, with the approach being centered around its presentation as a TV series. How the upcoming story plays out remains to be seen, but there are still plenty of other books in Carr’s series that the show might be able to pull from. Whether it will is also unknown.
