Summary

• Zero Dark Thirty, now on Hulu, follows the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden after 9/11, praised for its cast and direction.
• Chris Pratt's role in the film led to his involvement in optioning, producing, and starring in Amazon's The Terminal List.
• The Terminal List season 2 is in the works, following Jack Carr's source material closely and ensuring a promising future for the series.

Chris Pratt's celebrated 2012 war film Zero Dark Thirty is now streaming on Hulu. Pratt became one of the biggest celebrities in the world after he signed on for the lead role in Jurassic World, The Lego Movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy, which all came out within a span of 1.5 years. Before that, he had ing roles in the now-classic films Her (2013) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and was a celebrated member of the Parks and Recreation cast. Zero Dark Thirty was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won Best Director and Best Picture for 2008's The Hurt Locker starring Jeremy Renner.

Pratt has starred in some of the biggest movies ever made, such as Avengers: Endgame, but Zero Dark Thirty still remains one of the The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, which is a prequel series to 2022's The Terminal List that follows Ben Edwards' (Taylor Kitsch) road to the CIA.

Zero Dark Thirty Is Now Streaming On Hulu – What Chris Pratt's War Movie Is About

The film chronicles a decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden

The screenplay was written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Detroit, Triple Frontier) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay.

Zero Dark Thirty is now streaming exclusively on Hulu. The film chronicles a decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It also depicts how the Navy SEALs Team 6 located and terminated bin Laden in May 2011. The screenplay was written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Detroit, Triple Frontier) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay. Zero Dark Thirty was also nominated for Academy Awards in Film Editing, Best Actress for Jessica Chastain, and Best Picture. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing.

Zero Dark Thirty earned a 91% Certified Fresh critic score on Rotten Tomatoes as well as an impressive 95 on Metascore. Critics universally praised Bigelow's masterful direction and the compelling performances by Chastain, Joel Edgerton, and Pratt, who at the time had not risen to Hollywood superstardom. Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post wrote in her review, "From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action." Legendary film critic Roger Ebert called it "A slam-bang action picture."

Chris Pratt's Zero Dark Thirty Role Inspired Him To Play Another US Navy Seal In The Terminal List

If Pratt hadn't been cast in Zero Dark Thirty, The Terminal List may never have happened

Pratt has acknowledged that his being cast in Zero Dark Thirty had a direct effect on his involvement in producing and starring in The Terminal List. "I have an affinity for the Navy SEAL community, and for the SpecOps community," Pratt explained. "Having played a Navy SEAL in Zero Dark Thirty, and subsequently becoming really close with the guy who I had shadowed on that, who’s now an associate producer on [The Terminal List], Jared Shaw, who plays Boozer … it just felt right. He had access to the book, I read the book, I loved the character, I loved the fact that it was shot in California. In Southern California, which is close to home."

Pratt was also strongly motivated by Jared Shaw's involvement in The Terminal List, who he has trained with ever since they worked together on Zero Dark Thirty. "I knew that he and I would be able to do it together, which was something. We’d been looking for a project to do together," Pratt explained. "So we optioned it, we brought it to Amazon, they were on board, and from there an opportunity to sort of team up with my best friend to portray this rowdy bad mother, it was just like win win." It's safe to say that if Pratt hadn't been cast in Zero Dark Thirty, The Terminal List may very well never have seen the light of day.

When Terminal List Season 2 Is Returning & What The Story Will Be

There is no confirmed release date for season 2 yet

The wealth of source material is a great sign for the future of The Terminal List.

The Terminal List is one of the biggest titles in Amazon's original series arsenal, with a second season currently in the works. The Terminal List season 2 is expected to follow the chronology of Jack Carr's novels, who wrote and published The Terminal List in 2018. Series showrunner David DiGilio has mentioned publicly that season 2 of The Terminal List should closely follow Carr's second book titled True Believer, which is the next immediate installment of the James Reece saga. Currently, Carr has written seven books with James Reeces in focus, with his most recent novel Red Sky Mourning being released in June 2024. The wealth of source material is a great sign for the future of The Terminal List.