By Michaela Gordoni
DARK WOLF, prequel to Prime Video’s hit series THE TERMINAL LIST, finally has a release date and first-look photos.
The show will premiere on Aug. 27 on Prime Video with three episodes. New episodes will come out weekly until Sept. 24, Variety reported on May 29.
The storyline takes place before the timeline in THE TERMINAL LIST. It shares Ben Edwards’ origin story as he goes from being a Navy SEAL to a CIA agent. It exposes the “darker side of warfare,” OutKick reported.
“One split-second decision changed the course of his life,” Taylor Kitsch, who plays Ben, told USA Today. “You’re not only stripping the bird off his chest, you’re stripping away a piece of who this guy is and his purpose.”
Chris Pratt will reprise his role as James Reece. Other returning cast members are Tom Hopper, Jared Shaw, Robert Wisdom, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim, Rona-Lee Shimon and Shiraz Tzarfati.
THE TERMINAL LIST came out in 2022, and Season 2 is currently in production.
Jack Carr and David DiGilio will create and produce DARK WOLF. Carr is the author of the book, The Terminal List, which the series is based on.
Like THE TERMINAL LIST, the show will strive to be authentic to military life, showing the psychological aspects of service. Many veterans serve on the cast and crew.
DARK WOLF ends where THE TERMINAL LIST begins. At the end of THE TERMINAL LIST, Reece kills Ben for betraying him and sabotaging his team for dead. DARK WOLF explores how Ben turned on Reece.
“This is the origin story,” Kitsch said. “This is the story that gets us to that point. There was so much heat around Edwards with that twist and all these questions about how. You’re going to learn a heck of a lot more about who Ben really is and these twists and turns that led to that decision.”
Ben’s character differs from the book, which cast him as a more evil character with less personality.
“My Ben is not the Ben that Jack Carr wrote,” Kitsch said. “I said that ‘If you let me make him my own, then I’ll take a swing with you.’ And they were all for it.”
“[Ben] was done much better in the series than I did in the novel,” Carr said. “These guys elevated it to the level that fans wanted a prequel origin story on this character.”
Movieguide® found several positive elements in THE TERMINAL LIST but advised caution for violence and heavy, unnecessary language.
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