The Terminal Record is lastly returning to the 2025 TV schedule; nonetheless, it’s not for Season 2 (but). Whereas the long-awaited sophomore installment is coming, we’re going again in time first to be taught extra about Taylor Kitsch’s character, Ben Edwards. So, whereas chatting with the actor and the sequence’ co-creator and showrunner, they advised me why they needed to make this present and the way it was really impressed by Ben’s ultimate scene with Chris Pratt’s James Reece within the unique sequence.
Whereas the extremely common first season of The Terminal Record and its upcoming second installment are book-to-screen variations of Jack Carr’s novel, Darkish Wolf is just not. It’s a completely new story concerning the origins of Kitsch’s character, and it’ll assist us higher perceive the alternatives he made that in the end led to his brutal betrayal of Pratt’s Reece and his demise by the hands of his buddy on the finish of Season 1.
Once I requested DiGilio concerning the creation of this sequence, he stated it was that ultimate sequence the place Reece killed Ben that impressed Darkish Wolf, as he defined:
I believe the top of The Terminal Record modified how we thought of Ben, and thru that change got here Darkish Wolf. Really, that ultimate scene between Ben and Reece was possibly the most effective scenes that I believe we’ve ever been part of. To observe these two guys stroll into that, bringing the burden of what they have been by on that journey, and seeing the empathy and the love between these two operators play out, and the tragedy of it. So for us, we knew there was one thing particular, simply from that evening of filming.
In case you have learn The Terminal Record and watched the sequence with an Amazon Prime subscription, you’ll know that Ben is sort of totally different between the 2. He is extra cold-blooded within the e-book. In the meantime, within the present, he helps Reece along with his record, and he regrets his actions towards his buddy, main him to be pretty understanding of Pratt’s character’s option to kill him. In the end, that emotional response makes that ultimate gunshot even tougher to listen to, and it made me surprise why Ben did all this within the first place.
To that time, DiGilio advised me that second, and Ben’s emotions about it sparked fairly the talk on-line, which is what led to conversations about Darkish Wolf. He stated:
However then, when the present got here out, and other people bought to the top, and this monumental debate erupted within the fan base about ‘Did Ben deserve that destiny or not?’ That actually launched Darkish Wolf. That dialogue launched Darkish Wolf.
The discuss that scene and if Ben deserved his destiny “launched Darkish Wolf,” and we are able to in the end thank Kitsch’s efficiency and Pratt’s love for him and his character for all of that, the showrunner advised me. He additionally defined that out of that, they needed to reply questions on how Ben bought thus far in his life; how he turned the darkish wolf.
Elaborating on that time, DiGilio stated:
And so we knew we had to return seven years and meet him as a light-weight wolf, any individual who was within the SEAL groups, who liked the groups, liked the brotherhood. Who then possibly did not fairly match within the guidelines and laws of the groups on the time.
For context, Darkish Wolf begins proper when Ben leaves the SEALS. We be taught why he has to go, and the present explains how he wound up related to the CIA. All of that in the end helps clarify why he acts the way in which he does in The Terminal Record. Chatting with that concept and addressing why he needed to play Ben once more, Taylor Kitsch advised me:
I believe for me, you all the time wish to shine a little bit bit of sunshine within the darkness of those guys, proper? After all, they’re heroes. After all, they are a sure breed to do what they do. However I sort of leaned in or hung my hat on the repercussion of his service, and what it’s that makes him tick, and what it means to lose the trident to any individual that lives for that brotherhood. In order that’s sort of the place I began with him.
Once I completed watching The Terminal Record, I definitely wanted to be taught extra about Ben. Within the unique present, he’s sort of an enigma and his motivations, whereas clear, wanted elaboration. This prequel ought to give us that, and we are able to thank that ultimate rollercoaster of a scene that resulted in Ben’s demise for it.
So, now that we all know why Darkish Wolf bought made and the scene that impressed it, it’s time to get excited. Chris Pratt has stated this new present is higher than Terminal Record Season 1, and between that and the concept that we’re going to get Ben’s backstory, I can not wait.
To see how Ben’s story started and the experiences that made him the person we met in Terminal Record, you possibly can stream the three-episode premiere of Darkish Wolf on Wednesday, August 27, with a Prime Video subscription. After that, episodes will drop weekly on Wednesdays.