Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch), James Reece (Chris Pratt) in 'The Terminal List: Dark Wolf.' Justin Lubin/Prime Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains spoilers from Terminal List season one, and the premiere of Terminal List: Dark Wolf.] Temperatures can get sweltering in Mosul, Iraq. But in the Middle Eastern city during 2015, it was the uncomfortable sting of violence and death that touched a nerve, changing the trajectory for a group who swore an oath to the country they represent. This is where Prime Video's Terminal List: Dark Wolf prequel series opens, revealing unspeakable horrors that might even shake a career Navy SEAL officer to his core, such as Chief Ben Edwards played by Taylor Kitsch. The first three episodes of Dark Wolf that are now streaming wasted no time in showing how the madness of war can knock some soldiers off their path. Dark Wolf provides the origin story of what pushed Edwards and his loyal friend, Lt. Raife Hastings (Tom Hopper), into an even more chaotic world of pain and violence, but seemingly without any clear rules of engagement. Dark Wolf begins five years prior to the events of Prime's hit military/covert operations series Terminal List that aired in in 2022 and starred Chris Pratt as Navy SEAL commander James Reece. Related Stories Business Peacock Coming to Prime Video in Wide-Ranging Deal Between Comcast and Amazon TV First Look at 'Harlan Coben's Lazarus' Sees Sam Claflin Probe Father's Mysterious Death Terminal List season one ended with Edwards being revealed to have been behind the assassination plot of the group's former Navy SEALs platoon. Edwards was the final name on Reece's "terminal list," marking the end of a tour of vengeance, also for the deaths of Reece's wife and daughter. Pratt appears in Dark Wolf, and creator/showrunner David DiGilio hopes that Dark Wolf will have its own multi-season run alongside The Terminal List, as they connect more of the Carr universe. The Hollywood Reporter recently caught up with Dark Wolf's star to discuss how unforeseen events changed his character's view of how he sees the world, how that plays into tearing apart a lifelong brotherhood and how his personal quest to give back to veterans and others who have been victimized people led him to forming a nonprofit retreat on his own Montana ranch right next to Yellowstone. *** You are an outdoorsman who enjoys nature, physical activity and adventure. But what did you have to do to prepare yourself to tell the origin story of Chief Ben Edwards, disgraced Navy SEAL turned CIA black ops operative? Oh, man! The biggest thing was the twist at the end of season one. My biggest obstacle was trying to root [for him] and understand how somebody could do that. In regard to training, I've been very fortunate. I've had the same Navy SEAL train me from Lone Survivor to True Detective, onto this show. His name Ray Mendoza. Ray has been with me for 12 years off and on. He just directed Warfare, amazing guy. They are always giving me refreshers, but it's fun because Dark Wolf goes into espionage, and we're all over the world. To learn those kinds of fights, not just in the deserts and mountains, but in cities and subways; we're having gunfights in tunnels. That was fascinating to learn how these special operators would function downtown in a market or train station. When I interviewed Wendell Pierce about the Jack Ryan series, he told me he had a CIA operative who served as his advisor. Did you have someone similar for Dark Wolf? We definitely have a couple guys that are dark, in ground branch and whatnot, that you can lean on. Not to give too much away, but Ben is more rogue than CIA. He's just pumped he doesn't have rules of engagement, put it that way. After the end of season one of The Terminal List, how long after did you and Chris Pratt know that you were going to be doing the origin story of Edwards? The fans decided it! The numbers and the feedback we got. Four months, maybe? And then we started. Pratt and [author Jack] Carr and [creator David] DiGilio called and were like, "Hey man, would you be up for doing your own show? Let's see why Ben did what he did and learn a lot more about him." Of course I was game. I love playing this guy, he's a lot of fun. You seem to be chameleon-like in your roles, like recently with antihero Isaac in the bloody western American Primeval for Netflix. What techniques help you to melt into your roles so seamlessly, and become invisible to the character? I don't know. I think when I played David Koresh [in the miniseries Waco], that was six months of preparation. That taught me a lot about myself and my process. I love chasing roles where you get to disappear and change your body, your cadence, your look. So I don't know if there's a secret, it's just a fuck