“The Terminal List – Star ‘Chris Pratt’ Explains Benefits of Not Being a Film”
Chris Pratt, the star of The Terminal List, discussed how telling a story through a long-form episodic format compares to doing so through film in an interview with ComingSoon.
Pratt went into detail about how having an episodic series with the production value of a film is good to storytelling as a whole when asked about balancing the many narrative elements of The Terminal List.
Each of the auxiliary characters would be reduced to almost nothing but puppeteers of exposition if the eight hours of content had to be condensed to an hour and a half, according to Pratt. “The film’s format is somewhat to blame for it. You can’t exactly tell the same tale in the same way with the same depth of emotion and development at an hour and a half, or maybe even two, two and a half hours at its longest of personality. I actually adore this, so yeah. I adore the new long-form episodic format that has the same production quality as a movie.
The Terminal List: Cast
David DiGilio, who is also the showrunner for The Terminal List, wrote the script and served as executive producer. It is based on the same-titled book by Jack Carr.
Along with Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jai Courtney, JD Pardo, Patrick Schwarzenegger, LaMonica Garrett, Stephen Bishop, Sean Gunn, Tyner Rushing, Jared Shaw, Christina Vidal, Nick Chinlund, Matthew Rauch, Warren Kole, and Alexis Louder, the series also stars LaMonica Garrett, Stephen Bishop, Sean Gunn, Tyner Rushing, Ja