Author Jack Carr's Book "The Terminal List" Was Adapted Into a Series Starring Chris Pratt

Do you anticipate writing with new characters? Are you going to keep Jack Reese? Like, how are you going to do this? Yeah, so James Reese. James Reese. Yeah, for this season. Why is Jack, Jack is John. Sometimes, sometimes. Right. So John F. Kennedy, Jack, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah, no, it's easy to do. And then you have Jack Reacher character. You have Jack Ryan. You know, he's really John Ryan from the Clancy stuff. So it's, yeah, James Reese, the main character, former Navy SEAL sniper background, similar to mine. But right now, it's so hard to get an audience to connect with your character. And I didn't even think about that as I started. But since that's happened, since he is resonating with people and the stories are resonating with people, that I think I'm going to continue on with this same character, the same storyline, building on it, building along his journey. Because we're all on this journey, and people can relate to that as well, to transitions and different struggles and all that. So I'm going to continue with this character for as long as people want to continue to read about him. So do you feel like you just hit gold? So you're in a nice fucking vein of gold in this map? You might as well just keep running? I think so. I mean, you could, I heard a story from my editor. And she has another author that had kind of the same thing. Like, his character was resonating. And he said, I think I'm going to do something different. And she's like, what? No, you're not. No, you know how rare this is? Right, like J.K. Rawlings, she had this amazing success with Harry Potter. And then she wrote another book. And I mean, I'm sure it's probably pretty successful just because she's J.K. Rawlings, and everybody loves her. But I haven't heard shit about it. No, sometimes it's hard to move over. What's the new book about? Magic. No, maybe not. I don't know. I feel like I knew something. I couldn't tell you what it is. I have no idea. I'm sure it sold a million copies, because everything she does, she could, you know. So we all know Harry Potter. Like, that is part of the culture now. That is a part of the culture. But yeah, I'm continuing on with this for a while. But I'll do other projects as well. Like, I learned a ton working on these scripts. And I didn't know anything about screenwriting going into it. And the screenwriter, David Agilio, awesome guy out there in LA, he really just kind of mentored me along. And we worked on these things together. And I got to advise on each of them. So I got to see how that process went. Got to see what it looks like when you bring a writers room in that I didn't even see you have experience with. And now you have 15 people. And they're all giving their different ideas to how to adapt your work. So it's really interesting. Were you there while that was happening? Not physically. So they sent me the app. So COVID hit pretty soon into it. So they were all virtual too. So they're all doing that virtual. The room was virtual. So you did a virtual meeting though. So you were at least digitally in presence. So was it weird having people talk about your creation and sort of move it around? And did they keep all the main characters like Katie and his ex-wife and his daughter and all that stuff? Yeah. So Chris wanted to keep it. So Chris optioned it right out of the gate, Chris Pratt. So January of 2018, before it even hits Shell, as Chris Pratt options it because my dear friend Jared Shaw gives him a copy and says, this is your next project, which is just crazy. By the way, who's better than Chris Pratt? I can't think of anybody. He's my favorite Chris. He's great. He's just such a great guy. And for him, he's perfect for that role. So perfect. And he's done a small role in Zero Dark Thirty where he plays a Navy SEAL and very small part. But his other stuff hasn't been as violent, hasn't been as visceral, hasn't been as primal. And so people are going to be surprised. How graphic is this going to be? Pretty graphic. The books are so graphic. Here we are. There we are right there. Yep. I think that was Antoine wasn't supposed to post that. So I'm so glad that he did though. Oh, Antoine, you fucked up. That's on Chris's page, actually. Yeah, Chris did it too. Chris reposted it, which is great. So Antoine Fuk were right there. Man, he is such an amazing guy. So he did Training Day, did Tears of the Sun, Magnificent Seven, Shooter, Equalizer. And it's one of those guys, when you meet him and you're in his presence, something's different. You have this like, you meet a lot of people that come through here. And maybe a couple of them have had that sort of presence. Incredible. It's such a nice guy. So having Chris and Antoine at the top of this thing, so many people came up to me on set and just told me, hey, this feels different than other movies we've worked on. Like everybody from craft services to whatever else, technical advisors, all coming in saying, this is different. And plus, we had like 12 SEALs on set, guys that I knew in the teams that are there playing SEALs or acting in it or doing stunt coordination or technical advising or whatever it is. So it was like a reunion. That's awesome. So we had a blast. Yeah, so all those guys there, it was a huge reunion for a week on set. And we had a blast. But yeah, it could not be. A lot of this is trust. So when you hand something over to somebody to take your work and change it into something and adapt it to film, or it can be anything, but there's a lot of trust involved. Because especially me, if you're not JK Rowling or you're not Stephen King and you're not maintaining creative control, you hand that to somebody else and you cross your fingers. And there's no two better people to be in charge of this than Chris Pratt and Antoine Fuqua. They're incredible people. Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience for free, only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips, easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience. On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.