Chris Pratt, Antoine Fuqua And David Digilio Developing “The Terminal List” With MRC Television

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MRC Television announced the studio is developing "The Terminal List," an exciting new television series, with Civic Center Media, based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, which Chris Pratt and Antoine Fuqua brought to MRC.

Pratt, who will starr and executive produce via his Indivisible Productions. Fuqua will direct and executive produce the series through his Fuqua Films banner. David DiGilio is set to write the script and executive produce. "The Terminal List" is a Civic Center Media project in association with MRC Television.


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"The Terminal List" is a conspiracy thriller that combines elevated action with deep psychological questions about the cost of pushing our nation's highest trained operators too far.  The series follows Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission.  Reece returns home with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him.

This marks the second time Pratt and Fuqua have worked together. Fuqua directed Pratt in "The Magnificent Seven" for Sony along with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film opened the 2016 Toronto Film Festival and closed the 2016 Venice Film Festival.


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Pratt recently appeared in the record-breaking hit, "Avengers: End Game," which has grossed over $2.7B worldwide. This was a follow up to "Avengers: Infinity War" that also made more than $2 billion at the global box office. Prior to that, Pratt's Star Lord led Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise where the first installment was one of the top 3 grossing films of 2014 with over $770 million at the global box office. "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" trounced every other film that opened summer of 2017 and surpassed the first episode's box office with over $860 million worldwide. Pratt returned to the wildly popular role of Owen in "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" in June 2018. In 2015, he headlined "Jurassic World," the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time.

Fuqua's films include "The Equalizer", "The Equalizer 2," "The Magnificent Seven," "Olympus Has Fallen," "Southpaw" and "Training Day," which earned an Academy Award® for Denzel Washington for Best Actor, and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Ethan Hawke. He has expanded his work in television, signing an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate. Under the deal, Fuqua and his production company Fuqua Films, will team with Propagate on both scripted and non-scripted projects.


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In the documentary genre, Fuqua also directed the acclaimed live-blues documentary "Lightning in a Bottle," executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and directed and produced "American Dream/American Knightmare," about record industry mogul Suge Knight. Most recently, he directed and executive produced the critically acclaimed documentary "What's My Name: Muhammad Ali," for HBO, which was a winner at the 2020 PGA Awards in the Outstanding Sports Program category.   Fuqua Films is also producing the drama series "#FreeRayShawn," starring Laurence Fishburne and Stephan James, for short-form streaming platform Quibi. He has executive produced and created numerous television series including "The Resident," "Shooter," "Training Day" and "Ice."  Additionally, his next film is "Infinite," starring Mark Wahlberg, will be released by Paramount on August 7, 2020.

"The Terminal List" represents David DiGilio's return to the conspiracy thriller. He started his television career in the genre, creating the series "Traveler," starring Matt Bomer and Viola Davis, for ABC in 2007. Most recently, he was the executive producer and showrunner for CBS All Access' "Strange Angel" created by Mark Heyman and executive produced by Heyman, Ridley Scott and David Zucker.

Civic Center Media in association with MRC Television recently premiered the HBO series "The Outsider" on January 12, 2020. Based on the Stephen King novel, "The Outsider" stars Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo, and was adapted for television by Richard Price.

About MRC

MRC Television is a leading independent studio, which sources, finances, develops, and produces content in partnership with the industry's foremost creative artists.  To date, its television series have been nominated for 72 Emmy® Awards and 11 Golden Globe ® Awards.


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The current slate includes Ozark," from Chris Mundy and starring Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner, which will premiere its third season on Netflix in March, 2020; the new HBO series "The Outsider," an adaptation of the Stephen King novel from Richard Price, starring Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo, and for which Jason Bateman directs and executive produces; and "The Great," from Tony McNamara, starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, which will premiere on Hulu May 15, 2020. MRC Television's previous series include "House of Cards" and "Counterpart," among other series.

MRC Television is a division of Valence Media, a diversified global media company that includes dick clark productions, the largest producer and proprietor of television live-event programming broadcasts, and the world's leading entertainment news and music publisher The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group. Valence Media has minority investments in A24, Fulwell 73 and T-Street. For more information, please visit www.mrcstudios.com.

About Civic Center Media

Civic Center Media (CCM) is an affiliation between United Talent Agency (UTA) and MRC Television to develop, produce and finance premium television series.  The non-exclusive  arrangement allows Civic Center Media to work with artists represented by all agencies and allows UTA and MRC to work with all studios and agencies, respectively. The  collaboration has created a rich content slate with a variety of projects in development and current series which include " The Great," set to premiere May 15 on Hulu and "The Outsider," currently on HBO.