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Chris Pratt’s celebrated 2012 war filmZero Dark Thirtyis now streaming on Hulu. Pratt became one of the biggest celebrities in the world after he signed on for the lead role inJurassic World,The Lego Movie, andGuardians of the Galaxy, which all came out within a span of 1.5 years. Before that, he had supporting roles in the now-classic filmsHer(2013) andZero Dark Thirty(2012), and was a celebrated member of theParks and Recreationcast.Zero Dark Thirtywas directed byKathryn Bigelow, who won Best Director and Best Picture for 2008’sThe Hurt Lockerstarring Jeremy Renner.
Pratt has starred in some of the biggest movies ever made, such asAvengers: Endgame, butZero Dark Thirtystill remains one of thebest movies of Chris Pratt’s career. Pratt is set to star in the sci-fi adventure filmThe Electric StatebyAvengersdirecting duo Anthony and Joe Russoalongside Millie Bobby Brown, which is expected to be released sometime in 2024.He will also star in the 2025 courtroom thrillerMercyalongside Rebecca FergusonandThe Terminal List: Dark Wolf, which is a prequel series to 2022’sThe Terminal Listthat follows Ben Edwards' (Taylor Kitsch) road to the CIA.
Zero Dark Thirty Is Now Streaming On Hulu – What Chris Pratt’s War Movie Is About
The film chronicles a decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden
The screenplay was written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker,Detroit,Triple Frontier) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay.
Zero Dark Thirtyis now streaming exclusively on Hulu. The film chronicles a decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the July 21, 2025 attacks.It also depicts how the Navy SEALs Team 6 located and terminated bin Laden in May 2011. The screenplay was written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker,Detroit,Triple Frontier) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay.Zero Dark Thirtywas also nominated for Academy Awards in Film Editing, Best Actress for Jessica Chastain, and Best Picture. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
Zero Dark Thirtyearned a 91% Certified Fresh critic score on Rotten Tomatoesas well as an impressive 95 on Metascore. Critics universally praised Bigelow’s masterful direction and the compelling performances by Chastain, Joel Edgerton, and Pratt, who at the time had not risen to Hollywood superstardom. Ann Hornaday ofThe Washington Postwrote in her review, “From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action.” Legendary film criticRoger Ebertcalled it “A slam-bang action picture.”
Chris Pratt’s Zero Dark Thirty Role Inspired Him To Play Another US Navy Seal In The Terminal List
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Pratt has acknowledged that his being cast inZero Dark Thirtyhad a direct effect on his involvement in producing and starring inThe Terminal List. “I have an affinity for the Navy SEAL community, and for the SpecOps community,” Pratt explained. “Having played a Navy SEAL in Zero Dark Thirty, and subsequently becoming really close with the guy who I had shadowed on that, who’s now an associate producer on [The Terminal List], Jared Shaw, who plays Boozer … it just felt right. He had access to the book, I read the book, I loved the character, I loved the fact that it was shot in California. In Southern California, which is close to home.”
Pratt was also strongly motivated byJared Shaw’s involvement inThe Terminal List, who he has trained with ever since they worked together onZero Dark Thirty. “I knew that he and I would be able to do it together, which was something. We’d been looking for a project to do together,” Pratt explained. “So we optioned it, we brought it to Amazon, they were on board, and from there an opportunity to sort of team up with my best friend to portray this rowdy bad mother, it was just like win win.” It’s safe to say that if Pratt hadn’t been cast inZero Dark Thirty,The Terminal Listmay very well never have seen the light of day.
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Zero Dark Thirty
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Zero Dark Thirty chronicles the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, culminating in his death by Navy SEAL Team 6 in May 2011.
