Netflix hasn’t become the biggest streaming service in the world by sticking to only one genre, or even one medium for that matter. Netflix has continued to build on the biggest streaming audience in history by releasing new original projects in various genres, and doing so at such a fast pace that fans are never left without something to watch. Netflix also excels at taking older shows and giving them new life, just like it’s done this year with The Last Ship, the five-season sci-fi series led by Eric Dane and produced by Michael Bay. Netflix also found success with the new original sci-fi movie, War Machine, starring Alan Ritchson from Prime Video’s Reacher. After earning a spot in the all-time top 10, a sequel to the film is officially on the way.
While Netflix doesn’t always hold the rights to other studios’ big properties for long, the streamer usually nabs them for long enough to give them new life for at least a few weeks. One franchise that found new life on Netflix in the last few months after being added to the platform is The Hunger Games, which is set to return soon for the new release, Sunrise on the Reaping. All five Hunger Games movies are streaming on Netflix right now, including the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes prequel, but this won’t be the cast for much longer. Netflix recently confirmed that The Hunger Games franchise, which has a strong case for being the biggest sci-fi franchise of the 2010s, is being removed from streaming next month. The last day to watch all five films will be on October 13.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
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Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
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How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
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It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
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Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
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There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
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How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
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When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
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Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
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John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
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Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
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Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
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Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
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What Do We Know About the Next ‘Hunger Games’ Movie?
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be released in theaters on November 20, and it’s based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Billy Ray and Michael Lesslie wrote the script for the film, and Francis Lawrence is returning to the director’s chair to helm the dystopian sci-fi epic. Cast members include Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, and more.
Be sure to check out The Hunger Games movies before they’re removed from Netflix next month on October 13, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of everything coming to and leaving Netflix.
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