Audiences seem to be gearing up forTaylor Sheridan and Peter Berg‘s recently announced Call of Duty movie by revisiting one of the decade’s most-watched military action thrillers. They’re also prepping for the release of this month’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, a feature film continuation of the Prime Video series starring John Krasinski. He has appeared in action-heavy roles for several years and has cultivated a successful filmmaking career in the horror genre. But many viewers will remember that Krasinski started out as a cast member of the NBC sitcom The Office. It was exactly one decade ago, after he was passed over for the Captain America role in favor of Chris Evans, that he started pursuing action movies in earnest. He entered this new phase with the movie that’s seeing a viewership spike on streaming right now.
The film was based on a real-life incident that dominated headlines and influenced the 2016 presidential election. It also marked a creative departure for director Michael Bay, who was coming off of a string of big-budget Transformers movies. He’d taken a detour some years earlier, with the crime comedy Pain & Gain, which received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. The same fate befell Bay’s 2016 military action-thriller with Krasinski, which also featured Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale, and Toby Stephens, among others.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
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Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
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The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
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🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Here’s the ‘Call of Duty’ Lead-In That Audiences Are Tuning Into
We’re talking, of course, about 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The movie grossed $70 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million, which wasn’t nearly enough for it to break even. However, it has remained a consistent favorite on the PVOD and streaming markets. According to FlixPatrol, 13 Hours was among the most-watched movies on Paramount+ globally this week, when the leaderboard was topped by The Running Man. A decade after its theatrical run, 13 Hours holds a 51% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. However, reflecting its success on home video, the movie has a stupendous 83% audience score on the aggregator website. Bay’s most recent attempt at mid-budget filmmaking, Ambulance, underperformed commercially as well. But like 13 Hours, it has gained a following at home. The Call of Duty movie is scheduled for release in 2028, but you can watch Krasinski in the Jack Ryan spin-off film on May 20. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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