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Meet Indivisible Productions, the Company Chris Pratt Built

The actor behind The Terminal List also runs the company that makes it. Indivisible Productions is a small operation with an unusually large idea behind its name.

A visual metaphor of a wooden footbridge spanning a wide river between two grassy banks, in plum purple and dusk pink on cream
The company's name is a promise about bringing people together. Illustration: Joyful Take.

Chris Pratt is one of the few movie stars whose production company has a quiet argument baked into its name. I only noticed that after The Terminal List came back into the news this week. The company behind much of his output is called Indivisible Productions, and the word is doing more work than a name usually does.

Pratt announced the company on February 7, 2020, with an Instagram post that doubled as a mission statement. He explained that the name comes straight from the Pledge of Allegiance, the line about one nation, under God, indivisible. That is a rare thing for a production shingle to borrow, and I keep thinking about why.

What the Name Means

The point was not decoration. Pratt said the company would focus on themes that help bridge the growing divide in our country and world, and he added a hope to make the world a better place, before laughing off the loftiness. Set that next to most studio logos and the ambition stands out. He was describing a reason to make things, not simply a reason to sell them.

The business side followed quickly. In November 2020, Indivisible signed a first-look deal with Universal Pictures, which gave the company a home to develop film and television projects. A first-look deal is exactly what it sounds like: the studio gets the first chance to buy whatever the company develops, and in exchange the star gets money, infrastructure, and a seat at the table. It is how a famous face converts popularity into a lasting business.

Indivisible Productions at a glance

Founded
February 7, 2020
Name
From the Pledge of Allegiance
Mission
Bridge the divide, in Pratt's own words
First-look deal
Universal Pictures, November 2020
Flagship
The Terminal List on Prime Video

A Slate Built Around One Big Hit

The company's biggest project is also its best-known one. The Terminal List, the Prime Video series that returns for its second season on October 21, 2026, is executive produced by Pratt through Indivisible Productions, alongside showrunner David DiGilio and a list of producers that includes the author, Jack Carr, and director Antoine Fuqua. That one show turned a debut novel into a franchise with more than 100 million viewers worldwide.

Around it, Indivisible has stacked a slate that leans lighter. Saigon Bodyguards is an action-comedy remake set up at Universal with Wu Jing and the Russo brothers, the project that came with that first-look deal. The Black Belt is a coming-of-age karate comedy Pratt was attached to both star in and produce, with producing partner Jon Schumacher. There is also an action comedy in the works that would reunite him with Sam Richardson. The through-line is a man building things he would want to watch.

None of this is vanity, or at least not only vanity. A production company lets an actor own a piece of the shows and movies that depend on their name, instead of renting out their face by the picture. It also gives a career a second act once the roles that made someone famous start to thin out. For Pratt, who spent years climbing from a sitcom regular to one of the most bankable leads in Hollywood, the company is the part of the job he gets to design himself.

The mission did not land quietly, which is worth saying. The company's religious and patriotic framing drew both praise and mockery when it launched, a reminder that a bridge-builder first has to stand somewhere. Indivisible kept going anyway, and its most successful product is a show built on loyalty, grief, and service. The name and the work, at least, point the same direction.

Here is the part I like. The actor most people first met as Andy Dwyer, the sweet goof on Parks and Recreation, now runs a company whose stated purpose is to make the world a little better, one project at a time. A production company cannot single-handedly bridge a divide, and he seems to know it, but a name is still a promise. His happens to be one most studios would be too cynical to make, and I find that quietly hopeful.

Sources

Every factual claim above traces to one of these. Links open in a new tab.

  1. Chris Pratt's New Production Company Has A (Divisive) Political and Religious Mission StatementScreen Rant, 2020-02-07.
  2. Universal Sets 'Saigon Bodyguards' Action-Comedy Based on Vietnamese Pic; Chris Pratt and Wu Jing to StarDeadline, 2020-11-09.
  3. Chris Pratt To Produce and Star in Monarch Media Comedy 'The Black Belt'Deadline, 2020-12-09.
  4. Watch the teaser trailer for 'The Terminal List' Season 2 starring Chris Pratt, coming to Prime Video October 21About Amazon, 2026-09-17.
  5. Stranded Asset: Chris Pratt and Sam Richardson to Star in Universal's Action ComedyComingSoon.net, 2021-09.