Way of the Warrior Kid Is Apple TV’s Next Original Film, Dated November 20

Way of the Warrior Kid is Apple TV’s next original film, starring Chris Pratt and Jude Hill, and it premieres Friday, November 20, 2026. Apple named the film, its two leads and the date in its 2026 slate release, alongside a dozen other series and films for the year.

It is the seventh and final title on Apple’s published 2026 film list, arriving three weeks after Nocturne, the crime drama that closes out October on Apple TV.

Key facts

What Apple has published about Way of the Warrior Kid

Apple’s slate release credits two names, Chris Pratt and Jude Hill, and gives the single premiere date of November 20. That is the entire public record for the film in the material Apple has released so far. There is no published genre label, no runtime, no plot description and no supporting cast. Anything beyond those two names and that one date would be a guess this article is not making.

That is a thinner public record than some of the other titles on Apple’s 2026 calendar. Small Prophets, for instance, comes with a named creator and a described genre in its own press release, and Nocturne comes with three named stars, a genre and a full release cadence. Way of the Warrior Kid, by contrast, has so far only ever appeared inside the broader February slate document, without an individual press release of its own the way Small Prophets, Nocturne and Brothers each received.

Apple TV’s full 2026 film slate

Six of the seven have already premiered by today’s date, September 12, 2026. Way of the Warrior Kid is the only one still ahead, and Matchbox The Movie, premiering October 9, is the only other film left on the list besides it. Forty-two days separate those two remaining films, the last gap left on Apple’s published 2026 film calendar.

How a film differs from Apple TV’s dated series this fall

Way of the Warrior Kid arrives complete on a single day, unlike Nocturne, the ten-episode series that premieres October 30 and then releases one new episode every Friday through Christmas Day. Apple’s slate treats films and series as separate categories with separate release logic: a film gets one date, a series can get either one date or, as with Nocturne, a date plus a cadence. Small Prophets, the other dated series this autumn, gets only a single season premiere date with no cadence mentioned at all. That means a viewer who wants to watch everything Apple TV has dated this autumn needs to plan around three different release shapes: a single-day film, a single-day series premiere and a multi-week weekly rollout, all inside the same few months.

Where this fits Apple’s other November dates

Way of the Warrior Kid premieres the same week Apple Watch Ultra 4 and the rest of September’s hardware will have been on sale for roughly nine weeks. It also lands well after iPhone 18 Pro’s second wave of countries and well after iOS 27’s September 14 release. Apple’s September 9 keynote, recapped separately, did not mention the film at all. As with every other Apple TV date this wave, none of that hardware timing is connected to the film in Apple’s own material; the two calendars simply run alongside each other.

What Apple has not said

• No genre or plot description for Way of the Warrior Kid.
• No runtime.
• No supporting cast beyond Chris Pratt and Jude Hill.
• No director, writer or studio partner credited in the slate release.

Today is Saturday, September 12, 2026, sixty-nine days before Way of the Warrior Kid premieres. Apple has not published anything further about it since the original slate release.