FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Star Colman Domingo Reportedly Being Eyed For Villain Role In Next JURASSIC WORLD Movie

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Star Colman Domingo Reportedly Being Eyed For Villain Role In Next JURASSIC WORLD Movie

As the cast of the next Jurassic World movie takes shape, rumour has it Fear The Walking Dead star Colman Domingo is being eyed to play the movie's big bad. Find more details on that after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Apr 17, 2024 05:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Jurassic Park
Source: SFFGazette.com

Believe it or not, it was only a month ago that John Wick helmer David Leitch was in line to helm the next Jurassic World movie (which is rumoured to be titled Jurassic City). 

A few days later, "creative differences" led to his departure, and GodzillaRogue One: A Star Wars Story, and The Creator director Gareth Edwards almost immediately stepped in to replace him. Since then, the cast has quickly started taking shape. 

Scarlett Johansson, Dev Patel, and Jonathan Bailey are expected to appear in the movie, and we may now have intel on who will play the villain.

According to scooper Daniel Richtman (via SFFGazette.com), Fear The Walking Dead and The Color Purple star Colman Domingo is being eyed to play Jurassic City's villain. The actor was recently nominated for an Oscar for his work in Rustin and should make for a formidable big bad in this next chapter of the long-running franchise. 

As you might expect, there's no word on who Domingo might be playing but he remains the rumoured frontrunner to also replace Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror in Avengers 5.

What we do know is that Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard aren't expected to return and neither are franchise vets, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Sam Neill. 

David Koepp, the writer of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park is penning the screenplay, with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer.

"I was about to take a break and I started writing my next idea for a film and this is the only movie that would make me drop everything like a stone and dive right in," Edwards recently said of his decision to take a crack at Jurassic City. "To work with Frank Marshall and Universal and David Koepp, who's writing the script, I think they're all legends. So I'm just very excited."

The Jurassic franchise began with the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel by Michael Crichton. The movie follows a group of people visiting a dinosaur theme park on a remote island, where the cloned dinosaurs break free and wreak havoc.

Its success led to multiple sequels, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), and the reboot series starting with Jurassic World (2015). Those films expand on the concept of dinosaur cloning and feature various attempts to exploit or control the creatures for profit or scientific research.

Universal Pictures is keen to get Jurassic City into theaters as soon as possible and has set a July 2, 2025 release date.

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Matchesz
Matchesz - 4/17/2024, 5:36 AM
So the actor who is for sure going to get eaten
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 4/17/2024, 5:42 AM
Wait now Dev is expected to appear lol?

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Anyway Colman would make a great villain, still wish they would have recast Jonathon Majors with him for Kang the Conquerer tbh.

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/17/2024, 8:06 AM
@Superspecialawesomeguy - after having watched Fallout, I think Aaron Moten in the role either. He's about the same age as Majors, but a more entertaining actor to watch
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 4/17/2024, 6:02 AM
I really wish they’d flip the lid on this franchise, instead of making it another “let’s save the dinosaurs” movie - flip it to a heist movie. Make it a proper call back to the original to when the fat guy tries to steal the Dino DNA for a rival investor.

But this time it’s a team breaching the island, things go wrong and they get separated. Turns into a semi-horror film like the original. Few similarities between JP 2 & 3 sure, but these are just a shitty bunch of people doing a shitty mission for shitty people. Throw in few moral character scenarios to separate the good guys from the bad guys.

Boom, far better than Pratt playing Dog Whisperer with raptors.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/17/2024, 7:55 AM
@Se4M4NSt4ine - There are ways to move forward and still retain that more gorro element in the original.

A small town is taken over by dino’s, power is cut off, and the people there are isolated from the outside world.

A research facility that is recreating the dino cloning has dino’s on the loose.

Etc.

Going back to the island seems quite tired now. If they are going to keep making these movies, which they will as long as they make money, at least move forward and try new things.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/17/2024, 8:07 AM
@mountainman - that kinda reminds me of Resident Evil, and I like it. Make it so
mountainman
mountainman - 4/17/2024, 8:53 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Maybe more Dino Crisis in that second example but yes same concept.

I wasn’t a fan of any of the JW trilogy of movies, but you could do some interesting things with this status quo of a world with dinos on the lose, human cloning being real, and genetically modified animals being a thing.

The core of Jurassic Park is “if science can should it?” That is a super interesting theme to explore more that ALL the sequels failed to truly capitalize on.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/17/2024, 10:12 AM
@mountainman - for sure. I really don't get why I was watching a globetrotting, international espionage, human cloning, animal trafficking, corporate conspiracy movie when dino's messing up things is far more interesting. Only thing we got was a news broadcast as the beginning of Dominion.

Anyway, that short movie preceding Dominion is probably the best bit they did after Jurassic World and Jurassic Park. More of that please
LSHF
LSHF - 4/17/2024, 7:13 AM
Why villains in a dinosaur horror flick? JAWS didn't need one. I thought the frigging giant monsters takes the place of villains.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 4/17/2024, 7:30 AM
@LSHF - 🙄🎯🎯🎯😐🤨
LeonNova
LeonNova - 4/17/2024, 9:02 AM
Bro is booked and busy
TrueBeliever86
TrueBeliever86 - 4/17/2024, 12:51 PM
As a die-hard fan of the series, I really feel it needs a break, especially after Dominion. I wasn't impressed by it. The first half of Fallen Kingdom was good. But, the second half fell flat for me. Really the entire movie felt rushed. Just my opinion.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/18/2024, 1:11 AM
I should find the time to watch Fear TWD to get more familiarized with Colman's tenure as playing villains. But I did get a taste of it when I saw The Color Purple, he was great as Mister. So I'm more than ok if he signs in, he's a versatile actor capable of playing bad guys and also good guys such as in the case of Rustin.

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