Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo arrives on the red carpet of the 96th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Credit/Provider: Mike Baker / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
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- Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is the latest addition to Steven Spielberg’s next film.
- Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson are all reportedly aboard.
- The movie is apparently an event picture about UFOs.
Colman Domingo has been on a real run of late as studios and streamers have finally woken up to what a great actor he is. He was nominated for an Oscar in the last awards season for his work in political biopic ‘Rustin’ and is drawing further praise for his performance in based-on-truth prison drama ‘Sing Sing.’
And now, if Deadline’s report pans out, he’ll reunite with one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood history, as Domingo is in early talks to join the cast of Steven Spielberg’s mysterious new movie. The actor previously appeared in the director’s ‘Lincoln.’
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What’s the story of Steven Spielberg’s new film?
Steven Spielberg arrives on the red carpet at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Photo: Trae Patton/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
That’s the one thing that has really been kept quiet about the director’s latest project. While it has been talked about as an “event movie” –– as opposed to his last two movies, ‘The Fabelmans’ and ‘West Side Story’, which verged more towards awards season prestige than summer blockbuster territory, this one will be squarely more in the wheelhouse of movies such as the ‘Indiana Jones’ movies and ‘Jurassic Park.’
Or perhaps we should say ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ or ‘War of the Worlds’ as the new film is reportedly once more focused on alien (or at least UFO) interaction.
Still, ‘Jurassic Park’ is also a touchstone, since writer David Koepp, who wrote the first two outings of the dino-franchise (and recently returned to pen ‘Jurassic World Rebirth,’ which director Gareth Edwards has been shooting), crafted the script for the new movie based on an idea from Spielberg.
Who else is in Spielberg’s new movie?
Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt arrives on the red carpet of the 96th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Credit/Provider: Mike Baker / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
Assuming his deal is signed and sealed, Domingo would be joining the rumored likes of Emily Blunt (recently seen in big box office/Oscar success ‘Oppenheimer’ along with Netflix dramedy ‘Pain Hustlers’ and co-starring with Ryan Gosling in ‘The Fall Guy’), Colin Firth (who popped up in ‘Empire of Light’ and an uncredited cameo in ‘Rye Lane’) and Eve Hewson, currently to be found on Netflix’s ‘The Perfect Couple.’
Domingo will next be seen playing Michael Jackson’s controversial father Joe in biopic ‘Michael,’ due out on April 18th next year.
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When will Spielberg’s latest be in theaters?
Universal and Amblin Entertainment have handed the movie a May 15th, 2026, release date, setting it squarely in the summer blockbuster territory that Spielberg himself helped establish way back in the 1970s with the likes of ‘Jaws.’
(L to R) Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg arrive on the red carpet at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Photo: Trae Patton/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.