"Get Down" star Justice Smith has joined the cast of the upcoming untitled "Jurassic World" sequel. "The Impossible" director J.A. Bayona is being helmed on it.
According to Variety, Smith will be playing the role of a young scientist in the upcoming untitled "Jurassic World" sequel. "Prometheus" actor Rafe Spall and "Anthropoid" actor Toby Jones also recently boarded the film. "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor Chris Pratt and "Black Mirror" actress Bryce Dallas Howard are reprising their roles in the next installment.
Although the plot details of the untitled "Jurassic World" sequel are still kept under wraps, the film is expected to be fiercer. It will also be hipper, Entertainment Weekly reported.
"Assassin's Creed" producer Frank Marshall is producing the untitled "Jurassic World" sequel along with "The Bourne Legacy" producer Patrick Crowley and "Purgatorio" producer Belén Atienza. "Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow is writing the script together with "Monster Trucks" writer Derek Connolly and will executive produce with "Falling Skies" executive producer Steven Spielberg.
Trevorrow-directed "Jurassic World" blew away box office records in 2015 with the biggest domestic debut of all time with $208.8 million. It made $1.67 billion worldwide being the fourth-highest-grossing film in domestic box office history in both domestic and worldwide.
Smith starred in the YA dramedy "Paper Towns" released on July 24, 2015, before landing the starring role in Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series "Get Down" as the wide-eyed Zeke wherein he threw himself into the budding hip-hop scene in New York in the late 1970s. The 21-year-old actor is expected to be seen in the Off-Broadway coming-of-age story Yen opposite "Manchester by the Sea" actor Lucas Hedges to be previewed on Jan. 12 and opens on Jan. 30. He is represented by WME and Kohl Group.
The upcoming untitled "Jurassic World" sequel is slated to be released on June 22, 2018.
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