Jurassic Park is a solid classic, and that’s due in part to Jeff Goldblum’s memorable role as Dr. Ian Malcolm. He came back for the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but has been absent from the franchise ever since—understandably, as the original series went off the rails. But 2015’s Jurassic World was fairly well received, and it seems the time has finally come for Goldblum to return to the franchise.
Clearly, Universal Pictures’ sequel-making scientists were preoccupied by both whether they could and whether they should, and the answer to both of those questions is an emphatic YES.
The Hollywood Reporter says Goldblum will be playing Ian Malcolm, in case you were worried they’d just stick his face in for a cameo somewhere, though how they’re going to get a man who likely has a strong aversion to dinosaurs at this point back into the plot remains to be seen. Although, with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard also returning, he won’t grab the lead again like he did in The Lost World, but that never stopped him from turning in an iconic performance in the original. If any fans of the original movie somehow missed Jurassic World, this is certainly a solid way to draw them back in—any imperfections in the plan are microscopic.
Unfortunately, we still have about a year to wait for the sequel’s June 22, 2018 release, so we’ll have to get our Goldblum fix elsewhere—like his gloriously oddball appearance in Thor: Ragnarok, where Jurassic Park‘s Dr. Grant, Sam Neill, will join him—in the meantime. We can’t wait to have more gif and/or remix fodder. Please, time must go faster.
(via THR, images: Universal Pictures)
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Published: Apr 26, 2017 09:53 am