For about two months, DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It) was signed on to play Air Force pilot Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel, but then she had to drop out of the project due to scheduling issues. Now DeWanda Wise is playing pilot Kayla Watts in director Colin Trevorrow’s upcoming Jurassic Park / Jurassic World sequel Jurassic World: Dominion, and Empire has just unveiled a new image of the character. We previously saw Kayla standing alongside Chris Pratt’s character Owen Grady in an image that was released back in January. The new image of her can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Wise told Empire that her character is
fresh out of the Air Force and her main thing is flying cargo: mostly dinosaur stuff, but it could be anything.”
It’s said that Kayla will cross paths with prehistoric beasts like the Quetzalcoatlus and the Pyroraptor, and the actress also took a liking to a Lystrosaurus on set, so much that she named the inanimate creature Leonard and wanted to take it home with her.
Trevorrow, who previously directed the first Jurassic World, directed this one from a screenplay he wrote with Emily Carmichael, based on an idea he crafted with his Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom co-writer Derek Connolly. An official synopsis has yet to be released, but here’s how USA Today describes the plot:
When a bunch of dinosaurs get loose around the world, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) go on a globetrotting mission to round them up before mankind falls a few spots on the food chain. Back for this Jurassic installment are original trilogy characters including Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern).
Neill and Dern’s Jurassic Park co-star Jeff Goldblum is back for this one as well. Also in the cast are Omar Sy, Mamoudou Athie, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Scott Haze, Campbell Scott, and Dichen Lachman. Trevorrow has said this film is a “true ensemble”, with Neill, Dern, Goldblum, Pratt, and Howard all being of equal importance to the story.
A collaboration between Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Jurassic World: Dominion was executive produced by Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg, with Frank Marshall producing alongside Pat Crowley. Sara Scott, senior vice president of production at Universal, oversaw the project for the studio.
Jurassic World: Dominion is scheduled to reach theatres on June 10th.
Previously released images have shown Bryce Dallas Howard in a bad situation, Chris Pratt hanging out with a dinosaur in the snow, and Pratt, on a motorcycle, being chased through Malta by an Atrociraptor. Are you ready to see DeWanda Wise so some sick flying over some sicker dinos in Jurassic World 3?