This Is The Role James Cromwell Will Play In Jurassic World 2

James Cromwell has been gracing screens both big and small for over 50 years, so, it is perhaps a logical step to include him in the cast of Jurassic World 2, in a role that sounds like it essentially replaces the story function filled by the late Richard Attenborough within the franchise narrative – that of ‘The Man With Whom The Buck Stops.’

There is precedent within the Jurassic Park series for characters from the first instalment to reappear. Jeff Goldblum, as Ian Malcolm, starred in the second film and returns for Jurassic World 2. Sam Neill and Laura Dern, as Drs. Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, respectively – returned for Jurassic Park III. Richard Attenborough, who played billionaire, theme-park-visionary John Hammond, passed away in 2014 – so it seems that Jurassic World 2 writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, and director J.A Bayona, are retro-fitting a surviving business partner for Hammond, in the form of Benjamin Lockwood. This is the character that James Cromwell revealed he’ll be playing in conversation with Larry King.

He said “The character Richard Attenborough played, I’m his partner, Benjamin Lockwood. We developed the technology of being able to clone the genes. And so I’m trying to deal with the blowback from what we have done.”