Colman Domingo is allegedly Marvel's frontrunner as a replacement for Kang the Conqueror.
Last month, original actor Jonathan Majors was officially dropped by the studio shortly after he was found guilty of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 6.
Now writer and film insider Daniel Richtman claims that Domingo is being eyed to take over the pivotal Kang role. In 2022, the Emmy-winning Euphoria star showed interest in being part of Marvel or DC's cinematic universes, ideally as a villain.
"When it comes to Marvel and DC, I'm like, 'I think I'm ready now.' I'm worked out, fit, I think I want to play a villain," the 54-year-old told AwardsWatch. "I just want to be the villain. I don't want to be the good guy. I actually want to do some really nasty, dirty work."
The 54-year-old had a jam-packed 2023, lending his voice to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, along with starring in live-action films Sing Sing, The Color Purple, and Rustin, which earned him a Best Actor nomination for the upcoming Golden Globes. He takes his work seriously, having revealed that on Euphoria, "I may put myself through my own rehearsals of 30–50 hours for a few scenes.”
Majors made his MCU debut as He Who Remains in 2021's Loki Season 1, followed by his proper introduction as Kang in last year's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and, as yet another variant, throughout the second Loki season. Scenes from the Disney+ series had already been filmed before the actor's arrest last March. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is reportedly now being referred to internally as simply Avengers 5.
Majors has been dropped from other film projects, like music biopic Otis and Zelma and The Man in My Basement, along with his former management and PR companies. Originally scheduled for last month, Majors' bodybuilding drama Magazine Dreams has been pulled from Disney's release schedule.
Social media users immediately had something to say about the Colman Domingo rumor, with some praising the potential Kang recasting and others on the fence about him joining the MCU. See a bunch of reactions below.
