Colman Domingo Is A Marked Man in Netflix Thriller ‘The Madness’

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Who’s having a better year than Colman Domingo? The actor was named as one of The Met Gala’s four co-chairs for the next Met Gala along with LeBron James, Pharell Williams, A$AP Rocky and race car driver Lewis Hamilton. He’s starring in the A24 movie Sing Sing, which covers a group of prisoners who find joy through acting.

Now he’s the star of an upcoming eight-episode Netflix series where he’s fighting to clear his name. In The Madness Domingo plays Muncie Daniels, a political pundit who heads to the Poconos to finish a book. But while there, he witnesses the murder of a white supremacist and is framed for the crime. He goes on the run but finds out he’s unwittingly fallen into a much more sinister conspiracy.

“Everything about this conspiracy thriller excited me. It was a unique protagonist, one that I had never seen or experienced,” Domingo said when interviewed by Netflix. “Someone who has very centrist beliefs, and now they’re being thrust into the world to really hard-core believe in something and to reexamine the people that they believed were possible enemies. You realize you have more in common with them than you thought you had in the beginning.”

Domingo is also playing Joe Jackson in the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic. The movie, Michael directed by Antoine Fuqua has been pushed ahead six months to coincide with the 2025 award season. It will now be released in theaters on Oct. 3. Fuqua says its running time will reflect Jackson’s lengthy career and will include 30 songs.

“Why I wanted to make it is, Michael,” Fuqua told The Hollywood Reporter in July.

“Michael was a big part of my life growing up, big influence on my career, an incredible artist — but he was a human being, and we’re exploring that. I’m very excited about it.”

Domingo’s The Madness comes out on Nov. 28. Watch the trailer below: