Sam Neill hasn’t had his fill of large, terrifying creatures. The Jurassic Park star is the latest actor to join the next MonsterVerse movie at Legendary.
The film is the follow-up to 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which earned $571 million at the global box office. Plot details are being kept under wraps for the next entry, which according to the studio, will feature “several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat.” Grant Sputore is set to direct the project from a script by Dave Callaham.
Neill joins Kaitlyn Dever, who is also new to the franchise, and headlining the human cast that also includes Jack O’Connell as her brother and Dan Stevens, who played laid-back monster veterinarian and dentist Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Legendary’s MonsterVerse launched in 2014 with Godzilla and has since accumulated more than $2.5 billion at the global box office over films including Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). It also spun off into a well-regarded Apple TV+ series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which has a second season in the works.
Neill, represented by CAA and Authentic Talent Management, was recently seen in the Peacock series Apples Never Fall and will next be seen in the Netflix mysteries series Untamed. He starred in Jurassic Park as Dr. Alan Grant and reprised the role for Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
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