Sam Neill of the Jurassic Park franchise is the most recent addition to the solid of the brand new theatrical Monsterverse movie from Legendary.
No phrase on the function he’ll sort out. Neill joins a solid that features Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Matthew Modine, Alycia Debnam-Carey, and Dan Stevens, who reprises his function as veterinarian Trapper Beasley from final yr’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the highest-grossing installment within the franchise.
The movie is claimed to put a number of new human characters alongside Titans Godzilla and Kong, as they face off towards a cataclysmic world-ending risk. Grant Sputore (I Am Mom) is directing from a script by Shang-Chi‘s Dave Callaham, taking on the directorial reins from Adam Wingard following his work on The New Empire and Godzilla vs. Kong.
Launched with Godzilla in 2014, Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise additionally contains Kong: Cranium Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, in addition to Netflix’s animated spin-off Cranium Island and the Apple TV+ sequence Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The movies, launched by Warners, have grossed over $2.5B worldwide.
Recognized for starring within the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchises at Common, in addition to movies like The Piano and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Neill was most just lately seen starring in Peacock’s restricted sequence Apples By no means Fall, based mostly on the novel by Large Little Lies’ Liane Moriarty. The brand new Monsterverse film for the actor, who within the ’90s starred in Within the Mouth of Insanity, a cult horror movie written by none aside from Warner Bros chief Michael De Luca, with John Carpenter directing. He’s repped by CAA and Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration.