Legendary’s upcoming follow-up to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has welcomed Jack O’Connell to the solid.
Jack O’Connell has joined the solid of Legendary’s follow-up to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Plot particulars are naturally being saved below wraps presently, however Legendary has teased that the sequel will function “a number of new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off in opposition to a cataclysmic world-ending menace.“
Kaitlyn Dever (The Final of Us) is ready to star within the new MonsterVerse undertaking, with O’Connell mentioned to be enjoying the brother of Dever’s character. Dan Stevens can be anticipated to reprise the position of Trapper, Monarch’s Titan veterinarian who memorably changed Kong’s contaminated tooth with a metallic one within the final film.
After directing the final two movies within the MonsterVerse franchise, director Adam Wingard might be sitting this one out. He elected to step away to deal with his upcoming motion horror thriller, Onslaught. The studio tapped Grant Sputore, the director of Hilary Swank’s sci-fi thriller I Am Mom, to helm the brand new installment. Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is writing the script. The MonsterVerse movie is slated for a March 26, 2027 launch.
O’Connell has a number of high-profile initiatives on his slate, together with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. The supernatural horror film stars Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers who depart their troubled lives behind to begin once more of their hometown. Nonetheless, they uncover that a fair larger evil is ready to welcome them again. The movie additionally stars Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, Li Jun Li, and the nice Delroy Lindo. Sinners will hit theaters on April 18th.
He’s additionally set to star alongside Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes in 28 Years Later. “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected,” reads the official synopsis. “One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.” The movie will hit theaters on June twentieth, with the sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, slated for a January 16, 2026 launch. A third movie is deliberate to finish the trilogy.
