Matthew Modine joins the sequel to 'Godzilla X Kong'

There is already a new signing for the sixth installment of the Sample -sized de Legendary.

The sequel was launched in May 2024, with Grant Sputore (I Am Mother) As director of the next sequel to the Kaiju Cinematographic Universe, taking the place of Adam Wingard, who is not back due to work agenda conflict.

Legendary closed an agreement with Matthew Modine to be part of the distribution of the following delivery. The actor will play a general (via THR).

Modine is a great trajectory actor, with projects such as Oppenheimer, Full Metal Jacket, Married to the Mob, Hard Miles, Miss Virginia, The Martini Shot, and the series Stranger Thingsand the newly released in Netflix, Zero Day. Some of his next projects are the original Amazon series, The Better Sister With Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel, and The Protector With Milla Jovovich.

Modine adds to those previously announced Kaitlyn Dever (The Last of Us, Dopesick, Booksmart) In leading role, Jack O’Connell (Sinners, Unbroken) Like Dever's brother, Delroy cute (Sinners, Da 5 Bloods) as the head of Dever in Monarch, and the return of And Stevensas the veterinarian and dentist trapper of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

He filming will begin in April in Australia.

The new film is described as A continuation of the franchise focused on Godzilla, Kong and a variety of other titans.

The next installment will feature several new human characters with Godzilla and Kong while facing a catastrophic threat that could end the world.

Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) wrote the script. Callaham wrote the first drafts of Godzilla (2014).

The Monsterverse started in 2014 with the premiere of Godzilla (2014), continuing with Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: The King of the Monsters (2019), Godzilla vs Kong (2021) and the most recent sequel, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. It also expanded to the small screen with the Apple TV+series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which develops within the timeline of this universe. The Monsterverse has proven to be a commercial success for studies. So far, its five films accumulate more than $ 2,000 million in the Global Box Office. They are distributed by Warner Bros.

Godzilla x Kong He accumulated $ 571.9 million in the Global Box Office. It is the highest grossing delivery of the monterverse by exceeding $ 568 MDD of Kong: Skull Island (2017).