It's Official: Godzilla x Kong Follow-Up Is Go!

[lhb412]

Stevens is the human cast member I'd be most excited about returning, that's for sure. Though I was impressed by Hall's utter commitment to seriously deliver insane exposition.

[Benjamin Haines]

Deadline reports that Jack O'Connell (Back to Black, Ferrari) has joined the cast.

https://deadline.com/2025/02/godzilla-x-kong-sequel-adds-jack-oconnell-legendary-1236294068/

[Benjamin Haines]

Veteran actor Delroy Lindo has joined the cast! THR reports that Kaitlyn Dever's character works for Monarch, Lindo is playing her boss and Jack O'Connell is playing her brother. Dan Stevens as Trapper is still the only confirmed returning character so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/godzilla-x-kong-monsterverse-delroy-lindo-1236142668/

[lhb412]

Mostly new people with just a little connective tissue really sounds good to me. I think a refresh is exactly what's called for.

If we're full '60s-'70s Showa we should have self-contained films that experiment with different tones and genres.

[Kailem]

Yeah I'm ok with a new, or mostly new cast. Delroy Lindo is a great addition, he's always cool to see in anything he's in, so I take that as a big plus.

Filming is also apparently due to start in July according to recent reports, which would give them plenty of time to meet their 2027 release date if that's the case.

[Benjamin Haines]

THR and Deadline report that veteran actor Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things) has joined the cast! THR also reports that he's playing a general and that filming is set to begin next month in Australia. That's an earlier start date than GxK, which began filming in July 2022 on its way to a March 2024 release. I guess they're trying to allocate even more time for post-production VFX work, which is good.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-godzilla-x-kong-movie-matthew-modine-1236155374/
https://deadline.com/2025/03/matthew-modine-monsterverse-1236311743/

I do hope that Kaylee Hottle returns as Jia again. Legendary's prior Kong movies and even the Skull Island animated series all give the impression that Kong has formed connections with so many individual humans over the years as a direct result of how lonely he's always been. Now that the last film ended with him leading a tribe of his own kind down in Hollow Earth, I'd like to see the next movie at least address how that affects his bond with Jia, even if she's not one of the main characters this time.

[Benjamin Haines]

Kaitlyn Dever said in an interview earlier this month that this movie is now filming in Queensland, Australia. Deadline also reports that Australian actress Alycia Debnam-Carey has joined the cast.

https://deadline.com/2025/04/godzilla-x-kong-sequel-alycia-debnam-carey-legendary-1236364353/

Debnam-Carey's most prominent acting roles to date have been on television shows including Fear the Walking Dead on AMC, The 100 on The CW, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Prime Video, and Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, with the latter also co-starring Dever.

[lhb412]

We should place bets as to which MonsterVerse movie they'll pull the trigger on putting "Destroy All Monsters" in the title.

[Benjamin Haines]

^ It's funny, one thing I've noticed throughout my life is that whenever nonfans hear the title Destroy All Monsters, they tend to ask me how many monsters get destroyed in that movie, and when I tell them it's just one, they think that's a misleading title.

Point being, if Legendary ever makes a movie called Godzilla/Kong: Destroy All Monsters, I think it will be a movie that follows through on that premise.

[Benjamin Haines]

Now we've got Sam Neill in the next Godzilla/Kong movie!

https://deadline.com/2025/04/godzilla-x-kong-sequel-adds-sam-neill-1236369130/

[lhb412]

WOOOOO! Hell yeah!

[Kailem]

This is turning out to be a pretty stacked cast! Definitely never saw this news coming, but Sam Neill in anything is always good; and when it's Godzilla, it's even better!

[Benjamin Haines]

We have confirmation of several key crew members, including several returning from prior from Monsterverse flicks.

https://if.com.au/screen-queensland-confirms-new-monsterverse-film-now-shooting-on-the-gold-coast/

Kong: Skull Island composer Henry Jackman is back. He's a prolific composer whose other scores include X-Men: First Class, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Kingsman: The Secret Service and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, among many others.

Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire editor Josh Schaeffer is back. He previously edited Pacific Rim: Uprising and 65.

Kong: Skull Island production designer Stefan Dechant is back. Since K:SI, he's been the production designer for Pacific Rim: Uprising and Rebel Moon.

Godzilla vs. Kong costume designer Ann Foley is back. Since GvsK, she's worked with star Kaitlyn Dever on The Last Of Us and she was also the costume designer for She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters hairstylist Jules Holdren is back. Since G:KotM, he's worked on Black Widow, Hawkeye, Top Gun: Maverick and Joker: Folie à Deux.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire makeup artist Sabrina Wilson is back too. She has an extensive list of credits including X-Men: Apocalypse, Fear the Walking Dead and all three Guardians of the Galaxy films.

Other confirmed crew for Legendary's new Godzilla/Kong movie are director of photography Dan Mindel (Pacific Rim: Uprising, Twisters) and VFX supervisor Kelly Port (Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: No Way Home).

[Dai]

The music should be in good hands there. I'm just glad they've moved on from Tom Holkenborg. I've enjoyed some of his movie scores, but his Monsterverse ones felt bland and phoned in.

[lhb412]

^ Junkie XL has done some incredible scores, but his MonsterVerse ones are not among them! I read a while back about how some of these big composers have a heavy workload and have two tiers that they sort their work into; prestige projects they lavish their attention to, and the stuff they crank out quick and dirty with a lot of the actual work done by their staff. It'd make sense if that's the case here!