Sam Neill has joined the cast of Legendary's upcoming sequel to Godzilla x Kong, with Grant Sputore set to direct the project from a script by Dave Callaham.

The film is the follow-up to 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which earned $571 million at the global box office.

Neill joins a cast that includes Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Matthew Modine, Alycia Debnam-Carey, and Dan Stevens, who reprises his role as veterinarian Trapper Beasley from last year’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the highest-grossing installment in the franchise.

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’s credits include the "Jurassic Park" franchise, "Hunt for the Wilderpeople", and "The Piano", among many others. He was most recently seen in "Apples Never Fall" for Peacock.

Source: Press Release