Godzilla vs. Kong 2: Dan Stevens Joins The Cast, Adam Wingard Returns To Direct

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The visually stunning monster crossover movie Godzilla vs. Kong was released in March 2021, simultaneously in theaters and on HBOMax. Still, the scale of visual effects and action sequences managed to bring people to theaters despite the pandemic, and the movie grossed $468.2 million worldwide, which was enough for WB and Legendary Pictures to greenlight a sequel.

Deadline has learned now that Adam Wingard, director of Godzilla vs. Kong, will return to direct a sequel, and Dan Stevens is the first cast member officially announced to join the film. Wingard and Stevens previously worked together on the 2014 thriller The Guest. Stevens is also best known for the role of the Beast in 2017’s Disney live-action remake Beauty and the Beast.

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MonsterVerse started in 2014 with the Godzilla reboot directed by Gareth Edwards. The second movie was Kong: Skull Island in 2017. Godzilla got her own sequel in 2019 — Godzilla: King of the Monsters, before the crossover Godzilla Vs. Kong was released in 2021. Some fans expected that the franchise will conclude with the crossover, and it might, but definitely not before that same crossover gets at least one sequel. The whole MonsterVerse grossed $1.950 billion worldwide combined.

Unlike MCU, the MonsterVerse franchise isn’t used to keep the same actors for multiple movies, because this franchise isn’t really centered on human characters. Dan Stevens will join the franchise with the Godzilla Vs. Kong sequel, and it’s not known if some actors from the previous movie will return. But after all, it doesn’t matter who are the human characters in these movies, just give us the giant monkey and giant lizard, that’s all you need.

Godzilla vs. Kong 2 is set to begin production this summer in Australia. The release date is still TBA.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.