Graduating from dinosaurs to kaiju, Sam Neill is the latest actor to join the next MonsterVerse movie at Legendary. The Jurassic Park veteran joins Kaitlyn Dever, who is also new to the franchise and headlining the human cast that includes Jack O’Connell, returning actor Dan Stevens, and Delroy Lindo.

The film is a follow-up to 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Plot details for this next entry are being kept deep underneath the Earth’s crust for now, though the studio has revealed it will feature “several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat.

Director Grant Sputore, best known for I Am Mother, is helming the film from a script by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse writer Dave Callaham. Callaham also helped establish the MonsterVerse with a story credit on 2014’s Godzilla.

Sam Neill was recently seen in the Peacock series Apples Never Fall and will next be on the small screen in the Netflix mystery series Untamed.

The yet-untitled Godzilla x Kong follow up hasn’t announced a release date, but stay tuned for updates as we hear them.