‘Godzilla x Kong’ Follow-Up Lands Jack O’Connell in Human Cast

Jack O’Connell, currently vamping it up in the trailer for Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Sinners, has joined the cast of the Legendary’s latest installment of its Godzilla-King Kong creature feature franchise.

Grant Sputore (I Am Mother) is directing the project, which is part of the company’s Monsterverse. Dave Callaham wrote the script.

Plot details are being kept under the Earth’s crust, but Legendary has said the story 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.” 

Kaitlyn Dever is headlining the human cast, which also sees the return of Dan Stevens, who played laid-back monster veterinarian and dentist Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

O’Connell is playing Dever’s brother.

The British actor became known to American audiences when he nabbed the lead role in Unbroken, Universal and Angelina Jolie’s harrowing survival tale of Olympian Louis Zamperini.

He recently appeared in Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black as well as Michael Mann’s Ferrari and has two high-profile studio movies hitting this year. He is one of the villains in opposite Michael B. Jordan in Sinners, which Warners opens April 18, and is part of the bold-faced cast of 28 Year Later, Danny Boyle’s return to the zombie genre. That thriller, which also features Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Comer, opens June 20 via Sony.

O’Connell is repped by UTA, Range Media, UK’s Conway van Gelder Grant and Sloane, Offer.