With its $571.8 million worldwide haul, inserting it because the eighth highest-grossing film of 2024, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire did fairly nicely for itself. Selecting up three years after the occasions of Godzilla vs. Kong, the fifth MonsterVerse film launched the moviegoing public to Dan Stevens’ Trapper, a Monarch veterinarian/dentist for the Titans. Effectively, for these of you who favored what you noticed of Trapper in The New Empire (which might be streamed with a Max subscription), phrase’s are available that he’ll be again for the sequel, and I’m hoping this results in him being partnered again up with one other alum for final 12 months’s blockbuster.
Dan Stevens Is In Talks To Seem In The Godzilla X Kong Sequel
Per THR, Stevens is in negotiations to reprise Trapper for the yet-to-be-officially-titled Godzilla x Kong sequel, which is ready for a spring 2027 launch. The New Empire was one among three motion pictures the actor appeared in final 12 months, the opposite two being Cuckoo and Abigail. His forthcoming options embrace The Ritual and Swiped, that are each debuting on the 2025 launch schedule, and the not-yet-dated Onslaught, which groups him again up with director Adam Wingard.
That is the second piece of casting information in regards to the Godzilla x Kong sequel that’s are available. Final week, it was reported that Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever can be being lined as much as seem, though no particulars in regards to the character she’d be taking part in had been revealed. There additionally hasn’t been any plot data shared about Godzilla and Kong’s third go-around within the MonsterVerse in addition to that it’s going to function “a number of new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off in opposition to a cataclysmic world-ending menace.”
I Hope We See Trapper Paired With Brian Tyree Henry’s Bernie Once more
Assuming Dan Stevens involves a satisfiable deal to reprise Trapper within the Godzilla x Kong sequel, which is being directed by Grant Sputore and written by David Callaham, I’m hoping we’ll see him spend extra time with Bernie Hayes, Brian Tyree Henry’s character. He was launched in Godzilla vs. Kong as a former Apex worker who began a podcast to share his conspiracy theories in regards to the Titans. Bernie then returned in The New Empire to accompany Trapper, Ilene Andrews and Jia to Hole Earth to find the supply of a sign being despatched out.
Trapper and Bernie rapidly shaped a friendship in the course of the occasions of The New Empire, and it will be nice to see extra of their dynamic collectively now that they’ve had much more time to spend with one another. It might even be good for the MonsterVerse to lastly function a personality for extra than simply two motion pictures. That has but to be achieved within the franchise, however my fingers are crossed that Bernie will likely be bequeathed that honor if he and Trapper are hanging out once more.
Because the Godzilla x Kong sequel doesn’t come out till March 26, 2027, it’s a superb wager filming will start someday earlier than the 12 months is over. As such, ideally it received’t be lengthy till Dan Stevens’ involvement is formally confirmed, however we will see.