Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has found two more hardy souls willing to venture into dangerous territory for Kong: Skull Island. John Goodman and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’s Thomas Mann have joined the cast of the adventure film.
Kong, as you’ll likely know by now, finds a group of explorers – including the confirmed Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell and the slightly more nebulous, but likely to show up Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly – heading to the titular island and encountering the equally titular giant ape. Goodman, according to Deadline, is playing a government official named Randa who leads the expedition. Variety brings news of Mann’s casting, but only mentions that he’ll be part of the team.
With Vogt-Roberts aiming to shoot this autumn from a script that has seen work by Max Borenstein, John Gatins, Dan Gilroy and Derek Connolly, the film itself is set for a March 10, 2017 release in the UK and US. Originally set up by Legendary Pictures at current partner Universal, the movie recently shifted back to the production company’s old home Warner Bros., with Legendary hoping to spark a franchise that would eventually see Kong square off against Godzilla. We don’t like the ape’s chances on that match-up…
Goodman will next show up in Christmas With The Coopers, arriving on December 4. He follows that with Trumbo, which stars Bryan Cranston and arrives here on January 22. Mann has worked on several films without assigned UK release dates including Amityville: The Awakening and The Stanford Prison Experiment. He most recently shot Brain On Fire opposite Chloe Grace Moretz.
from Empire News
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