KYLE CHANDLER SIGNS ON TO GODZILLA 2: co-star’s as Millie Bobby Brown’s Dad

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Kong: Skull Island will stomp into movie theaters on March 10, so it makes sense that we’re hearing more rumblings about Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the next giant monster movie. First came word that young Millie Bobby Brown, who broke out big in the Netflix series Stranger Things, will star.

Now Kyle Chandler has joined the cast, per Variety. Chandler, who costarred in Peter Jackson’s King Kong back in 2005 (above), will portray Brown’s father. The movie is a sequel to the 2014 reboot of Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards. Reportedly, Ken Watanabe is the only member of that cast who will reprise his role. But no plot details are known!

Michael Dougherty (Krampus) will direct; it’s due in theaters on March 22, 2019.

With some shenanigans regarding rights: Legendary and Warner Bros. announced in late 2015 that all future “King Kong” and “Godzilla” films would be developed by Legendary and distributed by Warner Bros., starting with “Kong: Skull Island” in March. Legendary currently holds a distribution deal with Universal, but in order to re-team Godzilla and King Kong, the studio returned the rights to WB.

Chandler is coming off Netflix’s second season of “Bloodline,” which is about to go into its third and final season of production, and was recently seen in the Oscar-nominated drama “Manchester by the Sea.” And Millie Bobby Brown will be back as Eleven just in time for Halloween.