With production slated to begin this June in Atlanta on Godzilla: King of Monsters, they NEED a rough edgy star. Warner Bros. and Legendary want Straight Outta Compton’s O’Shea Jackson Jr!
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CelebNMovies247.com has just got word that Godzilla 2 wants Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr for the highly-anticipated Godzilla: King of Monsters.
The Godzilla 2 cast is already listed on IMDB.com stating that Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring 2), Kyle Chandler (Game Night), Ken Watanabe (Godzilla, Transformers: The Last Knight, Inception) and O’Shea Jackson Jr (Straight Outta Compton) are confirmed.
Godzilla: King of Monsters serves as a follow-up to the 2014 blockbuster Godzilla. Variety broke the news of this casting. However, no details were given for his character, he is just the latest addition to the cast. While it remains to be seen how many more new characters will come aboard, it is believed that only one actor from the 2014 Godzilla will return. It will be Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) who returns from the 2014 blockbuster Godzilla.
What we know about Godzilla 2?
If you saw Knog: Skull Island, then you saw the post-credit/lead in for Godzilla 2 which featured Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston’s Mason Weaver and James Conrad. They are joined by the Monarch corporation’s Houston Brooks (Corey Hawkins) and San (Tian Jeng), who tell them that Kong is not the only monster on Earth. The scene showed images of King Ghidorah, Mothra and Rodan, along with a final painting that shows Godzilla and King Ghidorah fighting. It was the same thing that was revealed at Comic-Con 2014.
Back in October, Warner Bros. and Legendary set up a Godzilla and King Kong writers room, which will be lead by Michael Dougherty and Zack Shields (Krampus), who will be writing the script for Godzilla: King of Monsters. Michael Dougherty will direct.
Godzilla: King of Monsters is set for release on March 22, 2019. Godzilla: King of Monsters will be lead in film for Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong, which is set for release on May 29, 2020.
In the meantime, you can see O’Shea Jackson Jr in the upcoming 50 Cent, Gerard Butler movie, Den of Thieves set for a January 19, 2018 release.
A couple months back, O’Shea was injured on the set of Den of Thieves [photo above].
“My man @osheajacksonjr hurt is shoulder trying to do some 50 shit, training for Den of thieves. I told him fuck you think, you doe boy nigga?? you light skin ICE CUBE. LMAO chill out.#denofthieves.”
