“SILICON Valley” star Thomas Middleditch is joining Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla: King of Monsters.” Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Godzilla’s nuclear family will be played by Vera Farmiga, “Stranger Things” breakout Millie Bobbie Brown and Kyle Chandler, who will star as a scientist. O’Shea Jackson Jr. is also set for the Legendary project from “Krampus” director Michael Dougherty. Warners has dated the monster movie sequel — a follow-up to Gareth Edwards’ 2014 reboot, which earned US$529.1 million worldwide — for March 22, 2019. The studio’s blockbuster crossover, “Godzilla vs. Kong,” is set for a May 29, 2020 release. This is the biggest role to date for Middleditch, who is best known for playing the hoodie-obsessed tech inventor Richard Hendricks on the popular HBO series. His feature credits have largely been small-budgeted Sundance fare, including “Joshy,” “The Bronze” and “Kong” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ “The Kings of Summer.”(SD-Agencies) |