Zhang Ziyi joins ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’
ZHANG Ziyi, the international star of ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, has joined Legendary and Warner Bros.’ creature feature ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’.
The 38-year-old actress will also play a role in Legendary and Warner Bros.' burgeoning Monsterverse - what the studios are calling their monster-based cinematic universe.
Zhang will first appear in the sequel to 2014's ‘Godzilla', joining Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown in the followup that is set several years after the events of the original film.
Michael Dougherty is directing from a script by Dougherty and Zach Shields.
The actress will then appear in other monster instalments, including ‘Godzilla vs Kong', as her character is a key figure in the covert, creature-cataloging Monarch organisation established in those films.
‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters' is set to be released Mar 22, 2019. ‘Godzilla vs Kong' is slated to bow in 2020.
Zhang received Golden Globe award, BAFTA award and Screen Actors Guild award nominations for her role in ‘Memoirs of a Geisha'. Additional film credits include ‘Hero', ‘House of Flying Daggers', ‘2046', and ‘The Grandmaster'.
Zhang recently wrapped production on a sci-fi thriller produced by J.J. Abrams that is connected to his Cloverfield movies.
She is represented by ICM Partners and Mosaic.