Officially titled Meg 2: The Trench, Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to the 2018 action-horror movie The Meg, and more casting news has arrived.
THR reports that Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Skyler Samuels (“Scream Queens”) and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood) have joined the Warner Bros. sequel.
Interesting to note, both Guillory and Peris-Mencheta were in Resident Evil: Afterlife, Guillory playing video game character Jill Valentine and Peris-Mencheta playing Angel.
THR details, “Peris-Mencheta is playing one of the film’s antagonists, a hard-edged mercenary. Guillory is the head of an applied sciences division while Samuels is an adventure-loving member of Statham’s submarine crew.”
The site adds that The Meg stars Cliff Curtis, Sophia Cai and Page Kennedy are also back in Meg 2: The Trench, which began filming in the United Kingdom last month.
The sequel’s script has been written by Dean Georgaris and Jon & Erich Hoeber.
Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg, based on Steve Alten’s Meg novels, was released in theaters back in 2018, devouring over $500 million at the worldwide box office. Jason Statham starred as heroic shark-slayer Jonas Taylor, part of a group of scientists exploring the Mariana Trench who encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed – the Megalodon.
Sienna Guillory in ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’