“I think there's many more adventures that you could get out of him.” From the moment Dan Stevens’ flamboyant Trapper rolls into Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire sporting a blindingly bright Hawaiian shirt and singing along to Greenflow’s “I Got’cha,” fans fell in love with his scene-stealing Titan veterinarian. Brought in to treat Kong’s infected tooth, Trapper becomes an essential part of Team Monarch, joining the Hollow Earth expedition to investigate a mysterious signal — and getting all the coolest one-liners along the way.
In hindsight, it’s a surprise that Stevens didn’t join MonstersVerse even soon considering his close creative relationship with Adam Wingard , who directed Stevens in 2014’s The Guest before going on to make Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Not that the actor is complaining, mind you.
He’d just happy it happened. “[Wingard is] very on top of his craft in terms of taking the audience for that ride,” Stevens tells Inverse in an interview promoting his upcoming horror film, Cuckoo . “I love being in the hands of solid filmmakers who know how to play with an audience.
” Dan Stevens praises director Adam Wingard, but is also excited about new director Grant Sputore. Wingard won’t be directing the next MonsterVerse movie. Instead, I Am Mother director Grant Sputore will helm the Godzilla x Kong sequel.
But despite Wingard parting ways with the franchise, Stevens would be happy to don the Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses .