Apple TV+ showed off some juicy details — as well as the first images — from its upcoming series based on Legendary’s Monsterverse.
For starters, the show now has a title: Monarch: Legacy of Beasts. And as the image at the top of this story shows, Godzilla will be a huge part of the series. In addition, the tape also revealed the characters – or rather, the personality, singular – that of father and son Kurt Wyatt Russell will play.
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Story of the Monarch: Legacy of Beasts It will span three generations and focus on two brothers who follow in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secret organization known as the Monarch – a kaiju-tracking group featured in the legendary Monsterverse movies.
The siblings’ search eventually leads them to Army officer Lee Shaw, played by Wyatt Russell as a young man in the 1950s and Kurt Russell in the show’s present, which is set after the events of 2014. Godzilla. The description of the show reads “Monarch threatened by what Shaw knows”, W.J Monsters Legacy It will “reveal buried secrets and the ways in which the epic, earth-shattering events in our lives can reverberate.”
Anna SawaiIt also stars Kiersey Clemons, Ren Wattab, Mary Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasofsky.
Chris Black (Outcast, Star Trek: Enterprise) and break matt (hook(Co-Development Series, Matt Shakman)Wandavision) Take out the first two loops. They are responsible for producing the legendary TV series with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures, Andy Goddard, Brad Van Aragon and Andrew Colville. Hiro Matsuoka and Takemasa Arita of Toho Co. Ltd. , which owns Godzilla and other monster characters and has licensed them to Legendary, also executive products. (Toho has its own new one Godzilla film It’s set to hit North American theaters in December.)
More photos from Monarch: Legacy of Beasts below.
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