Apple TV Plus has released its first trailer for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a 10-episode sequence primarily based on Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise that options iconic kaiju-like Godzilla, King Kong, and King Ghidorah. The primary two episodes might be launched globally to the streaming platform on November seventeenth, adopted by a single episode every week till January twelfth.
The trailer itself doesn’t give a lot away concerning what else we are able to anticipate. There are a number of snippets of Invoice Randa (performed by John Goodman) who featured in Kong: Cranium Island (2017), flashes of assorted large beasties, and naturally, an ominous soundscape underpinning photographs of all the fantastic destruction they’ve seemingly induced. If, like me, you’re a Monsterverse fan since you simply love watching large creatures battling like apocalyptic pokémon, then it’s wanting fairly promising thus far.
The sequence picks up after the occasions of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), following two siblings as they discover their household’s connection to Monarch — the mysterious group that’s been meddling with Godzilla, King Kong, and different primordial titans. Set throughout a number of time durations, the siblings’ journey leads them to Military officer Lee Shaw (performed by each Kurt Russell and his real-life son Wyatt Russell) and explores his involvement with Monarch because the Fifties.
Additionally starring Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters goals to discover “the query of who the true monsters are“ in a world the place humanity is making an attempt to co-exist with a newly found inhabitants of large titans.
It’s good to see that Warner Bros. and Toho are nonetheless devoted to their shared Monsterverse undertaking. The following film within the franchise — Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — is scheduled to be launched within the US on April twelfth subsequent 12 months, so we received’t have too lengthy to attend earlier than we are able to get one other titan-fighting repair in theaters.
