You can’t keep a good monster down. Those Titans stomp wherever they damn well please – already, Godzilla and Kong have waded their way from cinemas and onto the small screen in Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, the Apple TV spin-off from Warner Bros’ MonsterVerse series. And now, as Monarch prepares to launch its upcoming Season 2 in February, there’s officially more monster madness to come. Wyatt Russell is confirmed to lead a Legacy Of Monsters spin-off for Apple, reprising the role of the young Colonel Lee Shaw.
The first season of Monarch had a rather nifty time-hopping structure, unspooling various plot threads – seeing Russell and his father, the legendary Kurt Russell, both playing Lee Shaw at different ages. Both are returning for Season 2 of Monarch, which will be set partially in the 1950s, and also in the (roughly) present day (it’s unknown exactly where within the MonsterVerse timeline of movies). Right now, the new show is simply known as ‘Untitled Young Lee Shaw Spin-Off’ – here’s a synopsis: “The spinoff series will follow the story of Colonel Lee Shaw, an American operative who in 1984 went on a secret mission behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop the Soviets from unleashing a horrific new Titan big enough to destroy the U.S. and turn the tide of the Cold War.”
Wyatt Russell is on board as a producer, while the show is created by Joby Harold – the Obi-Wan Kenobi alumnus who’s just been announced as the head of the small-screen MonsterVerse story for Apple. That means Harold is overseeing Monarch, the Lee Shaw series, and other small-screen kaiju projects – should there be any – connected to the Godzilla x Kong saga.
It’s unknown exactly when the Lee Shaw series will arrive, but Monarch Season 2 is coming on February 27 next year, and Godzilla x Kong: Supernova hits cinemas in March 2027. In the words of Ken Watanabe’s Dr. Serizawa in 2014’s Godzilla: “Let them fight!”
