We’ve been ready an excellent lengthy whereas to listen to extra in regards to the sophomore season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Apple TV and Legendary’s glorious spinoff of the “Monsterverse” Godzilla movies, after season one wrapped up in early 2024. Properly, good issues come to those that wait, together with a number of members of the Russell household performing dynasty and a few very sizeable simians.
This morning Apple TV dropped a brand new trailer to verify that Monarch will return to the streamer early subsequent yr on February 27. Selecting up the place the primary season left off, the present will proceed to flash backwards and forwards throughout the lifetime of Lee Shaw (performed as a younger Military officer within the Fifties by Wyatt Russell and within the modern-day by his father Kurt), as he helps two siblings uncover their very own household’s connection to the mysterious titular group because it makes an attempt to analysis and counter the rise of titanic threats.
Season one ended on a little bit of a cliffhanger, with the elder Shaw’s destiny unsure, however Apple did affirm that Kurt Russell shall be again for extra in season two, alongside different returning stars Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett, and Anders Holm. However past acquainted human faces, there’ll be acquainted monsters too: in addition to a cavalcade of freaky-looking new creatures, the brand new trailer additionally confirmed that season two will deliver our heroes to Cranium Island, the house of King Kong—and that, after all, Kong shall be making the island’s new visitors really feel proper at house in his personal method.
It’s no shock that Monarch season two will incorporate Kong, simply as Godzilla himself served as an overarching presence throughout season one. Kong has grow to be an increasing number of integral to the Monsterverse motion pictures since Godzilla vs. Kong and The New Empire, and with Supernova on the way in which in 2027, it’s no shock that we’d begin seeing the groundwork for that film teased in Kong’s appearances right here.
We’ll begin seeing if Monarch season two can dwell as much as the good promise of its predecessor when it premieres on Apple TV February 27, 2026, rolling out the rest of the 10-episode season on a weekly foundation after that.
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