Monsterverse Series Tied to Godzilla/ Kong Films Greenlit at Apple TV+, From Chris Black and Matt Fraction
Apple TV+ has greenlit a live-action series set in the Monsterverse franchise that spawned the 2014 film Godzilla, followed by Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong.
“Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real,” the official synopsis reads, “the series explores one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.”
Monarch, in the Monsterverse built by the film studio Legendary, is an organization that was founded in secrecy, as a joint coalition between several governments in order to hunt and study “massive unidentified terrestrial organisms.”
The untitled Monsterverse series will be produced by the Legendary Television arm and executive-produced by co-creators Chris Black (Star Trek: Enterprise), who will also serve as showrunner, and Matt Fraction (of the Hawkeye comics).
Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell (of Safehouse Pictures) and Hiro Matsuoka and Takemasa Arita (of Godzilla character owner Toho Co. Ltd.) will also serve as EPs.
The Monsterverse films have accumulated close to $2 billion dollars globally at the box office, and also has spun off the upcoming Netflix anime series Skull Island.
Idk much about La Brea, but this sounds similar to what I assume that show is like.
Seems like the kind of thing that belongs on the big screen. Unless Kong and ‘Zilla are just going to sit around drinking beer and talking sports, which is a show I would watch.
I fear even with a big streaming service budget this will involve too many people talking about monsters instead of actual monster action. But Fraction is a reliably creative writer and I’ll give the project a chance.
Fraction hasn’t been reliable in years. He is still telling everyone the comic industry is fine and blames fans for it tanking rather then his woman who brought in political activist who couldn’t write and hated superheroes
The Japanese have been doing Kaiju movies for countless decades with no budget. If you want to be true to the material anything which shows a little more monster action but still captures the same feel would tick the right boxes.
I guess I need to catch up on those Monsterverse films so I have some idea what is going on.
The one complaint about the Godzilla movies is there is too much human drama, so I have ever confidence that a series based on monarch and its organisations just screams unnessesary human political drama. Debates and more debates. How the monsters need to be left alone, while at the same time building human constructs and observation towers in hollow earth
Yes, I get the feeling that the show will be way more about the verse than the monster. Do we really think there’s going to be much Godzilla beyond stock footage and maybe a glimpse? Full on monster fights, nah.
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Still they’re trying to make sure I subscribe to every steamer out there. Paramount and Discovery+, whatcha got? (Amazon will probably get me with their Lord of the Rings stuff).
i dont understand why they cant make the monsters talk and get some character development from them, that be something different in a good way
A serious Journey to the Center of the Earth movie or series would be great,
maybe we can have king kong vs king ghidorah and king ghidorah vs mechagodzilla, i dont think their paths have crossed ever
With Tohei as EP this is sure to not dive into any PC crap and stay focused on the story. This will drive fraction crazy and force him to stay on task. Don’t tick oFf Tohei . Look what happened with 98 Godzilla