After stomping by means of theaters once more in 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, the King of the Monsters is making an attempt to beat streaming as properly. Again in January, Apple TV+ introduced that a live-action Godzilla series was in growth. At this time, we’ve a couple of extra particulars, as WandaVision director Matt Shakman has signed on to direct a part of the collection.
Shakman will direct the primary two episodes and function government producer. We nonetheless haven’t got a full title for the present, which Apple TV+ refers to as Godzilla and the Titans whereas additionally nonetheless calling it the “untitled Monsterverse series.”
The present follows the occasions of 2014’s Godzilla, the place Godzilla and the MUTOs met in San Francisco for a large battle. One household must dive into its previous to uncover its secret connection to the worldwide group referred to as Monarch. The collection is co-created by Chris Black, a author on Star Trek: Enterprise and Outcast, and Matt Fraction, author of comics like Hawkeye, The Defenders, and Intercourse Criminals. Black may even function the showrunner for the collection.
The untitled Apple TV+ collection is not the one upcoming entry in Legendary’s Monsterverse. Final week, Legendary tapped Dan Stevens because the star of the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel movie. In accordance with Deadline, Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard will probably be returning for the sequel, with manufacturing starting this summer season in Australia.
There’s additionally the animated series Skull Island, which is being produced for Netflix. Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind different Netflix animated reveals like Castlevania, Blood of Zeus, and Masters of the Universe: Revelation, is dealing with the present. Much like the movie Kong: Cranium Island, the present will deal with a crew shipwrecked on the legendary island.
Neither Cranium Island, the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel, nor the live-action Godzilla collection have any kind of launch window. So there is a brilliant future for Godzilla and King Kong followers, we simply do not know when that future goes to be realized.
