Godzilla’s newest return capped a superb first season for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The Apple TV Plus collection’ season got here to an finish on Thursday evening with the discharge of episode 10, and it gave us a reasonably clear image for the way the present ties into future Godzilla motion pictures. However that doesn’t imply there isn’t room for one more season.
Sadly, we don’t have many official clues concerning the present’s second season but, together with whether or not or not it’s truly taking place. However till we get official affirmation of extra Godzilla on the small display screen, right here’s all the things we find out about Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ attainable second season.
Is Godzilla: Legacy of Monsters season 2 taking place?
We don’t know for positive, however Apple usually takes some time to verify new seasons. As an illustration, its breakout hit Severance didn’t get an official season 2 renewal till virtually 4 months after its first season ended. The opposite excellent news for Monarch followers is that Apple doesn’t usually cancel reveals after their first season, so it’s probably that we’ll get a return for season 2. However we’ll have to attend for official phrase earlier than we all know for positive.
When would Godzilla: Legacy of Monsters season 2 be launched?
With out affirmation that the present is again for positive, it’s in all probability protected to say that if we do get season 2, it received’t be any time quickly. Because the present hasn’t gone into manufacturing on a brand new season but, we in all probability received’t be getting it till not less than the again half of 2025, and possibly even later.
What’s Kong doing within the Monarch season 1 finale?
An ideal query — in a meta approach, he’s in all probability there to tee up Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which is coming in just some months. However within the story, he’s merely one other titan that’s handed via to our world.
Season 1’s finale left everybody in an odd place — actually, within the case of Shaw (Kurt Russell), who’s trapped in Axis Mundi. Cate (Anna Sawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watabe) meet their grandmother Keiko (Mari Yamamoto), and together with Might (Kiersey Clemons) all of them handle to flee again into our world, solely to search out that the scenario has drastically modified.
For starters, Kentaro and his dad at the moment are working with Apex Cybernetics. And they’re very considering evacuating the spot the Axis Mundi survivors simply landed in, as a result of Kong is angrily stomping via the timber close by.
This may increasingly appear stunning, however technically Monarch has been set prior to now — nestled within the timeline simply after 2014’s Godzilla. By leaping forward in time, we’re nearer in-universe to the occasions of Godzilla vs. Kong.
What is going to season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters be about?
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Relying on when it will get greenlit, Monarch might proceed being the ground-level connective tissue between the Monsterverse motion pictures. It might probably bridge Godzilla vs. Kong and The New Empire, but it surely may be coping with the fallout of the latter, if the collection needs to leap forward in time. Both approach, the actors behind the principle trio agree they’re excited to see their characters take extra of an energetic position within the machinations of Monarch (and now Apex).
“I like that Cate finds function in the direction of the top,” Sawai says of her character’s ending. “As a result of up till then she’s working away from all the things. And he or she’s sort of compelled into discovering solutions, and I feel there may be a lot potential in the place she’s going. I hope that if there may be [a season 2], that we get to see her take [initiative] and stroll with the boldness her grandma has.”
Clemons hopes a brand new season lets Might “should take duty for her actions” if it occurs: “I wish to see that put her ready of selecting if she needs to be an individual in energy or not, and what she would do if she had quite a lot of energy.”
Contemplating how shut Might and Cate had been getting by the top of season 1, season 2 might lean into their relationship — probably (hopefully?) by making it extra overtly romantic.
“There’s an attraction. However that’s not the main focus of the story,” Clemons says. “It’s sort of cool, as a result of I really feel like they only informed us that that is the place we sort of possibly need this to go, and I feel it simply occurred organically, you realize? We stored that at the back of our thoughts.
“If we now have a season 2 it’s on,” Clemons laughs.
What different Godzilla content material can I watch within the meantime?
Whereas the anticipate Monarch’s potential second season might be lengthy, the excellent news is that there’s loads of nice Godzilla motion pictures to observe till then. When you might at all times compensate for the a long time of films Godzilla has starred in since he burst onto the scene in 1954, you possibly can additionally simply follow extra fashionable fare. There’s Shin Godzilla from 2016, in addition to 2023’s Godzilla Minus One. After all, you possibly can additionally return via the remainder of the Monsterverse to prepare for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which is about to hit theaters on March 29.