In what we’re sure is about to be one of many nice TV team-ups of all time—a buddy pairing on the order of Cagney & Lacey, Laverne & Shirley, and different beloved team-ups with an ampersand trapped betwixt their names—Apple TV+ has launched the primary teaser trailer for Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, a.okay.a. “The present the place Godzilla & Kurt Russell will quickly be hanging out.”
Okay, so there’s barely extra happening with the sequence than simply that individual collab-o, as Legendary’s fitfully extant “Monsterverse” Cinematic Universe lastly will get its personal WandaVision or Loki equal within the realm of streaming TV. That consists of what seems to be numerous leaping between timelines, a lot of it centered on Russell’s character, Lee Shaw, who seems as each a younger man within the Fifties, and within the trendy period; fortunately, producers had entry to “a younger Kurt Russsell-type” within the type of his son, Wyatt Russell, who performs the youthful Shaw.
Also showing within the trailer: John Goodman, who seems to be hanging out in a complete separate timeline of his personal, reprising his position from Kong: Skull Island, and giving the sequence a subtitle by speaking about his “legacy.” (Of monsters, presumably.) (Also, Workaholics star Anders Holm is outwardly taking part in a youthful Goodman, which is a wild factor to think about.) The sequence additionally stars Anne Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett, Elisa Lasowski, and Godzilla, who pops up on the finish of the trailer to remind that this is, in truth, a Godzilla TV present, a minimum of form of.
Because, we’re going to be sincere right here: This factor seems stupid-difficult for a present meant to provide a backstory to films about massive animals hitting one another a bunch. The Monsterverse films have at all times been a bit of too into their very own backstories—presumably hoping to create an online of narratives as wealthy and beloved as those that energy the MCU, regardless of having to make all these items up out of complete material as an alternative of counting on many years of comics—and Monarch feels prefer it’s steering into that facet of issues shockingly laborious.
But, hey: We’ll know extra when the sequence premieres on November 17.
