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 collection 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 features what seems to be 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 fashionable period; fortunately, producers had entry to “a younger Kurt Russsell-type” within the type of his son, Wyatt Russell, who performs the youthful Shaw.
Additionally showing within the trailer: John Goodman, who seems to be hanging out in a complete separate timeline of his personal, reprising his function from Kong: Cranium Island, and giving the collection a subtitle by speaking about his “legacy.” (Of monsters, presumably.) (Additionally, Workaholics star Anders Holm is seemingly taking part in a youthful Goodman, which is a wild factor to contemplate.) The collection 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 that is, in truth, a Godzilla TV present, no less than type of.
As a result of, we’re going to be sincere right here: This factor seems to be stupid-complicated for a present meant to present a backstory to films about large animals hitting one another a bunch. The Monsterverse films have at all times been a bit too into their very own backstories—presumably hoping to create an internet of narratives as wealthy and beloved as those that energy the MCU, regardless of having to make all these items up out of complete fabric as a substitute of counting on a long time of comics—and Monarch feels prefer it’s steering into that aspect of issues shockingly exhausting.
However, hey: We’ll know extra when the collection premieres on November 17.
