It seems that Legendary’s MonsterVerse will be continuing on the small-screen. Apple TV+ has given a series order to a new original live-action TV series based on Godzilla and the other titans found in the big-screen franchise.
Legendary Television will produce the Godzilla TV series with Chris Black (Star Trek: Enterprise) and Matt Fraction (Hawkeye) onboard as co-creators and executive producers, with Black also serving as showrunner. After the “thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real,” the series will explore “one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.” Legendary’s MonsterVerse began in 2014 with Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla and expanded to include Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong. The MonsterVerse franchise has grossed close to $2 billion worldwide.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ve seen the end of the MonsterVerse on the big-screen. It was reported last year that Legendary was in early talks with Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard to helm the next instalment of the franchise on the big-screen. The studio also reportedly saw the potential in developing a spin-off TV series, but rather than go with HBO Max, they began talking with other interested buyers. Apple TV quickly emerged as the strongest contender and made a deal to develop the series. In addition to this Godzilla TV series, there’s also an anime Skull Island series in development for Netflix. Is there potential for a MonsterVerse TV series?