The MonsterVerse remains to be mainly a movie franchise, with all 5 launched films out there to stream with a Max subscription, and a sixth film is popping out in 2027. Nonetheless, in the event you’re signed up for an Apple TV+ subscription, you’ll have entry to the franchise’s sole live-action TV providing, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Three months after Season 1 concluded, Monarch was renewed for Season 2, and I’m delighted by how the forged celebrated the tip of manufacturing practically a yr after the large announcement.
Monarch Season 2 started filming in July 2024, and eight months later, cameras have formally stopped rolling on the following batch of episodes. This replace shared on Instagram and different social media platforms was accompanied by an image of actors Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe and Takehiro Hira, in addition to an amusing message for us to not look too carefully on the wreckage surrounding them.
Hmmmm, one thing tells me there may need been some Titan exercise on this space. Whereas I think the characters these 4 play aren’t having one of the best of occasions in no matter this scene for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is, Sawai, Clemons, Watabe and Hira appear to be they’re having a blast. Eight months is a very long time to work on a TV present and even some films, in order that they had been undoubtedly ecstatic as soon as filming wrapped.
Though I can’t say this with 100% certainty, that’s possible the place the Monarch forged and crew shot Cranium Island scenes. The Operation Hourglass automobile majorly helps this idea, as Sawai’s Cate Randa, Clemons’ Could and Mari Yamamoto’s Keiko had been in a position to escape Axis Mundy, the realm between Earth and Hole Earth, in it. Within the closing minutes of Monarch Season 1’s ending, the trio emerged on Cranium Island, albeit a couple of yr and a half after Cate and Could had been thrown into Axis Mundy.
So if I’m appropriate, and I’m fairly certain I’m, we’ll be spending extra time on Cranium Island in Monarch Season 2, which is sensible. In spite of everything, with an Apex Cybernetics facility established on the island, in addition to Kong nonetheless residing there at this level within the MonsterVerse timeline, it’d be a waste to not revisit this location the place so most of the Titans reside. Nonetheless, with a lot wreckage strewn round, evidently a few of these big monsters are going to trigger fairly the ruckus round a few of Cranium Island’s artifical buildings.
With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 1 going down a yr after the occasions of Godzilla, Season 2 will happen roughly two years earlier than Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Whereas particular plot particulars stay a tightly-guarded secret, Anna Sawai did say final November that she hopes Cate Randa may have extra company on this subsequent chapter. We additionally know that Prey’s Amber Midthunder has been forged in Monarch Season 2 to play an “clever and highly effective businesswoman.”
It’s good to know that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 is completed filming, however it hasn’t revealed but when it can debut on Apple TV+. Possibly it’ll be prepared in time for a late drop on the 2025 TV schedule, or possibly it’ll be saved till 2026. Both manner, depend on CinemaBlend to proceed sharing updates about what’s forward on Monarch.