Earlier this yr, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire opened on the 2024 films schedule and, like Godzilla vs. Kong, crushed on the field workplace. However that wasn’t the one story set within the MonsterVerse to observe in 2024, because the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 1 finale dropped in January, and some months later, Season 2 was formally introduced. Whereas it’s nonetheless unclear when these with an Apple TV+ subscription will be capable to stream the subsequent batch of Monarch episodes, Anna Sawai has shared what she assume to her character, Cate Randa, subsequent season, and I fully agree together with her.
Earlier than she earned important approval for her efficiency as Toda Mariko in Shogun (which might be streamed with a Hulu subscription) and gained the Primetime Emmy for Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Collection, Sawai was outrunning Titans like Godzilla in Monarch. With Season 2 having lately begun filming, right here’s what the actress advised TVLine about what she hopes is forward for Cate:
I really feel like Cate ought to have extra company. In Season 1, she is sort of the sufferer — thrown into all of it and generally wanting to return to her regular life. However after happening to Axis Mundi, she ought to come out as a special particular person. She’s seen stuff that she didn’t know earlier than. They’ve solutions and issues to do now.
Quite a bit was certainly thrown at Cate Randa in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ first season, from studying about her secret half-brother, Kentaro, to being thrust into a worldwide journey with him, Could and Lee Shaw to seek out their shared father, to ending up in Axis Mundi and assembly her grandmother Keiko, who hadn’t aged because of time passing in another way in that realm. By the point Cate, Could and Keiko resurface from Axis Mundi, it was 2017, two years after the previous two ladies had fallen by that portal. So yeah, Anna Sawai is appropriate that lots occurred to Cate, however it’d be good for her to be extra in management when Season 2 rolls round.
Admittedly, there’s solely a lot management one can have when nose to nose with a Titan, however when these big monsters aren’t current, I’ll have an interest to see how the company Sawai needs for Cate is proven in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2. It might be some time till we get our first inkling of what is going to be, although, as no official plot particulars for Season 2 have been revealed but apart from Amber Midthunder becoming a member of the solid. Nonetheless, going off Season 1’s ending, we are able to infer the Apple TV+ present will proceed exploring the time interval between the MonsterVerse’s first Godzilla film and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Apex Cybernetics may even seemingly have a extra distinguished position within the narrative.
As quickly as concrete particulars about Monarch Season 2 are available, CinemaBlend will move them alongside. For now, don’t overlook that the MonsterVerse films might be streamed with a Max subscription, and {that a} Godzilla x Kong sequel is about to return out on March 26, 2027.