Father-and-son Kurt and Wyatt Russell return as older-and-younger versions of Lee Shaw.
Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters moved production from Vancouver and Hawaii to Queensland, Australia for season 2, which features King Kong as the main Monster.
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The series did spend three days in Vancouver last June shooting at one of its old haunts — the grounds of Panther Paintball in Surrey.
Season 2 “picks up with the fate of Monarch — and the world — hanging in the balance,. The dramatic saga reveals buried secrets that reunite our heroes (and villains) on Kong’s Skull Island, and a new, mysterious village where a mythical Titan rises from the sea. The ripple effects of the past make waves in the present day, blurring the bonds between family, friend and foe — all with the threat of a Titan event on the horizon.
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Anna Sawai,, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett and Anders Holm return for season 2, too.
What happened in season one?
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga – spanning three generations – reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.
Season One starred Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell as older and younger Lee Shaw and Anna Sawai as Cate Randa , a teacher who had an up close and personal experience with Godzilla in 2014 San Francisco.
After a series of timey wimey adventures with Godzilla and the Titans, Cate (Anna Sawai), her grandmother Dr. Keiko Miura (Mari Yamamoto) – who hasn’t aged in 56 years – and friend May (Kiersey Clemons) escape the Axis Mundi below the surface where time passes differently. They arrive on Skull Island in 2017 where they reunite with Cate’s stepbrother Kentaro (Ren Watabe), Kate and Kentaro’s middle-aged father Hiroshi (Takehiro Hira) and Tim (Joe Tippett) who are now working at the Apex Cybernetics’s Research Center not Monarch. We hear King Kong roaring in the distance.
Left behind in the Axis Mundi is the older Lee (Kurt Russell).
We couldn’t be more excited for viewers to not only have the chance to experience even more thrills in season two, but to embark on epic, new journeys in the franchise, as we expand Legendary’s Monsterverse. — Apple TV+ head of international development f Morgan Wandell.
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Season 2:
Episodes: 10
Working title: Hourglass.
Queensland filming dates: July 29, 2024 –
Showrunner: Chris Black.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, Elisa Lasowski.,Takehiro Hira.
Producers: Legendary Television, Safehouse Pictures, Apple TV+.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 premieres February 27 2026 on Apple TV.