Despite the global streaming success of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and the Wyatt Russell Cold War prequel spinoff now in production in Prague, Czechia and London, UK (working title‘Birdwatcher’), it’s third season renewal remains uncertain.
Apple and Legendary Television are reportedly in discussions about a significant reworking of the show with a new creative team and showrunners and promises of more new titans.
For those of us, especially in the international audience, who really liked how Monarch was more grounded and leaned back into the original grounded and character-driven narratives that we saw in the 2014 film and in Skull Island, this is not great news.
For the younger audience (mainly in the US) who have been so vocally critical of Monarch, this seems to be a reset to change their narrative.
The reports say that any new direction for Monarch will not affect the prequel show with Wyatt Russell.
Season 1 was ok, but not great, Season 2 was bad, I dropped out in mid season. It’s very unlikely I will be back for a third season no matter what. I didn’t knew they were doing the spinoff, that could be interesting
The spin off will take place in the 1980s after Lee Shaw returns from the Axis world the first time.
It’s being promoted as having a different tone, mixing Kaiju and Cold War spy thriller stuff. The cast seems packed for action.