Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
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So how do you make a good Godzilla movie without much, you know, Godzilla?
Monarch: Legacy of Monstersis not the first time Godzilla has stomped on the small screen.
ButMonarchhas more riding on it, as its attempting to make the MonsterVerse a multimedia franchise.
(That its coming out as theMarvelandStar WarsTV efforts are getting wobbly isinteresting.
Right away, the premise ofMonarchthreatens to constrain these giant monsters.
The story takes place across two timelines.
The first is in the 1950s, where Wyatt Russell plays an Army officer named Lee Shaw.
Kentaro begrudgingly agrees that they need to learn more about whoever their dad really was.
Inside is Randas bag, and inside Randas bag are a bunch of tapes of some sort.
Kentaro brings them to his ex, May, an American expat and coder.
Cate recognizes the Monarch symbol since she saw Monarch agents and researchers on G-Day.
Neither she nor Kentaro knew their family was connected to Monarch or this Titan business before now.
A week later, Cate got word that his plane had been reported lost in Alaska.
That brings us to Monarchsothertimeline.
Theyre joined by Wyatt Russells Lee Shaw, an Army officer tasked with keeping these two researchers safe.
This isnt their first rodeo they reference past encounters with Titans and MUTOs.
But show me a monster egg thatdoesnthatch, and Ill show you a wasted narrative.
Presumably, this wont be the last we see of Keiko.
And, also, a monster story.
Until then, enjoy the MonsterVerses somewhat generic-looking original kaiju.
Its interesting that Godzilla is the focus of all of Japans anti-Titan branding.
the Big G.
