Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2: Key Info
– Announced in April 2024
– Filming was completed in March 2025
– No release date or trailer revealed yet
– Most of the main roles are expected to return
– So far, a new addition has been announced
– Will pick up directly after the first season
– Several spin-offs were also confirmed
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 is ready to stomp onto Apple TV. With principal photography wrapped on the show’s next installment in March, we hope it won’t be too long before the sci-fi drama is back on our screens.
Full spoilers follow before Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 1. Potential season 2 spoilers is also incoming.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Release Date Prediction
Pay no attention to the destruction in the background. It’s a wrap on #Monarch season 2. pic.twitter.com/UZKOhyfzRC18 March 2025
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 does not yet have a confirmed launch date. However, with principal photography wrapping up in March after a five-month shoot, the series’ next installment is well into its post-production phase at this stage.
So when do we think the Apple TV Original with Godzilla will return? We believe a mid-2026 launch window is the most likely scenario. Hopefully we’ll get a final release date in the near future, and with Brazil Comic-Con (CCXP) 2025 around the corner, an announcement could be made there.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Trailer: Is There One?
No. Again, though, CCXP 2025 seems like a good place to release the first teaser for Season 2. If and when a trailer is revealed, we’ll update this section.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Cast: Confirmed and Rumored
Full spoilers follow Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 1.
Given how Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2’s predecessor ended, as well as actors who have appeared in production photos as cameras rolled on this season, here are who we expect to see:
- Anna Sawai as Cate Randa
- Kiersey Clemons as May
- Ren Watabe as Kentaro
- Joe Tippett as Tim
- Mari Yamamoto as Keiko Randa
- Takehiro Hira as Hiroshi Randa
- Dominique Tipper as Brenda Holland
- Elisa Lasowski as Michelle Duvall
One major character that may not be back in Season 2 is Lee Shaw. Portrayed by father-son duo Kurt and Wyatt Russell last season — the pair played Shaw in the present and past, respectively — the US Army colonel was an integral part of the season’s cast.
However, in the Season 1 finale, Shaw appeared to die after sacrificing himself to ensure Cate and company could escape. Yes, Shaw could have survived, but we won’t know if Kurt Russell is part of the case until Season 2 debuts on one of the world’s best streaming services.
Unless Monarch season 2’s story unfolds over several periods, Wyatt Russell will not be back either. The same is the case with Anders Holm, where the actor will only repeat his role as the younger Bill Randa in flashbacks, which come on strong this season.
On the newcomers front, only one new cast addition has been announced – admittedly not officially – by the craftsmen. Per variety, Amber Midthunder (Exchange, Novocaine) is reportedly on board as Isabel, a character who will have a major recurring role to play in Season 2.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Story Speculations
Full spoilers follow Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 1. Potential spoilers for season 2 are also discussed.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2’s story map has yet to be revealed. But based on what happened in last season’s final episode, we can try to figure out where things might go next.
This is your final warning: major spoilers immediately follow for Season 1 Episode 10, titled ‘Beyond Logic’, so turn back now if you haven’t seen it.
Season 1 ended with Lee, Keiko, May, and Cate on a mission to escape the Hollow Earth, with Lee apparently sacrificing himself to let the others do it.
Arriving back in 2017, the trio breathes a sigh of relief. Well, until they realize that the sinister tech company Apex Cybernetics, run by Brenda Holland – May’s evil boss – is responsible for helping them get back home. Even worse, Cate and Kentaro’s father Hiroshi, plus Kentaro and Tim, are working for them.
Interestingly, the place they are brought back to is none other than Skull Island, aka the home of the towering ape known as Kong.
With this titan making a brief cameo in Season 1’s final scene, it’s possible Monarch season 2 could focus on him more than Godzilla, especially since these two monsters have not met at this point in the Monster-Verse timeline. In fact, they won’t cross paths until the 2021s Godzilla vs King.
Also, at this point in the timeline, Godzilla is fighting King Ghidorah in 2017’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Season 2 will then be a sort of interquel, with the story probably taking place between the aforementioned films.
If so, Kong and his future titan best will continue to be kept apart for now. Hopefully we’ll still get some kind of kaiju-on-kaiju action though Monarch season 2.
As for the human cast of one of the best Apple TV shows, it will be interesting to see how Cate, May, and Keiko deal with the fallout from their Hollow Earth trip, Apex rescues them, and Kentaro, Hiroshi, and Tim work with Apex to save the others.
Then there is the small matter of Keiko herself. She is Hiroshi’s mother and Cate and Kentaro’s grandmother, but she doesn’t look much older than either of them.
That’s because she was trapped in the hollow earth for decades, meaning she doesn’t age the same way humans do on the surface. How will she manage to live in a world far more technologically advanced than the one she left in the 1960s? And how much time will Monarch: Legacy of Monsters spend exploring the strained relationship she’ll have with Hiroshi, as well as the bonds she needs/wants to build with Cate and Kentaro?
There are certainly other narrative options to fill out the Monster-verse, including Monarch season 2 serves as more connective tissue in between King of monsters and Godzilla vs King. Depending on what plays out as part of this season’s story, The legacy of monsters will also lay the groundwork for other stories in this franchise. Speaking of which…
How will Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 affect the Monster-Verse?
Season 2 plus spin-offs. Now it’s a legacy. pic.twitter.com/9XjCzYulYS11 April 2024
Like the movies that spawned the idea for a Monster-Verse TV show, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 could serve as a starting point for other stories in this franchise.
As the above X/Twitter post revealed, when the series was renewed last April, Apple revealed that it had entered into a new multi-series deal with Legendary Entertainment, which included several spin-offs.
At the time, Morgan Wandell, head of international development for Apple TV, said, “We couldn’t be more excited that viewers will not only have the chance to experience even more excitement in season two, but to embark on epic new journeys in the franchise as we expand Legendary’s Monster-Verse.”
As for a third season of Monarch itself, there have been no murmurs of Apple and/or Legendary greenlighting it internally. As seems to be the case these days, a lot will depend on how much the show costs to make and its ratings. Until one or both companies publicly confirm whether Season 3 is in development, we’ll be none the wiser Monarch‘s return after its upcoming entry.
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