Godzilla TV Show Based On Legendary’s Monsterverse Is In Development At Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is now working on an untitled TV show featuring the King of Monsters, Godzilla! The series is based on Legendary's monstrous franchise and will not only have Godzilla but several other titans as well! The plot of the upcoming show will focus on one family's journey through a world where titans exist, and they'll come to discover their ties to the secret organization known as Monarch along the way.

According to Deadline, Legendary Television is producing the series with Chris Black as executive producer. Matt Fraction will serve as showrunner along with Black. Toho Company will also have several members on board including Hiro Matsuoka and Takemasa Arita. Toho is the owner of the Godzilla character and has licensed the rights to Legendary for this series.

If Apple TV+ is joining the franchise, why wasn't HBO Max approached for this untitled series, questions Comic Book as Warner Bros. Pictures and HBO Max all fall to the same company. It all came down to money. Justin Kroll of Deadline explained that "Legendary saw an opportunity to get best price by taking it to the market rather than go straight to HBO Max and from what I had heard Apple was the front-runner to land series very early on in process." It's likely that HBO Max may pursue such a project, but right now, Apple TV+ and Netflix are on their own in terms of spin-offs.

We've seen Godzilla in a number of films starting in 2014 with Godzilla and continuing with 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, and 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Most recently we saw the gigantic creature in 2021's Godzilla v. Kong which became one of the first big box-office hits in the pandemic era.

Monsterverse has raked in $2 billion at the global box office and is now moving ahead with a new anime series, Skull Island which will continue the story of these monsters and myths and premiere globally on Apple TV+. The Verge notes that the show's tagline reads: A shipwrecked crew, an island of monsters, and one king to rule them all. Fans of series like Castlevania and Blood of Zeus will be excited to know that the same animation studio Powerhouse Animation will be behind Skull Island. According to Deadline, Brian Duffield (Underwater, The Babysitter) will write and executive produce the anime series alongside Jacob Robinson who will executive produce under his company, Tractor Pants.