Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters Season 2 Adds Amber Midthunder
Amber Midthunder, whose TV credits include Roswell, New Mexico, Legion and Hulu's acclaimed Predator prequel movie Prey, has boarded the cast of Apple TV+'s Godzilla-Kong series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
As reported by sister site Variety, Midthunder will fill the Season 2 role of Isabel, an intelligent and powerful businesswoman.
It was back in April when Apple TV+ announced that it now only had renewed Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for a second season, but will also develop multiple spinoff series based on the Monsterverse franchise.
Set in the same Monsterverse as movies such as Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Monarch in Season 1 followed two timelines. In the "present" day (2015), we followed young Cate (a survivor of Godzilla's San Francisco rampage, played by Shōgun Emmy winner Anna Sawai), Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and May (Kiersey Clemons) as they sought out Cate and half-brother Kentaro's presumed-dead father Hiroshi, who had been involved with the mysterious Monarch agency.
That journey led the trio to Colonel Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell), who back in the day used to hunt MUTOs/Titans with Hiroshi's mom, Dr. Keiko Miura.
The other timeline skipped around the late 1940s/early 1950s, where a younger Lee (Wyatt "Son of Kurt" Russell), Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Bill Randa (Anders Holm) founded Monarch as a well-funded scientific arm of a very curious U.S. Army. But as Monarch oversight got passed around to increasingly disenfranchised military leaders, Lee, Keiko and Bill saw their contributions and power diminish.
In the 2015 timeline, Monarch itself — populated by Tim (Joe Tippett), Duvall (Elisa Lasowski) and boss lady Natalia (Mirelly Taylor) — loomed as a threat, one that was either harassing Cate & Co. or appealing to the young'uns for help. (Showrunner Chris Black broke down the timey-wimey season finale for TVLine here.)
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