To one side, intimate series, dramas and family adventures: Apple TV + goes to the epic and action with its new series based on Godzilla and the Titans.
The Apple TV + television proposal It is very different from the rest. Their catalog is much smaller, but all its content is original production.
Until now, it had focused on producing series and films of extraordinary quality, but with a limited scope: family products, intimate series, dramas, or hardcore science fiction.
As it happened to Prime Video a couple of years ago, it has realized that need products box office to attract more subscribers. Amazon tries it with The Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings, and Apple TV + will try its own multiverse: that of Godzilla and the Titans.
The television platforms have found a vein in the multiverses: movies, series, comics and other content, initially independent, that intersects according to the whims of the writers (and marketing needs) to create all kinds of series, movies, spinoffs, etc.
Disney + destroys its Marvel multiverse, and now AppleTV+ has his chance with Godzilla and the Titans multiversewhich they call, very aptly, monsterverse or monsterverse.
Japanese giant monster movies date back to the 50’s of the last century, have merged with King Kong to give rise to a monstroverse that promises numerous films and series.
The idea behind the monstroverse is that a series of immense monsters, Godzilla and the Titans, hide inside the Earth and they can surface at any time.
The new franchise though inspired by Japanese Toho films of the last century, is based on the modern movies: Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). Also in the new anime Skull Island.
The new live-action series on Apple TV + is a continuation of these films. As he explainsto press release Apple, this is their argument:
“Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that swept through San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the series explores one family’s journey to uncover their buried secrets and a legacy that links them to the secret organization known as monarch“.
Therefore, in addition to the inevitable huge monster fights, the series will also focus on human drama of the family that investigates the Titans.
This new series, which has no name yet is produced by Legendary Television and its co-creators are Chris Black (Star Trek: Enterprise, Outcast), who will also serve as showrunner, and Matt Fraction (Hawkeye), along with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures, and Hiro Matsuoka and Takemasa Arita, the executive producers of Toho.
Apple hasn’t offered any further details, so we also don’t know when it will be released. It seems that it is in its initial phase of development.
Just yesterday, Apple TV + also announced a series based on the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, by Pedro Almodóvar.