Kurt and Wyatt Russell are both joining Apple’s Godzilla show
The father-son duo have both acquired as-yet-unnamed parts in the TV continuation of Legendary's "Monsterverse"
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Legendary Entertainment’s nigh-obsessive attempts to recreate the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its “Monsterverse” of Godzilla-featuring, and Godzilla-adjacent, movies and TV shows has now hit a new milestone, as Deadline reports that father-son duo Kurt and Wyatt Russell—both veterans of the MCU at this point—have both signed on to the AppleTV+ Monsterverse show that the streamer has been floating for a while now.
As Deadline points out, it has been a long time since Kurt Russell, professional movie star, has done a TV role; his last semi-regular credits on the small screen date all the way back to the 1970s. (He most recently appeared on film while reprising his role as “Mr. Nobody” in F9; he also, we should note, reprised his Marvel role as Ego The Living Planet in a voice role for the What If…? show.) Wyatt Russell is, of course, a much more regular fixture, having starred recently in Lodge 49 and Marvel’s The Falcon And The Winter Soldier; most recently, he co-stars with Andrew Garfield in FX’s Under The Banner Of Heaven.
There’s no word yet on who either Russell will be playing in the Monsterverse show, which, like most of the projects in this little franchise, will focus on “family” as a way to ground the spectacle of the big turtles and moths or whatever duking it out. (If we had to guess, though, it’s not like you shell out for Kurt Russell to not have him play the leader of a mysterious group with nefarious goals, right?) The duo joins a cast that includes Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski.
Apple announced that it was acquiring the Monsterverse show—still untitled—from Legendary back in January, apparently hoping to get a little big-budget spectacle in its library to go with all those thoughtful dramas and comedies. The series is reportedly being co-written by Chris Black and well-known comics writer Matt Fraction.
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One of them needs to play basically Jack Burton and I don’t much care which it is.
100%
Matt Fraction?! Good for him, hope he’s cashing in.
Please don’t bring up Lodge 49 so casually, that’s still a sore spot. 😔Anyway, it’ll be great to see them working together on a project.
I think if I ever rewatch it (and I probably will) I’ll stop at the penultimate episode because that was basically perfect television and seems a nice, natural stop.
I’ll trot out my Lodge 49 non-story: I work at a grocery store close to a studio in LA, and it happens to be Brent Jennings’ local grocery store. I make sure to be the one to help him so I can jibber-jabber about Lodge 49, as well as his many many movie roles (turns out Bill Pullman is a good dude). So Brent and I are kinda pals; he comes through my line if I’m there, we chat, no biggie.
At one point during Lodge 49’s second season, I realized that David Ury AND Sonya Cassidy were also regularly shopping at my store! Ury was pretty surprised to learn that he has fans and they know his stuff.
I tried not to bug Sonya, but we talked a bit, I mainly told her that her co-stars shopped there. She was nice, and kind of dorky in a sweet way. She kind of reminded me of the handful of “All- As” kids at school that happened to be super attractive but were so wrapped up in grades and achievements, they didn’t know how hot they were.
The pre-COVID days were nice like that.
> recreate the success of the Marvel Cinematic UniverseTo be fair, Godzilla has been monster-fight crossover-ing since King Kong vs. Godzilla in 1962, and both Mothra and Rodan had their own solo films before encountering Godzilla in ‘64.
He looks like a Wyatt, doesn’t he?
But can he walk on water?
Kurt needs to play Godzilla and Wyatt will be Baby Godzilla. Otherwise, what’s the point?
The more I hear about this the more excited I get. I really cannot wait for this