"Wyatt Russell, who shares the role of Colonel Lee Shaw with his real-life father, Kurt Russell, is striking off on his own. The yet untitled project will follow his adventures in the '80s, splicing and old-school conflict with the heady sci-fi worldbuilding that brought "Titans" like Godzilla and Kong into the present day. Per the official synopsis, Shaw will go behind enemy lines to stop Soviet forces from unleashing "a horrific new Titan" on U.S. soil."
"Apple's upcoming spinoff also runs the risk of redundancy on another front. Lee Shaw is the ostensible lead of Monarch: the show straddles three periods of history - the 1950s, the early '80s, and eventually the 2010s - and thanks to a wild time travel twist, Shaw appears in each. At first blush, focusing on Young Shaw's clandestine missions in the '80s feels like overkill... in truth, though, this new series will actually fill a curious blind spot in the Monarch timeline."
"How was Shaw, a man born in the 1920s, still so young-looking in 2015? Monarch, fortunately, had an answer: in the '50s, Shaw and his allies discovered the Hollow Earth (or Axis Mundi), a realm below the Earth's crust that exists outside of time. When Shaw enters this realm and exits at a different point, he winds up somehow 30 years in the future, the '80s."
Legendary's Monsterverse is expanding with an untitled spinoff centered on Colonel Lee Shaw in the 1980s. The series follows Shaw infiltrating Soviet lines to prevent the release of a horrific new Titan on U.S. soil. Monarch's timeline already spans the 1950s, early 1980s, and 2010s, with Shaw appearing across eras due to a Hollow Earth (Axis Mundi) anomaly that exists outside of time. Young Shaw's standalone missions will address a blind spot in the Monarch chronology while competing with numerous other 1980s-set sci-fi projects for distinctiveness.
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