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Anish Vij
Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt are playing the same character in a new Godzilla series by Apple TV+.
Power couple Kurt and Goldie Hawn have four children: Boston Russell, whom Kurt welcomed with ex-wife Season Hubley; Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson from Goldie's previous relationship with Bill Hudson; and Wyatt Russell, the couple's youngest, whom they welcomed together.
37-year-old Wyatt rose to fame after starring in 22 Jump Street (2014) and Table 19 (2017).
And now, the father and son are set to share the screen together in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which follows the aftermath of the battle between Godzilla and the Titans in San Francisco.
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The new 10-part series tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as 'Monarch'.
Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw, taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows.
Wyatt will portray the character in the show's 1950s setting, while his dad will play the older Lee half a century later.
"The dramatic saga — spanning three generations — reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives," Apple said.
Notably, the sci-fi drama is based on Legendary’s Monsterverse.
It will star Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski.
Apple continued: "Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse is an epic entertainment universe of interconnected stories that bring together popular culture’s most titanic forces of nature.
"Witness humanity’s greatest battle for survival as we fight for our world in the face of a catastrophic new reality — the monsters of our myths and legends are real.
"Beginning in 2014 with Godzilla and continuing with 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, the Monsterverse has accumulated close to two billion dollars globally at the box office and is ever-expanding, with the highly anticipated sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."
Apple TV+ are yet to set an official release date, but the father and son duo is something we're all looking forward to seeing.
In March 2021, Kurt became a grandfather after the arrival of Wyatt's son Buddy Prine Russell.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Wyatt said: "It's everything you didn't know it was going to be. I think everything you hope it's gonna be is like a mish-mash in your mind before it really happens and then after it happens, whatever happened before is almost like [it never happened].
"Biologically, I think it does something to your brain where you just erase half your life before you've lived there.
"And now it's about him and your family and trying to balance everything, and time, and new, amazing problems, amazing issues to have."