{"id":1519,"date":"2026-07-10T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:30:22","slug":"apple-tv-is-expanding-a-2-5-billion-franchise-with-a-new-sci-fi-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV Is Expanding A $2.5 Billion Franchise With A New Sci-Fi Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across five movies, Legendary&#8217;s <em>Monsterverse<\/em> has become a household name among blockbuster sci-fi franchises. Beginning with <em>Godzilla<\/em> in 2014 and continuing through to 2024\u2019s <em>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire<\/em>, the Kaiju-centered cinematic universe has earned more than $2.5 billion at the global box office <em>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/movies\/franchise\/MonsterVerse#tab=summary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Numbers<\/a>)<\/em>. In an era dominated by interconnected multimedia properties, it was only a matter of time before the Monsterverse expanded beyond theaters. That finally happened in 2023 when Apple TV+ debuted <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/monarch-legacy-of-monsters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Monarch: Legacy of Monsters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, bringing Titans to the small screen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across five movies, Legendary&#8217;s Monsterverse has become a household name among blockbuster sci-fi franchises. Beginning with Godzilla in 2014 and continuing through to 2024\u2019s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the Kaiju-centered cinematic universe has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}