She's taken on the Predator and lived to tell the tale, but now it looks like Prey star Amber Midthunder is moving onto bigger things. And by bigger things, we mean Kaiju sized, Godzilla and Kong and Ion Dragon sized things. That's right, folks — Amber's about to bring (Mid)thunder to the MonsterVerse! As reported by Variety, the Legion and Avatar: The Last Airbender actor is set to play a major part in Season 2 of Legendary and Apple TV+'s big-budget, small-screen blockbuster series Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters.
Details on Midthunder's role are being kept under wraps for the time being, but Variety's reporting does confirm that her character's name is Isabela, that she's "an intelligent and powerful businesswoman,” and that her role in the show is being described as "heavily recurring". What line of business Isabela is in remains to be seen, but after Season 1's shocking climax, in which *SPOILER WARNING* Kurt Russell's Monarch man Lee Shaw seemingly bit the dust to save Keito (Mari Yamamoto), King Kong rocked up looking royally pissed off, and ne'er-do-wells Apex Cybernetics looked to have nabbed Monarch's Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and Tim (Joe Tippet) for their own (probably nefarious) purposes, your guess is as good as ours.
Coming off the back of the suitably ginormous and utterly bananas Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, it'll be interesting to see how Chris Black and Matt Fraction handle the sophomore season of Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, a show which — by design — consciously represents a departure from the more bombastic big-screen creature features in favour of a more human driven story. With Midthunder signed up though, more MonsterVerse spin-offs in the pipeline, and plenty of tantalising threads having been left dangling at the end of Season 1, you can bet we'll be bowing down (well, sitting) for Monarch whenever its second season eventually lands on Apple TV+.