How Apple brought Godzilla to the small screen in ‘Monarch’

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Godzilla: The King of Monsters,” VFX supervisor Sean Konrad told The Post. “So the way he looks is canonized in a certain way.

That being said, we have shots where we got closer to his body than we’ve ever gotten,” Konrad explained. “A great example is the dorsal fins – we have a shot where we got up real close up, intimate with them, and [see] like bits of dirt that have gotten stuck in the gaps.

Things like that, to make it feel more real.” As the story unfolds, the sibling’s search for answers leads them to an Army officer named Lee Shaw – with Kurt Russell playing him in the present day, and Kurt’s son, Wyatt Russell, playing him in flashbacks to the ‘50s that show the origins of Monarch, as Lee works with Japanese monster researcher Keiko (Mari Yamamoto), and Bill Randa (Anders Holm, playing a young version of the character first played by John Goodman in “Kong: Skull Island”).Although the series is set between the events of two recent “Godzilla” films, viewers don’t need to have seen them to follow “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” “The undergirding philosophy of a lot of the creature design in the Legendary universe is, you look at the natural world for something interesting, and you embellish on that and create deviations that feel alien and strange,” Konrad revealed. “But you ground it in something real.” “We really want it to feel connected to real world things, and feel plausible in some way, but fantastical as well,” said Konrad, who also worked on the 2014 and 2019 “Godzilla” movies, “Guardians of the Galaxy,” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” He explained that to film sequences with the monsters, they didn’t put a man in a suit and add in effects after.