How Many Monsterverse Movies Are There?

There are five Monsterverse movies, all released in theaters between 2014 and 2024. One live action TV series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, adds two seasons to the same continuity. The five films are the whole main saga so far, and there are no spin-off films. The Monsterverse movies hub has the full grid with posters and release dates.

The five Monsterverse films, in release order, are Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). Each one has its own page with cast, plot and its place in the story.

Godzilla (2014), directed by Gareth Edwards, opened in US theaters on May 16, 2014. It begins with a 1999 disaster at the Janjira nuclear plant in Japan, then jumps fifteen years to Ford Brody, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a naval bomb disposal officer who is pulled back toward the quarantine zone by his father, Joe Brody, played by Bryan Cranston.

Kong: Skull Island (2017), directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, opened in US theaters on March 10, 2017. The story is set in 1973, when Bill Randa of the secret agency Monarch persuades the government to fund a survey of a newly found island, with Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson and John Goodman in the lead roles.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), directed by Michael Dougherty, opened in US theaters on May 31, 2019. Five years after the Titans were revealed, the scientist Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) and her daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) watch a new Mothra hatch, and Kyle Chandler plays Mark Russell, Emma's estranged husband.

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), directed by Adam Wingard, opened in US theaters on March 31, 2021. Kong lives under Monarch's watch inside a large dome on Skull Island, close to Jia, a young deaf orphan played by Kaylee Hottle, while Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry lead the human cast.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), also directed by Adam Wingard, opened in US theaters on March 29, 2024. Kong is searching Hollow Earth for others of his kind, Godzilla patrols the surface, and Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens and Kaylee Hottle carry the human story.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a live action TV series set in the same continuity as the films, but it is counted as a series, not a movie. It comes from Legendary Entertainment and streams on Apple TV+. Toho, which owns Godzilla, licensed the character to Legendary for the show.

Season 1 premiered on November 17, 2023 and ran for 10 episodes until January 12, 2024. Season 2 premiered on February 27, 2026 and ran for 10 episodes until May 1, 2026. Chris Black and Matt Fraction are the co-creators, and Black was the showrunner. The cast includes Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and John Goodman, while Wyatt Russell plays the young Lee Shaw and Kurt Russell plays Lee Shaw, in a story that runs across the 1950s and about fifty years later.

The show follows two siblings who chase their father's trail and find how deeply their family is tied to Monarch. Bill Randa links it to Kong: Skull Island (2017), since John Goodman played the character in that film and returns as the older Randa in season 1. Season 3 is not confirmed. TVLine reported on October 29, 2026 that Apple had not formally renewed the show and that talks were reportedly under way, so that stays a report and not a decision. The full story of the series is covered in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

The next Monsterverse movie is Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, which Legendary Entertainment lists for a US release on March 26, 2027, with Warner Bros. distributing. Grant Sputore directs from a script by Dave Callaham, and filming wrapped in 2025, so the film is now in post production. No UK or AU date has been found yet. Once it opens, it becomes the sixth film in the series, and the status is tracked at Godzilla x Kong: Supernova until then.

No, the Monsterverse has five films and one TV series, not 40. Toho owns Godzilla and licensed the character to Legendary, and the Monsterverse counts only Legendary's films and series, so Toho's own Godzilla films sit outside it. For the Hollywood Godzilla and Kong films, the five above are the complete set.

The simplest way to watch the Monsterverse in order is release order, which runs from Godzilla (2014) through to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). Story order puts Kong: Skull Island (1973) first, then follows release order for the other four films. Wikipedia places season 1 of Monarch in 2014 to 2015 and season 2 in 2017, which matters for anyone fitting the series into a rewatch. Both lists are set out in Monsterverse movies in order, and the Monsterverse timeline covers the story beat by beat.