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Adam Holmes

'Incredible!': Monarch's Matt Shakman Talked To Us About Directing Kurt And Wyatt Russell, And The Name Snake Plissken Came Up

Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell as their respective versions of Lee Shaw in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Both Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell have both built solid acting resumes, the former especially thanks to movies like The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and The Hateful Eight. However, up until recently, the two of them had never acted in the same project. That changes on Friday with the release of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The latest entry in the MonsterVerse canon sees the father/son duo playing the same character in different time periods, and director Matt Shakman reflected to CinemaBlend on how “incredible” it was directing the Russells for the TV show. As a bonus, he threw in a Snake Plissken namedrop.

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