‘Monarch’ Showrunner Chris Black Inks Overall Deal With Legendary Television

Denise Petski
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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Black is expanding his relationship with Legendary Television. Black, who co-developed and is currently showrunning Season 2 of Legendary’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, has signed a two-year overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, Black will write the pilot for one of the Monarch spin-off series for Legendary and Apple TV+. Apple’s second season pickup of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters was announced in April.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga – spanning three generations – reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.

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Black previously served as executive producer and writer of the Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ series Severance, for which he won two WGA awards and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.  He also served as showrunner and executive producer of Robert Kirkman’s Outcast on Cinemax, and writer on Emmy-winning series such as Mad Men, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Black is repped by WME and Robert Getman at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.

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