Amazon Prime Video Greenlights God of War TV Series

Starting with the Norse storyline is a giant red flag.

Who will play Kratos? Fingers crossed it's Matt Lucas 🤞

Really a god of war show? Will this be anything like that hurcules show with Kevin sorbo? Just cast the dude from the superbowl ad for ascension to play Kratos!

Did the color scheme change from blue to red because Kratos kills a lot of people?

Jason Momoa as Kratos.

this is good and bad news man… probably better to leave it alone as Amazon is not the one who dearly cares or invests in these series

Amazon being involved is a giant red flag already.

Chris Pratt as Kratos 👌 but yea seems like they want to rush it if they are starting with the Norse story. Unless they do a prequel after the fact.

The fact is God of war 2018 and its sequel would.be nothing without where kratos came from, so a series for me would have to be a origins story, which would be interesting.

I donr think 2018 as a series would would hit the same.

Yep, this is worrisome. Doesn't the game already tell it's own story well enough, not to be butchered by some greedy TV execs?

@bpomber don't think he would shave his head though

What would be great is if each episode there would be a flashback to the Greek saga. I mean people not familiar to the games would be shocked to find out why he's so pale.

Was pleased with this news until I saw that one of the two in charge is the same who oversaw the risibly stupid WoT adaptation earlier this year.

@riceNpea it’s gonna be Ben Stiller. Didn’t you see the commercial? Haha

Well after the rings of power we are all very wary

I'd love to see a return to the Greek era in TV show form but it probably won't happen. Amazon does at least give it the chance to have the budget it needs to succeed but as we all know it takes more than budget to make a great show. We will have to wait and see.

oof amazon, guesss needs some cast announcements before judgment

I'd like it to start with Greek but I have a feeling they could end up doing that as a prequel

HHH would’ve been perfect as Kratos 5-6 years ago.

They need to start with the Greek saga even IF they condense the whole trilogy into 1 season.

I don't understand this obsession with turning games into TV shows. Sony's been obsessed with making games that are interactive movies for a generation and a half now, to praise or contempt of gamers, but now they're taking their games that are meant to be interactive movies and then turning them back into normal non-interactive movies, making the game kind of a redundant alternate reality of the real movie. Why not then make games that are NOT interactive moves, and just base them off the movies rather than making two different cinematic presentations that basically compete with each other?

I know the answer is "money" but there's a certain creative bankruptcy to this approach. Why can't Santa Monica's GoW Norse uncut shakey cam camera presentation stand on its own without becoming live action film of the same story to non-gaming normies? It just seems to defeat the whole point of Sony's niche of cinematically presented narrative video games. It's like releasing a novelized version of a comic book.

Chris Judge may not be the original Kratos, but he's the Norse series Kratos, and an alternate version just debases the character.

@mollock He would’ve looked the part & has had 20+ years of being on TV experience. I’m sure they could’ve coached him into it. Also The Chaperone was decent.

Just a thought but Christopher Judge has stated in the past that he would like to play Kratos in the TV series.
He’d be covered up in ash...I imagine that would cause some controversy.

Jason Mamoa would be a great fit as Kratos does have ‘olive skin’ underneath the layer of ash. Doubt he’d get rid of his hair though & a bald cap would probably just look wrong.

Don't really care about the platform it's on. Doesn't have an impact on the quality. It's all about the creatives in charge. From reports I've seen wheel of time creator is the show runner and the expanse creators will be writers and producers. Also Cory Barlog will be an Executive producer. These are great people to lead the show to success

Still won't crown the show yet, but comparing it to rings of power because it's also on amazon isn't a solid argument to me

It's gonna be worse than what they did to Lord of the rings.

🤔 ok yo sony making 📺 tv series.movies. a lot.im more in to the games.and all those movies and tv series are spread out. Amazon.netflix etc.etc.word up son

Considering The Rings of Power was incredibly and consistently faithful to the source material, this could be alright. It won’t be though, because it’s just a downright stupid premise for anything other than a game.

What's there a bunch of in TV and film right now? Norse Mythology and History

What's there not much of... Greek Mythology

Greek Mythos and Greek History are fantastic. Amazon will paint by numbers this sh** and it will suck so bad.

But it's still good for Sony and the studios to be able to sell their property so easily to all these silly companies now.

HBO is good for adaptions, even Disney are showing to be good with their properties these days. But Netflix and Amazon, I very little faith in those with anything, let alone game adaptions 😬

@Wormwood23 Having read the WoT, I found the show pretty decent. What in particular did you find to be poor?

The only way I’d watch this is if it were the Greek storyline done in the style of the original Clash of the Titans movie with the stop motion animation. Otherwise it’s just another turd on the streaming pile of crap.

Have Olivier Richters (The Dutch Giant) play Kratos, he got the look.

@AdamNovice One’s high fantasy. One’s a power fantasy.

@FatalBubbles
The show wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. I was hoping the 1st season would be based solely on the 1st book. Instead they added their own stuff in and incorporated some elements of the 2nd book in. Simple things omitted like Rand falling off the wall trying to see the False Dragon and landing in the Palace garden and getting to meet the Queen. The rescue of Perrin and Egwene from the Whitecloaks. The act of being Wisdom was never jumping into deadly rapids. Instead they could of had the freaky scene of Rand first seeing the cloaked horserider following him from the start of the book. Where was the area where Perrin was starting to learn about the Wolves. Things that should not have been omitted. But that's my personal opinion. And don't get me started about Perrin suddenly being married, that was just the show trying to make a scene of having his wife get killed which never existed in the 1st place.
They could have made it where each season is followed from each book solely. Apologise if there are spoilers for anyone that have not read WOT, but it's hard to explain the show without references.

@Digit2021 If I’m following, your main complaint is that it didn’t follow the book exactly? If so, that’s an understandable reason. I would prefer that in basically all cases but sadly it never happens.

The Perrin being married part was what stuck out the most to me.

I full expect them to give up before they get to the last book. No way they stick with this for a decade.

it’s what they’ve always wanted with this reimagining and reboot . sony cares more about interactive movies than making video games .

@LightningLeader This is PS, you had to know they wouldn’t let that comment stay.

Just keep it away from whoever made that terrible Lord of the Rings fan fiction. Get David Joffe or Corey Barlog involved to avoid the dispassionate fan fiction route.

@AdamNovice Going from the printed word to a visual medium is a different kind of reaching for a new audience than going from a cinematic medium to another exceedingly similar cinematic medium. It's more understandable in the case of, say, Sonic movies because the games aren't really a cinematic or narrative affair. But the thing the modern Sony tent pole games since PS4 are most known for is making essentially films with interactivity. That in itself is a love or hate thing, but it's what defines the games regardless. A sack boy movie, or returnal movie or such where there's minimal emphasis in game on cinematic narrative, the game is very gamey, would make sense. Tell a new in world story or present cinematically what isn't cinematic in the games, makes some sense. But turning what's already presented as a movie into another movie cloning itself seems so contradictory and dismissive of the actual games as, like the old days, a third rate medium.

FWIW im not a huge fan of the post PS4 era interactive movie games, I prefer the gamey games they made. I like gow3 more than 2018, infamous more than spider man, etc. That's why I like horizon best out of their modern games, it's less interactive movie, more pure game. But if they're going to go the interactive movie game route, making films of those games just doesn't make sense. Why watch the same film with different actors?

If Judge is up to it i say cast him.

I'd like to see someone like Isla Fisher get the chance to play Kratos.

@FatalBubbles
Yep....and I know and understand its way too much to ask for a direct book to screen version. Although it would be fantastic, characters would have so much more depth and emotions with the audience, although there would be some episodes slow but with deep storytelling. Would have been too slow for some, especially of Perrin and Egwene trekking for miles with nothing but camping and having Perrin learn the way of the Wolf with Elyas whom they meet. Books are always better in this regard. Hope they learnt this for the 2nd season.
On topic, very worried about God of War TV series - it would have to be super expensive to make all the CGI look decent.

@SlySnake0407 You're not wrong, certainly, I do agree with that reality. But that still reflects a level of creative bankruptcy. Why make a completely cinematic game thats main feature is it's movie like presentation, (gow 2018 made a big deal of the single uncut take, really showcasing cinema techniques as a highlight) and then just take it and make a roughly identical movie of it that's what the majority of people looking for movie like content actually apparently wanted to begin with? Why not just make the movie in the first place and not make the cinema format game if the majority of people looking for the cinema format would rather watch a traditional movie?

If introducing cinematic gaming as a different expression of film that can be interactive, it should be able to stand on it's own to draw its audience instead of remaking it as a real film for the largest market that wants to view the story. Otherwise there's no real point to games being movie-like, focusing on narrative and presentation, and the game, to that wide audience still is perceived as the second rate version of the movie.

It's not just Sony doing the movie thing obviously, everything from Mario to Halo has a series or film these days, but it just strikes me as strangest with Sony because the whole selling point of the majority of their modern games is that they fuse their film and game know-how into a sort of combined medium. I know I mentioned I haven't been a big fan of that, personally, but I do recognize it as a unique format to Sony games, and "remaking" the games as a "proper" movie accepted by the masses reverts back to the old stereotype that games are not a serious medium.

Although it's also arguable that trying to make games into movies to make them accepted by the masses does the same thing.

Of course maybe they're planning to move away from the movie game thing in the long term with the live service focus, Factions, etc. and then this makes more sense. GT7 is certainly no movie, yet it's getting a movie... I'd welcome that personally, but a lot of people would be disappointed.

Same showrunner as The Wheel of Time. Low expectations.

Given the trend, instead of focusing on Kratos they'll focus on some female character.
Who'll that be?

@brazzios_84 I could see them doing it with flashbacks to Greece, more flashbacks than actually in the GOW (2018).

@Digit2021 I think it will all come down to who plays Kratos. If that doesn’t work, the show is dead.

@NEStalgia you are severely overthinking this.

God of War is a very good and fun game. It sells well and is held in high regard amongst gamers and the gaming industry as a whole.

There are hundreds of millions of people who don't play video games but do watch movies and TV shows. Releasing it as a new medium will have it reach new audiences. People who otherwise would not experience the storytelling will now be able to, in the form of a TV show. On top of that, it will also reach plenty of the same audiences again, in terms of the people who played the game.

Simply put, it's going to make money and the story is now going to reach a wider audience, so why not do it? It's really that simple. Why try to make arguments that there should be less of something for people to enjoy?

Immediate negativity here even though all of you swoon about something as HBO's last of us series, which is just people being horrible to eachother under extreme circumstances, what an original premise.
My only gripe with GoW is that they're maybe moving straight to Norse mythology. Nevertheless, it could turn out really well. Rings of power was good (yes, black characters in fantasy is great and not "immersion breaking") and wheel of time seemed seriously underrated.