Sony’s been doing a good job adapting its flagship franchises into TV shows and movies, with the likes of The Last of Us, Twisted Metal, and Gran Turismo all doing decently. But recently it hit a snag with Netflix’s take on Horizon, and now Deadline is reported that it’s being forced to start from scratch with its God of War series, planned for Amazon Prime.
According to the site, showrunner Rafe Judkins has quit the project, alongside executive producers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus. Multiple scripts had been completed, but it’s now expected the show will head in a different creative direction.
Amazon still values this project highly, and so it plans to work with Sony to hire a new writer’s room for the release. Of course, all this means it’s probably years away, as it’ll need to recruit fresh personnel and settle on a script before it can even begin to think about casting.
Much like with Horizon, we’re still not quite sure how God of War will work as a TV show. From our perspective, this sounds like an extremely expensive proposition, which will require a lot of CG to match up to the source material. We also have our reservations about who could actually play Kratos – he’s a man mountain, and always looks a little strange in live action.
[source deadline.com]
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I agree, god of war is all about big set pieces. While that makes it sound like the ideal TV show/movie, it'll surely be an expensive one.
I would rather they take their time instead of rushing it and coming out with a snooze fest of a show.
Last of us was great and I was pleasantly surprised with Twisted metal.
I know TLOU is getting a season 2 so I hope TM gets one as well 🙏 Still need to watch GT
Like Horizon, I'd rather see them return to the drawing board and make it an animated show. A God of War game with the art style of Castlevania or Arcane would be cool.
Shows they're not rushing it as a cash grab. Take your time and do it right.
@RawnDawn twisted metal season 2 was already confirmed believe it's already filmed
Vikings Valhalla just finished. Yes it was absolute dogsh*t but I’m all Vikinged out. It was the new zombies for a while there.
Not everything has to be a stupid TV show.
@CVCubbington Don't worry, this should be a pretty intelligent TV show.
@HotGoomba I'd use a lot of words to describe God of War, but intelligent isn't one of them. Lonely, emotionally shut off dad verbally abusing his son in the process of learning to show affection while chopping monsters in half isn't what I would call intelligent. It could be awesome, don't get me wrong, but probably not a smart watch.
@HotGoomba I knew someone would say something like this if I didn’t rephrase
Oh God, please give it to people who are passionate about the games and characters, I don't want to see a fate like the Witcher TV series!
Just leave it and give us another game 👍
would be better if they did the greek version and also in an animated style like someone else mentioned. but of course they’re gonna go with the revisionist version with the annoying kid instead
@nomither6 I know people love it but I still think Norse was the least interesting possible way to use a Greek god.
@HotGoomba " a pretty intelligent TV show."
Isn't that like saying "burning ice"
@Mikey856 the correct answer👍👌
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