'God of War' TV Series Adaptation Eyed By Prime Video

According to Deadline, Prime Video is turning PlayStation's mythology-themed game franchise God of War into a live-action TV series. From the report: I hear the series adaptation comes from The Expanse creators/executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and The Wheel of Time executive producer/showrunner Rafe Judkins as well as Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions, which collaborate on all TV series based on PlayStation games. This would mark the latest big deal for a TV series based on a popular video game title in a red-hot streaming marketplace for gaming IP. Peacock just landed another SPT/PlayStation property, Twisted Metal, with a series order and Anthony Mackie starring. HBO has coming up the high-profile PlayStation game-based series The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Netflix has a Resident Evil TV series in the works, while Paramount+ is about to debut Halo.
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The God of War franchise from Sony's Santa Monica Studio spans a total of seven games across four PlayStation consoles. The action game series launched in 2005 on the PlayStation 2, with the first God of War. At the center is ex-Spartan warrior Kratos and his perilous journey to exact revenge on the Ares, the Greek God of War, after killing his loved ones under the deity's influence. After becoming the ruthless God of War himself, Kratos finds himself constantly looking for a chance to change his fate. Following several titles on various PlayStation consoles including the PS3 and the handheld PSP, Santa Monica Studio brought new life to the franchise with the 2018 game on the PlayStation 4. In it, Kratos comes to the Norse wilds where he gets a second chance at fatherhood with his son Atreus. The installment a slew of honors at the 2018 Game Awards, including Game of the Year. An eighth God of War installment, God of War: Ragnorok, is in the works for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 and is set to drop this year.

Nick Cage?

[GenuineCube]

Oh wait....so it's not God of War the Nicholas Cage movie? Man, I love that movie.

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[GenuineCube]

NVM! It's Lord of War. Stupid Nicholas Cage confusing me!

I stopped

[RitchCraft]

... caring about video game adaptations of movies and TV shows when the movie DOOM was made. Man that was a huge let down. I wish them luck but I'm not holding my breath. I might be interested in a Duke Nukem movie but can't wait 20 years for the release only to be let down once again.

Re: I stopped

[SirSpanksALot]

Detective Pikachu and Sonic were both pretty fun.

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[gweihir]

... caring about video game adaptations of movies and TV shows when the movie DOOM was made. Man that was a huge let down. I wish them luck but I'm not holding my breath. I might be interested in a Duke Nukem movie but can't wait 20 years for the release only to be let down once again.

Duke Nukem? Maybe they could make a porno. Amazon would probably fuck that up as well though.

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[Deaddy]

God of war basically already went the commercialization route, as the gameplay incentivising fun and good play in the first games moved to a long dragged cut scene with some button pushing inbetween in the latest part, where even simplest jumps are scripted. I don't think I could better describe it than underthemayo on his youtube channel, where he discusses the gameplay differences between the early games and the newest one in great detail.

And in some way it worked, as clearly, the game as piece of art is

Another thing for them to ruin...

[gweihir]

Unless it is not any good already?

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[PJ6]

Unless it is not any good already?

Just watch an all cutscenes video from the latest GoW on YouTube. I had the same reaction to that as when I saw LoL "awaken" - I was like, these people need to make movies.

Incidentally (not that I play League) the LoL people did make a series called Arcane, and it's effing amazing.

Netflix/Prime seem to be willing to take more risks, so there's a good chance we might get another surprise.

Re: Another thing for them to ruin...

[Anonymouse 2]

"...the LoL people did make a series called Arcane, and it's effing amazing." LoLs story and lore were pretty open. They could go in almost any direction and not have a significant portion of the dedicated fan base disgruntled. God of war's story has already been told through the games. If they go ahead with the project, it's virtually guaranteed they're going to alienate some portion of the fan base with either not telling the story closely enough, or veering off the original story too much. And if th

Huh?

[DarkRookie2]

Why is this getting a show? What is a show going to show us that the games haven't.
Is he going to murder his family and Ares harder?

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[DarkRookie2]

And before someone says something, I know that revenge movies are a thing and can be pretty great. John Wick is awesome.
Its that I don't see how a TV show is going to give us more than what the games do. It isn't going to be as violent as the games, so whats the point.