God of War TV Show Coming to Amazon From Wheel of Time Writer

Gods will probably be killed on Prime Video. That’s the place Kratos and Atreus, the celebrities of the favored God of War online game franchise, will quickly dangle their weapons as Sony and Amazon have introduced a live-action TV present primarily based on the sequence is on the best way. The information was first teased again in March however now it’s official.

“The God of War is a compelling, character-driven franchise that we believe will captivate our global customers as much with its expansive and immersive worlds as its rich storytelling,” Vernon Sanders, head of world tv at Amazon Studios, mentioned in a press launch. “We are honored to share in the adventure of exploring the God of War mythology in such a momentous way with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Santa Monica Studio.”

As beforehand reported, Rafe Judkins (The Wheel of Time) will swing the Blades of Chaos as showrunner together with Children of Men writers (and Expanse TV sequence creators) Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who’ll each produce and write. There’s no phrase on casting simply but however let the debates start.

“We are so proud and excited to be working with our friends at Amazon Studios and our partners at PlayStation Productions to adapt this beautiful and heartbreaking game into a premium live-action series,” Katherine Pope, president of Sony Pictures Television Studios mentioned. “Rafe, Mark, and Hawk are crafting a transportive series that charts a path through the ancient mythological journey of Kratos.”

Amazon’s press launch doesn’t discuss story both, but it surely does describe the plot of the series’ 2018 reboot, which reimagined the characters and tales from earlier entries into the franchise. In that sport, and by extension probably the sequence, the violent, bald, God-killing Kratos travels along with his younger son Atreus to position the stays of their spouse and mom. Along the best way, they battle epic, mythic creatures and uncover extra about their fates and the way forward for all of the realms.

Fans have rightfully discovered to change into doubtful of big-budget online game remakes reminiscent of this. However, that was largely when these tales had been being informed in a two-hour film. That there may be now the choice to inform these tales over a number of hours—as we’ll quickly see in The Last of Us and Fallout—might be simply the factor to seize God of War’s emotion and humanity, in addition to its wild motion and violence.

No timeline has been set on God of War however one would suppose someday in 2024 is an efficient guess.

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