Wheel of Time’s Showrunner Might Bring God of War to Amazon Studios

Amazon’s library of online game rights continues to develop additional, with PlayStation’s God of War franchise sliding into its veritable dropfield of future IPs to attract on. And a potential live-action collection based mostly on the favored sport has some large names connected to it.

Deadline reviews that the difference will likely be led by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who completely nailed their adaption of The Expanse, turning a collection of good (however nonetheless solidly mid-record) books into an extremely evocative sci-fi collection that obtained essential acclaim throughout the board. Fergus and Ostby are not any strangers to Hollywood, and even diversifications—they co-wrote the scripts for Children of Men and Iron Man and have been maintaining busy ever since. The commerce additionally notes that Rafe Judkins, the showrunner and government producer for The Wheel of Time (which, like The Expanse, is a Prime Video collection), can also be concerned—as are Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions.

God of War follows Kratos, a Spartan soldier who seeks vengeance in opposition to Ares, the god of battle. As the installments proceed (there are seven to date, with an eighth introduced for launch later this 12 months), Kratos turns into the god of battle himself, and makes an attempt to vary his destiny and people of the soldiers who worship him. Amazon’s present slate of online game diversifications additionally contains collection based mostly on Fallout and Mass Effect; the streamer additionally lately entered right into a first-look deal with dj2 Entertainment, which has labored on award-winning video games like It Takes Two, Life Is Strange, Tomb Raider, and Sonic.

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