‘God of War’ TV Series a Go at Amazon

'Wheel of Time' showrunner Rafe Judkins and 'The Expanse' creators Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are adapting the award-winning PlayStation game.

[darthv72]

HBO going to have Last of Us and Amazon gets God of War. Now all we need is Horizon and Gears of War to add to the mix.

[Alexious]

Amazon also has Fallout. Netflix has Horizon and BioShock.

[myfathersbastard]

I have serious doubts Horizon can be done properly on a TV scale budget. I feel for it to be done properly, the whole first game should be a trilogy of films. All the locations, machines and stuff that happens can’t be condensed into a single film in my opinion. Def not on a TV budget. Unless they’re gonna go full Amazon and give it a crazy per episode budget.

[Tacoboto]

Netflix also has/will have Gears of War - both an animated series and a live-action film

[VenomUK]

This needs a massive budget to do it justice. And much as the father son dynamic is great the Greek setting and pantheon is richer and more exciting to me.

[lodossrage]

@Darth72

Sony is making Horizon for Netflx and Twisted Metal for Peacock

[darthv72]

Nice. I just read about Horizon coming to Netflix. didn't know Peacock is getting Twisted Metal.

[darthv72]

okay... just to update. Here are the ones known.
Paramount+: Halo
Netflix: Horizon & Gears of War
Peacock: Twisted Metal
HBO: Last of Us
Amazon: God of War & Fallout

What other streaming services will be getting game related shows? And I dont count RE on Netflix as that was in name only. I'd think AMC+ would get a Death Stranding or Red Dead.

[lodossrage]

Well not tv shows

But Jak and Daxter, Gravity Rush, and Days Gone are getting movies

[dumahim]

Gran Turismo is in the works too. I thought it was going to be on Apple, but can't find the info right now.

[ChubbyBlade]

Halo was halo in name only. It was not halo

[Noskypeno]

Yeah Halo is like those comic book or James Bond movies that get rebooted every few years, and the previous movies have little to do with the current generation. If done right, it doesn't matter if they get every little detail right as long as it's enjoyable and was made with passion. While it's not the greatest show, it has it's moments of potential, and maybe the second season can be where it picks up. For those that nitpick it's terrible cgi, many of the current Marvel movies with double the budget have cringeworthy cgi as well. There's not many shows that have great cgi.

[richardmmorales]

Ghost of Tsushima is getting a movie too.
Same Director from John Wick 4 is the Director for Ghost of Tsushima movie.

[Ashunderfire86]

Horizon is on Netflix and I am nervous about that one after the disaster that was Resident Evil. But Lance Riddick was in Horizon as a voice actor. He will do better in the live action version of the game.

[dumahim]

Even though he plays mostly the same character a lot, he's so damn good at it.

[CorndogBurglar]

I wouldn't get excited about any projects. Halo was complete garbage. Resident Evil on Netflix was some of the worst BS I've ever attempted to watch.

Hollywood is too woke these days. And everyone wants to put their own spin on things. I really have no faith in any of it. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised with one or two of them.

[Ashunderfire86]

#CorndogBurglar

You will definitely like what they are doing with The Last of Us on HBO MAX. Neil Druckmann game director is working with the showrunner to get the story right like the game. After hearing the director talk about how sad he was about one of the scenes, we can expect a really good drama for this show.

Horizon Zero Dawn is going to be an expensive one, because of the Machine designs for the show. I am nervous on who is going to play Aloy, There is that one lady from Game of Throne's married to Jon Snow in real life, that looks just like Aloy and great at shooting arrows. Then there is Jennifer Lawrence which I don't mind, but she is very expensive too and already establish with Hunger Games. Whoever this actress is she definitely will most likely be someone from Europe to fit this role.

[CorndogBurglar]

I wouldn't get too excited about any of these projects. As much as I want them all to be good, I won't let myself get disappointed again like I did with Halo.

Low expectations is key. With Hollywood being so woke these days I just can't imagine any of this stuff being good. But that's a good thing, because if any of them do turn out good it will be a pleasant surprise.

[Ashunderfire86]

Yup Wokeness in Hollyweird is rampant in their movies and shows. Too many sequels that end up being a pass the touch movie, and the new Star Wars trilogy started that crap. Look at what they did to my man David Arquette from Scream 5? He was the Han Solo of Scream movies for years, and you pretty much know what happen lol!!! From a girl half his size smh.

[Flewid638]

Horizon would actually be a dope ass show.

[bangoskank]

A live-action Kratos is going to look sick!. Not. Whoever plays Kratos better be jacked as shit or this will immediately not work.

[darthv72]

Bill Goldberg... maybe?

[bangoskank]

if they are going the dad Kratos route we need someone who can deliver dramatic lines without making them laughable or cringe inducing.

[LOGICWINS]

I want Tom Hardy!

[SullysCigar]

I'm sure you do..

Who do you think should play Kratos?

[LOGICWINS]

^^ 😆

[CR7JUVE1897]

Jason Momoa

[darthv72]

Not sure he'd want to cut off his hair. It grows back but if rumors of him being cast as Lobo are true... he's going to need that.

[Tacoboto]

Sorry, Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland again, as Kratos and Atreus

[Luc20]

I don't think you're wrong 😂

[Chriswheeler22]

And mark just plays mark.

[Knushwood Butt]

Haha

I recently watched that after avoiding it because I didn't want it to be terrible, and it was actually pretty entertaining. Certainly worth my time on a sub that I've already paid for.

Flip side being I walked out of RRR at the theater. The first time I have ever done that.

[ClayRules2012]

😂oh please no. It was bad enough seeing them as themselves “trying” to portray Nate and Sully, them as Kratos/Mark and Atreus/Tom would be some awful parody lol.

[crazyCoconuts]

Will Ferrell

[Snookies12]

Julius Bjornsson AKA The Mountain, lol.

[1Victor]

I want a skinny cratos before he sold his soul to Ares and become more buffed and by the 2nd season be all bulked up like the rock when he started vs 2 -3 years later

[u-dragon27]

Either James Hollingshead (dont know about his acting skills though) or Olivier Richters.

[dumahim]

Keira Knightly. She has range.

[bangoskank]

Only two people I could see pulling it off are Momoa or Hugh Jackman. See Hugh Jackman bald and with beard in Les Miserables. The resemblance is crazy except Jackman is a bit longer and leaner.

[BrainSyphoned]

Yes, Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time also looked sick.

[Noskypeno]

Gerard Butler was rumored to play the role, he sounds like him and kind of looks like him, just could pack a few more pounds, but he's already ripped so he could just be a more lean version of Kratos.

[Ashunderfire86]

That this is Spartaaa is giving me Kratos vibes! Gerard Butler is my number one pick for sure.

[Ashunderfire86]

I wanted that to be Gerard Butler for a long time now, especially after 300! "This is Spartaaa." He could of said," I am Kratos!!!!" Before he start his finisher lol!!!!

[bangoskank]

Gerard Butler can't get back into the same shape he was in for 300. Apparently he worked himself too hard and has really bad tendinosis.

[Imalwaysright]

Can't wait to see how far they'll go in order to make it for the "modern audiences"

[crazyCoconuts]

"Come here, boy.....er ..can I say that?"
CUT!!

[LOGICWINS]

Judging from that orgy episode on The Boys, I don't expect Kratos' story to be censored in any way by Amazon. If there IS any censorship, it'll be from Sony.

[dumahim]

Or the termite scene from the first episode of the season.

[Necro-Pyro]

Censorship from Sony? Yeah, right. It was Sony that built that expensive giant penis in termite episode.

[Dirty_Lemons]

I enjoyed it don't get me wrong, but the Herogasm story in The Boys was nowhere near as graphic as I was expecting. Termite jumping down that guys urethra though... 👀

[goldwyncq]

With how colloquial the dialogue is for most of the characters in Ragnarok, I'd say it's already made with modern audiences in mind.

[Machina]

Nothing is safe from The Message nowadays.

[Christopher]

Quick, let's get offended before we even have a reason to be offended!

[Imalwaysright]

Says the guy that got offended.

[Christopher]

https://media4.giphy.com/me...

[yellowgerbil]

So the person that completely ruined Wheel of Time is off to ruin another franchise. Great.

[MadLad]

Amazon has yet to show they can do anything well, outside of hosting a popular storefront.

[rpvenom]

The Boys and Tomorrow War were pretty good in my opinion.. but other than that.. not much else going on over there

[dumahim]

How dare you. Bosch is a great show. There's also The Grand Tour, Clarkson's Farm and James May: Our Man in Japan.

[MadLad]

@rpv

I'll give you The Boys.
That's actually one of my favorite shows.

I think it says a lot that I even forget that that's actually from Amazon.

[Knushwood Butt]

I quite like Bosch actually and have watched them all. Hope his daughter gets less screen time in the next series, if there is one.

[TheKingKratos]

Invincible
The Boys
Tomorrow war
Are amazing in my opinion

[Dirty_Lemons]

....Mr Robot...

[Vx_]

Why the F Amazon??? Lol this will be epic fail look how they turned Lord of the rings and the wheel of time into some w0ke crap!!! GoW is the total opposite of Amazon code.. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[CrimsonWing69]

I got a baaaaad feeling…

[Vengeance1138]

So im guessing the show will be completely about Atreus coming out to Kratos as some kinda bi or gay or space alien thing? And Kratos will be some bumbling fool who can't get anything right and Freya will actually be the series main hero who has to always save Kratos.

[ChubbyBlade]

Get a new joke. This shits been played out for over a decade.

[Inverno]

This is going to suck and we all know it. If HBO does a good job with The Last of Us then I want HBO doing all shows related to games cause Amazon and Netflix so far have either been inconsistent or just straight up horrible with their live action adaptations.

[Vengeance1138]

HBO already ruined The Last of Us show, its ultra WOKE, they race swapped Joel's daughter that dies in the very beginning of the game to be black. Also she appears in more than 1 episode despite dying within the first 10min of the game.

[Inverno]

I fail to see how 1 race swap will ruin the show. Race swaps almost always hace no negative effect on a show since the character will be the same regardless, unless the writing is horrible. I also fail to see how expanding Sarah also ruins the show, especially since if any character deserves to have more time it would be Sarah. Y'all need to learn to chose when to use the woke excuse cause it's gotten old.

[Vengeance1138]

@Inverno, you definitely fail, thats true.
Race swaps are at their core, racist. Why do you think they do it? Because white skin color bad! evil! can't have thaaaat. It also would change Joel's wife in the lore to be black in order for his daughter to be.
Appearing in over 1 episode in the show, unless its a flashback would greatly ruin the impact the whole scene had in the game.
You need to understand and learn when history is being changed in front of your eyes to present a picture of white skin color = evil. You want a new black girl, ok! Make a brand new character.

As the saying goes, "Without respect, we REJECT!" and changing the character like that is major disrespect.

[dumahim]

She's like 75% white and light skinned. Get over it.

[Inverno]

Sarah's death would not lose any impact if she was more fleshed out. On the contrary, developing her further would only make losing the character that much more impactful. Bruh chill out, you've gone in the complete direction of what I originally said. I care more about the writing itself, I couldn't care less if a character was made black. My point was looking at previous adaptation made by Amazon and Netflix we see that what has ruined them are the writers purposely going against the source, not the inclusion of different coloured skin character. It ain't that deep.

[ChubbyBlade]

Joel is race swapped too you know…

[FunAndGun]

Damn dude, you cry about everything. You seem so miserable in life.

[Ristul]

Kratos will now identify as a female.

[ClayRules2012]

Ugh, the horror that would be lol.

[H9]

"God Of War Tv Show"

I have no faith in adaptations but oh well

"At Amazon"

Oh no oh no oh no

"Wheel Of Time Showrunner"

My condolences to God Of War Community

[Fonsecap]

So Atreus always being repressed by his father calling him BOY all the time that he will want to be a girl, so we'll have our first transgender character in the series.

[SullysCigar]

Dad of Soy

[banger88]

God of Woke.

[Traecy]

It's probably going to look cheap with no big budget.

[roadkillers]

How the fuck can no one do Mortal Kombat right? Honestly, Sonic is the only decent movie done.

[MrChow666]

They are going to ruin it, Look what they did with Lord of the rings, is going to be Woke of War.

[mudakoshaka]

Don't get your hopes up! Amazon dropped the ball on the Rings of Power, so I don't expect them to make a proper adaptation of God of War.

[ChubbyBlade]

It’s gonna get rings of powered

[GoodGuy09]

Cool. Are they doing greek myth first or at all though?

[ChubbyBlade]

Not touching it

[Flawlessmic]

Yep no Greek mythology :(

Clearly for budget reasons I'd say, between all the gods, Greek monsters and titans I'd say they don't wanna have to pay for all that not to mention the violence of the Greek saga.

It's a dam shame, I'd take kratos Greek mytho over the Norse saga, even better would be to have it all but I guess we can't have everything.

Hopes aren't hight though unfortunantly.

Name with who the hell is gonna play kratos

[BrainSyphoned]

Kratos and Atreus will be non-binary minor attracted lovers.

[Lawsonsinkclear]

I just The Norse saga is already at cinematic quality, the only thing a tv show can do is make live action Kratos look even weaker when getting killed by some random human bandits. https://www.tellculvers.onl...

[gold_drake]

please no Chris Pratt
please no The Rock

someone who can actually act, please.

[AbhishekGIS]

I hope they don't ruin it like LOTR, that was very mid.

[S2Killinit]

Hope they do it justice

[kayoss]

I hope they keep the violence and the gore.

[cnote00]

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s an all female cast

[isalas011981]

So now we are finally tired of Marvel comics and super heroes so now studios are going for the next goldmine….. Movies and shows based off popular video games…. The next big gold rush.

[Vestten]

Great something else for Amazon the ruin.

[Dirty_Lemons]

I'm stoked we are getting all these series, I really think shows like The Witcher proved game adaptations can work (cannot explain how bummed out I am HC isn't returning for the next season).

That said does anyone else feel if any of these shows will be THE game show to watch - not in terms of what is your favourite game but in terms of quality - it will be The Last of Us? HBO have hit after hit over the years: The Wire, Sopranos, Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones, House of Dragon, Pacific, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire - I have no doubt I'm forgetting obvious ones too.

Nevertheless I hope all these shows are successful, if only Resident Evil could have just one genuinely good adaptation...

[ChubbyBlade]

The Witcher show is terrible. It makes a mockery of the books

[ikarodemon]

Will be good as Rings of Power? (Sarcasm)
Amazon dont have good directors and Writers.