God of War TV Series Has Reportedly Been Rebooted - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 January 2025 / 2,972 Views
The God of War TV series in development by Sony Pictures TV and Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly being rebooted, according to Deadline.
The report states showrunner and executive producer Rafe Judkins, as well as executive producer Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus, have left the TV series after completing several scripts for the first season.
Sony Pictures TV and Amazon MGM Studios apparently wanted to move in a different direction even as one source claims the scripts were praised by Sony and Amazon.
The new plan is to hire a new writing team for the series that remains important for Amazon, especially following the success of another TV series based off a video game IP - Fallout.
The God of War TV series was greenlit back in December 2022. At the time the series was going to follow the events of 2018's God of War game.
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"...that remains important for Amazon, especially following the success of another TV series based off a video game IP - Fallout."
Please for the love of goodness... do it justice and follow the games and lore of it. Don't go rewriteing things because you feel the story needs improvements or such.
lmao exactly! They turned her, from a smart women thats a fantastic shot with guns, into some melee brawler, idiot that weeps and cries all the time, and is now lesbian (wasn't before). And her side kick went from straigt to gay as well. The games turned their back on Tomb Raiding as well.... its in the NAME... its odd to say the least. She isn't supposed to be a assasin, walking ball of death.... or a weeping lesbian.
Awesome. I just finished ragnarok dlc, was great
Maybe this is a good change? You know, from woke to normal? Oh, lord, they are going to fuck this up, aren't they?
its good that they want to get it right netflix would of just said YES reason most there shows are trash
New GoW isnt really my thing but if they want the show to be good they should drop the "live action" and give the show to the guys that either did Arcane or Castlevania on Netflix
I tend to agree. Seems very hard to pull something like this off. With that said Sony has been doing great with their games to TVmovie so far so maybe they know what they are doing.
For sure... I'd love to see it done well but I would much rather something that is closer to a guarantee lol
Why animation? We've already had great shows like Fallout, and The Last of Us. So, I don't really think it has to be animated to be good...
TV series based on realism (to a point) vs a series based on mythical. In many cases a mythical ones work better as animation, if they go for old school GoW, animation might be the better choice due to it's violence.
Sure I could agree to a certain extent, I really want a Conan the Barbarian animated series, however, it would also be nice if they could prove GoW doesn't need to be animated and is very successful as a live action.
The LoU and Fallout don't really rely on near superhero level of ability. I never finished 2018 or the sequel but in all the original games Kratos does some wild feats of strength that would very expensive to shoot and still risk looking corny af
Buy hey... I'd love to be wrong on this :)
I see what you're saying. I think a lot will also hinge on who is hired to play Kratos. Isn't the show just based on the 2018 GoW game?
Exactly imagine trying to have that Giant snake in live action? That's not cheap. Could be we get something like the witcher where parts like that look cheap but overall it's a good story and well done.
Better hope they put a decent budget into the CGI...
People always wanted god of war as a movie and not a tv show. a series based so much around spectacle needs more than what a live action tv budget can provide.
But with a movie, theyre going to have condense the entire 2018 game into a 2 hour movie.. a tv show allows to flesh it out way more. Idk, a movie sounds like an awful idea to me, I personally probably wouldn't even bother with if it was a movie.
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