Amazon Confirms It’s Making A God Of War TV Show - Kotaku

Today, Amazon officially announced its plans to make a caller TV amusement based connected the fashionable God of War games. This confirms a erstwhile study from March that the institution was looking to accommodate the fashionable PlayStation franchise into a streaming series.

Deadline reported successful March that Amazon was successful talks with Sony to accommodate the fashionable crippled franchise into a big-budget streaming TV show. At the clip it was reported that the creators and enforcement producers of The Expanse, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, on with The Wheel of Time’s executive shaper and showrunner, Rafe Judkins, would pb the task with input from Sony and PlayStation. Today Amazon confirmed that study was accurate.

Amazon’s Prime Video Twitter relationship tweeted a elemental message that “God of War is coming” alongside an representation of Kratos and Atreus from the 2018 PS4 game, God of War. The Hollywood Reporter reported further information sourced from Amazon, which aligned with the antecedently reported details from March. Specifically, we present cognize that Judkins volition beryllium the showrunner connected the project, portion Fergus and Ostby volition beryllium writers and enforcement producers. The amusement volition beryllium a collaboration betwixt Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios, and PlayStation Productions.

“God of War is a compelling, character-driven franchise that we judge volition captivate our planetary customers arsenic overmuch with its expansive and immersive worlds arsenic its affluent storytelling,” Vernon Sanders, Amazon Studios’ caput of TV production, said successful a property release. “We are honored to stock successful the escapade of exploring the God of War mythology successful specified a momentous mode with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Santa Monica Studio.”

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No announcements were made contiguous astir specifically erstwhile to expect the amusement oregon who volition prima successful the series. I ideate galore chiseled actors with shaved heads (or who are consenting to shave) person already auditioned for the relation of Kratos, the protagonist of the long-running franchise that started backmost successful 2005 connected the PlayStation 2.

Just past week, the astir caller God of War game—God of War: Ragnarök—won six awards astatine The Game Awards 2022, including Best Narrative and Best Audio Design. The antheral who plays Kratos successful the caller games, Christopher Judge, besides won for champion performance, and ended up giving a code that has already go celebrated online for its magnitude and content.