Amazon Prime Video is developing a film adaptation of the God of War series of games, with Ronald D. Moore, known for his work on the Star Trek franchise, serving as showrunner. The series has already received a two-season order: the film will tell the Scandinavian part of the story of Kratos and Atreus, presented in the 2018 game.
The focus, like the original Sony story, will be on the relationship between the god of war and his son, touching on their journey through the mythological world. Despite creative differences in 2024 and the departure of Rafe Judkins (Uncharted, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Hawk Ostby (Iron Man), the project was handed over to a new showrunner, which helped the workflow get back on track. Now, screenwriter Cory Barlog and other renowned specialists are working on the first season.
At the moment it is known that the filming will not begin before 2026, despite Amazon's confidence in the project's success. The premiere date has not yet been announced, but it is expected to be at least 2027-2028. The creators promise not just to transfer the game to the screen, but to rethink it with an emphasis on the plot and character development.
There are three sub-types of people who absorb any project (be it a movie, TV series, book or game):
1) Those who like to watch.
They were just sitting at work, talking nonsense, and then they were told about The Witcher/Dark/Squid Game. Or GTA. They don't have an opinion of their own and watch/play it as a backdrop to life. And life is also a backdrop, but it's unclear why.
2) Those who love to feel.
They see and understand the context and are simply happy if the film or game is of good quality. And they forget it after watching if the quality is poor.
3) Those who like to reread.
They can write a 400,000 word essay on why Amazon's Rings of Power are crap, but they never use arguments like "unrealistic black Afro-Elves," "complete bullshit," or "delicious goyslop" because they're afraid of confrontation.
Regarding God of War... it was a very good beat-em-up series, 20 years ago on PlayStation 2. But the last two games were much worse, the second of which deserves to be labeled a "goy slop" by the Paris Chamber of Weights and Measures.
Do you believe that Amazon Prime, which is a weird Copro-Midas even more than Netflix (everything they touch, even The Wheel of Time and Tolkien, turns to sh*t), that they can make a valuable series?
Amazon Prime has had a hand in The Boys, Invincible, Fallout, and other high-profile projects. Considering Sony's reputational losses, it's safe to assume they won't let anything go wrong with Kratos.
Well, yes. But the first one (The Boys) is a parody of the tired superhero genre, Unbreakable is the superhero genre, and Fallout is a series based on a game where even artificial intelligence could write anything and it would be popular.
But Fallout has a very good and respected cast, and that's where they excel.
In general, even a series where a boring person sat and calculated his taxes for the financial year somewhere in Arizona would be interesting and not bad, even if nothing happened.
Because now, thanks to the new reality (TradeMark/tm), the perfect episode of any Amazon Original/Netflix series is:
1) The first 20 minutes, two unpleasant and unkempt fat bearded men (Canadian lumberjacks) have sex with each other.*
2) For the remaining 40 minutes, a West African woman from Senegal with a buzz cut, despite a London accent, looks at the camera and, without changing intonation, shouts, "Slavery is because of you! Let's make George Floyd a Saint!!! Slavery is because of you! Let's make George Floyd a Saint!!!" and repeats these two phrases ad infinitum.
*(I condemn)
Let's say in Great Britain you can't even say that you didn't like something, not just criticize it.
"What, you didn't like it? What are you, a racist and a homophobe??"
That's why I love imported series from Korea and Japan (a little from South America, but their cinematography is still quite behind the times; even here in Rus' we make Night Watch, Solaris, Battleship Potemkin, and we film in space, and there's something to be proud of... but they have Ciudad de Deuce and nothing else legendary... enough for the whole continent in a hundred years).
After all, such trends have not yet reached Korea and Japan.