It looks like the next video game franchise to make the leap to the screen is God of War, with Deadline reporting that Amazon Prime Video is in talks for a live action TV series!
Deadline’s report notes, “I hear the series adaptation comes from The Expanse creators/executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and The Wheel of Time executive producer/showrunner Rafe Judkins as well as Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions which collaborate on all TV series based on PlayStation games.”
Created by David Jaffe, the God of War video game franchise kicked off back in 2005, with brand new ninth installment God of War Ragnarök coming along later this year.
Wikipedia details, “Based in ancient mythology, the story follows protagonist Kratos, a Spartan warrior and later the God of War, who was tricked into killing his family by his former master, the original Greek god of war Ares. This sets off a series of events that leads to wars with the mythological pantheons. The Greek mythology era of the series sees Kratos follow a path of vengeance due to the machinations of the Olympian gods, while the Norse mythology era, which introduces his son Atreus as a secondary protagonist, shows an older Kratos on a path of redemption, which inadvertently brings the two into conflict with the Norse gods.”
Other video game franchises soon headed to big and small screens include The Last of Us, Fallout, Halo, Twisted Metal, Resident Evil, Mass Effect, and Borderlands.
More on the God of War TV series as we learn it. In the meantime, comment down below and let us know who you’d like to see cast to play the God of War himself, Kratos!