Amazon’s Head of Television Vernon Sanders has opened up concerning the upcoming God of War sequence.
Earlier this month, Amazon gave a straight-to-series order to a live-action adaptation of Santa Monica Studio’s God of War video games for its streaming service. Rafe Judkins (The Wheel of Time) has been tapped to function showrunner on the difference, working from scripts by Academy Award nominees Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who’re additionally govt producing. During a current interview about success of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Vernon Sanders teased what followers can anticipate from Judkins, Fergus and Ostby with the God of War sequence.
“We do incredibly well with adaptations, from Invincible to The Boys. I mean, we just covered so many of them, right? And so we know that there’s such a passionate fan base for God of War,” Vernon Sanders advised Collider. “But the thing that we’re always looking for is whether there is a real emotional core, if there’s a real narrative story, and I think that’s part of what makes God of War so special. At the center of it all is this story of fathers and sons, and families, set against this giant epic landscape. So what Rafe and Mark and Hawk have come up with for the first season, and for the series, I think, is both incredibly true to the source material, and also compelling on its own. If you never played the game, you will fall in love with the show and feel very much invited in. So we think it’s going to be huge.”
A three way partnership between between Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios in affiliation with PlayStation Productions, God of War is about to premiere in additional than 240 nations and territories throughout the globe. The announcement got here just a few days after the discharge of Santa Monica Studio’s God of War Ragnarök, the fastest-selling first social gathering launch recreation in PlayStation historical past.
Santa Monica Studio’s artistic director Cory Barlog can be govt producing Amazon’s God of War adaptation alongside Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, Yumi Yang, Roy Lee. Jeff Ketcham serves as a co-executive producer on the mission.
God Of War follows the story of Kratos, a spartan warrior who made a pact with the Greek god of conflict, Ares. Before being killed off by an enemy, Ares gave Kratos the facility of the Blades of Chaos to conquer virtually anybody who stood in his means within the title of the gods. After discovering out that Ares lied to him, main him to kill his personal spouse and daughter, Kratos went on a rampage to enact revenge on all of Olympus.
After realizing that Zeus was his father and needed to kill him as effectively, Kratos ended up butchering him and fleeing to the Nordic area. Santa Monica Studio’s God Of War video games pit Kratos in opposition to Norse foes whereas he journeys to unfold his late new spouse’s ashes together with his son, Atreus.
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