Boy! Sony and Amazon to Start from Scratch on God of War TV Show

Sony’s been doing a good job adapting its flagship franchises into TV shows and movies, with the likes of The Last of Us, Twisted Metal, and Gran Turismo all doing decently. But recently it hit a snag with Netflix’s take on Horizon, and now Deadline is reported that it’s being forced to start from scratch with its God of War series, planned for Amazon Prime.

According to the site, showrunner Rafe Judkins has quit the project, alongside executive producers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus. Multiple scripts had been completed, but it’s now expected the show will head in a different creative direction.

Amazon still values this project highly, and so it plans to work with Sony to hire a new writer’s room for the release. Of course, all this means it’s probably years away, as it’ll need to recruit fresh personnel and settle on a script before it can even begin to think about casting.

Much like with Horizon, we’re still not quite sure how God of War will work as a TV show. From our perspective, this sounds like an extremely expensive proposition, which will require a lot of CG to match up to the source material. We also have our reservations about who could actually play Kratos – he’s a man mountain, and always looks a little strange in live action.

[source deadline.com]