News culture God of War: a series would be in the pipes at a streaming giant!
In recent months, projects to adapt video games on the small screen have multiplied and the recent bomb dropped by Deadline does not say the opposite: Amazon Studios would have approached Sony and PlayStation to adapt the God of War license.
Summary
- Amazon Studios takes on the God of War
- Amazon has fangs on video games
Amazon Studios takes on the God of War
God of War (2018)
Always very well informed, Deadline reported yesterday that another cult video game franchise would have caught the attention of Amazon Studios since it would be God of War. In an article published yesterday, deputy editor Nellie Andreeva explains that this television series would be the result of a collaboration between Mark Fergus (Children of Men, Iron Man), Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man), Rafe Judkins (producer of The Wheel of Time, Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D) and of course Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions who have the last word on all television adaptations from PlayStation games. Of course, such a project seems embryonic and many details are missing. For example, what will be the story displayed on the screen?
God of War is a franchise that debuted in 2005 and has since released eight episodes including seven on PlayStation consoles. The license focuses on Kratos, an ancient Spartan warrior, wanting revenge on Ares and who himself becomes the God of War. She first focuses on Greek mythology in games beat’em upthen moves on to Norse mythology with the last God of War released in 2018. The latter also changes the placement of the camera (behind the shoulder of the character) and is closer to a cinema production. Amazon Studios might therefore be inspired by the latter (which won the award for best game of the year in 2018 and a 20/20 on JV) which offers to discover the paternity of Kratos with his son Atreus.
Amazon has fangs on video games
Mass Effect.
In any case, this new project mentioned by Deadline is not the first related to video games. At the end of 2021, it was still Deadline who indicated that Amazon Studios had approached Electronic Arts to adapt the film into a television series. space opera Mass Effect. The project is also embryonic there even if we know that Henry Cavill (The Witcher) had shown enthusiasm for the games and would ”love to discuss it” with Amazon. Still in the bosom of Amazon Studios and that of the video game, it is the television adaptation of Fallout. The latter, formalized in good and due form and teased in 2020, mobilizes a large team with former Tomb Raider (2018), Westworld or even The Office”.
Amazon Studios seems to have long teeth, and it has to be because its direct competitors are also appropriating cult video game licenses to make adaptations. Series Halo will soon air on Paramount+ while HBO plans to release, not before 2023, its television series adapted from the game The Last of Us. For its part, Netflix has already done very well with The Witcher (even if the latter originated from the book, but still) and its animated adaptations of Castlevania and Arcane. In any case, video game fans won’t have anything to get bored of in the months to come.
Source : Deadline
By chatmhgWriting jeuxvideo.com
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