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[Draugoth]

 

[HTK]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Jennings]

I hope it's animated and voiced by Christopher Judge.

 

[legacy24]

 

[TintoConCasera]

It'd be cool to have more info, like who's running it and who are the writters.

It'll be interesting to check out. Will it be good? Hopefully, but I'm still concerned.

 

[Punished Miku]

I hope it's animated and voiced by Christopher Judge.

I hope it's live action and starring Christopher Judge.

 

[TheTurboFD]

I will throw TF up

 

[AmuroChan]

Amazon Prime? Yuck. Should've gone to HBO who actually knows how to produce good shows.

 

[ssringo]

 

[Pelta88]

When Sony/amazon first announced that they were making "The Boys" a lot of people were skeptical. Not knowing that the source material had a ton of potential.

Given what Sony did with The Boys on Amazon Prime, I'm excited.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Why do I get the feeling they'll ruin it?

Atreus will be a girl, probably one who isn't white, and Kratos will be Hispanic.

All the characters in this European mythological epic will be straight out of the diversity hiring pool.

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

It's Danny DeVito in Homelander's muscle suit as Kratos and the Rings of Power girl as Boy.

 

[Just_one]

Just make Triple H play Kratos

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[EverydayBeast]

TV is so desperate for shows they need original shows not video games.

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[GymWolf]

This is gonna be absolute shit isn't?

 

[thebigmanjosh]

Amazon Prime? Yuck. Should've gone to HBO who actually knows how to produce good shows.

HBO is getting massacred by Discovery and I’m not sure anyone wants to risk project cancellations/delays while they figure their shit out

 

[Kacho]

The entertainment industry needs Jesus

 

[DeepEnigma]

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[lifa-cobex]

This is gonna be absolute shit isn't?

 

[GymWolf]

Confirmed as kratos?

 

[Nankatsu]

Boy line about the change into my sweet son.

 

[Barlow]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazon-god-of-war-tv-series-1235281943/

The streamer has greenlit a series based on the award-winning PlayStation game God of War. The Wheel of Time’s Rafe Judkins will serve as showrunner on the adaptation, and Oscar nominees Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man, The Expanse) are writing and executive producing with Judkins.

Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios are producing God of War in association with PlayStation Productions.

“God of War is a compelling, character-driven franchise that we believe will captivate our global customers as much with its expansive and immersive worlds as its rich storytelling,” Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios, said in a statement. “We are honored to share in the adventure of exploring the God of War mythology in such a momentous way with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions and [game developer] Santa Monica Studio.”

Judkins, Fergus and Ostby are executive producing God of War with Santa Monica Studio creative director Cory Barlog, PlayStation Productions’ Qizilbash and Carter Swan, Santa Monica Studio’s Yumi Yang and Vertigo’s Roy Lee. Santa Monica Studio’s Jeff Ketcham is co-EP.

The series, in development since March, will follow Kratos, the God of War, who exiles himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece and hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard. "When his beloved wife dies," the show's description reads, "Kratos sets off on a dangerous journey with his estranged son to spread her ashes from the highest peak — his wife's final wish. Kratos soon realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which will test the bonds between father and son, and force Kratos to battle new gods and monsters for the fate of the world

 

[3liteDragon]

Oh god not Amazon, they could’ve just collab’d with HBO.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

Series? I think movie would be better but okay..,

 

[brian0057]

 

[Punished Miku]

I bet it starts at 2018 GOW. All you'll get from the previous games are flashbacks.

 

[adamsapple]

Are they gonna reuse Rings of Power sets ?

 

[MiguelItUp]

TV is so desperate for shows they need original shows not video games.

Move over books. It's time for video games to be all over movies and TV.

 

[semiconscious]

This is gonna be absolute shit isn't?

now why on earth would you say something like that?...

 

[El Muerto]

At least Netflix isn't doing it.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[GymWolf]

now why on earth would you say something like that?...

Have you watched wheel of time and rings of power by any chance?

 

[AmuroChan]

HBO is getting massacred by Discovery and I’m not sure anyone wants to risk project cancellations/delays while they figure their shit out

HBO is not going to go under. That's one of the few valuable assets that Discovery/WB owns. Also, Sony can always take the show to another network if shit hits the fan. They're already in bed with HBO on TLOU and a couple of other projects.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Welcome to the streaming age. Everything will be adapted/redone/rebooted, and it'll all be terrible. We did this to ourselves.

 

[mansoor1980]

on a serious note , very interesting video regarding the future potential of video games to movie transition

 

[GymWolf]

Welcome to the streaming age. Everything will be adapted/redone/rebooted, and it'll all be terrible. We did this to ourselves.

I don't think that anyone asked for the majority of remakes.

THEY did this to us.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[Melchiah]

Amazon Prime? Yuck. Should've gone to HBO who actually knows how to produce good shows.

The Expanse (whose writers are onboard), The Boys, The Devil's Hour, The Terror, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel, The Rings of Power, and Good Omens beg to differ. I'd be far more worried if it had gone to Netflix or Apple.

 

[Punished Miku]

The Expanse (whose writers are onboard), The Boys, The Devil's Hour, The Terror, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel, The Rings of Power, and Good Omens beg to differ. I'd be far more worried if it had gone to Netflix or Apple.

Don't forget Wheels of Time .... wait a minute ....

 

[semiconscious]

Have you watched wheel of time and rings of power by any chance?

dude, i was kidding. sorry it wasn't obvious...

 

[AmuroChan]

The Expanse (whose writers are onboard), The Boys, The Devil's Hour, The Terror, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel, The Rings of Power, and Good Omens beg to differ. I'd be far more worried if it had gone to Netflix or Apple.

Hated Rings of Power. Thought it was absolutely awful. Same for Wheel of Time, which was another Sony/Amazon production. Expanse and The Boys were good, but overall I find Amazon shows to be more misses than hits. HBO to me is the best when it comes to percentage of good shows vs bad ones. Netflix is at the bottom for me. Apple I can't speak to since I don't have Apple TV.

 

[Kupfer]

I miss the times when games were made by players for players and we as players were ridiculed by "normal" people but left alone.

Just because there is so much money behind the once good franchises and some managers sniff the big money, mediocre products are being produced, produced, produced.

You have almost no chance to escape the oversaturation and eventually we have only a gray uniform mush, which must satisfy all and no longer dares anything. We can already see it today. The AAA titles rarely dare to do anything anymore, work off their checklists and function to 80% according to the same, promising formula.

Boring. That's all I can think of.

I'm bored by AC
I'm bored by Horizon
I'm bored by CoD
I'm bored by FC
I'm bored by GoW
I'm bored by Halo
I'm bored by BF

All the franchises I used to like became boring by doing the same over and over again. Adding series to that now doesn't make it any better. Only non-gamers can be additionally bored.

 

[Melchiah]

Don't forget Wheels of Time .... wait a minute ....

I enjoyed it. So, if it's at least on par with that, or say Witcher series, I'm good. Not to mention that Sony & Amazon collaboration with The Boys turned out very well.

 

[GymWolf]

dude, i was kidding. sorry it wasn't obvious...

I wasn't certain that you were kidding, some people actually like that stuff

 

[Melchiah]

Hated Rings of Power. Thought it was absolutely awful. Same for Wheel of Time, which was another Sony/Amazon production. Expanse and The Boys were good, but overall I find Amazon shows to be more misses than hits. HBO to me is the best when it comes to percentage of good shows vs bad ones. Netflix is at the bottom for me. Apple I can't speak to since I don't have Apple TV.

I didn't. Preferred it greatly over House of the Dragon. And as said before, The Boys was also Sony/Amazon production. Personally, I find that Amazon offers the most content to my taste.

As for Apple, Foundation, Invasion, and Servant were disappointments. Physical and The Morning Show were good though. I haven't watched For All Mankind, so can't comment on that.

 

[semiconscious]

I wasn't certain that you were kidding, some people actually like that stuff

our modern culture is actively scraping the bottom of the creativity barrel dry. it's disturbing as hell...