God of War Just Added a God-Tier Showrunner

When Amazon parted ways with the showrunners of its upcoming video crippled adaptation God of War, we assumed the worst. But now, the other has happened. Ronald D. Moore, 1 of the main forces down fantastic shows similar Battlestar Galactica, For All Mankind, and Outlander has boarded arsenic writer, producer, and showrunner, which is large quality for a amusement with immense potential.

Deadline broke the quality of Moore’s involvement, which comes days aft enforcement producers Rafe Judkins, Hawk Ostby, and Mark Fergus near the amusement after 2 and a fractional years of work. Reportedly, Amazon wanted to spell successful a caller direction, which seems chaotic aft TWO AND A HALF YEARS. But Moore truthful rapidly swooping successful surely suggests a program is successful place.

God of War, based connected the deed Santa Monica Studios franchise, has been astir since 2005. It’s spawned aggregate games connected aggregate consoles, galore of which halfway connected Kratos, a fierce warrior who does conflict with the Gods. It saw a resurgence successful 2018 with a caller mentation connected PlayStation 4 and had different monolithic deed successful 2022 with its sequel, God of War: Ragnarok. That’s erstwhile Amazon came connected committee and, astatine the time, the streamer was precise excited.

“The God of War is simply a compelling, character-driven franchise that we judge volition captivate our planetary customers arsenic overmuch with its expansive and immersive worlds arsenic its affluent storytelling,” Vernon Sanders, caput of planetary tv astatine Amazon Studios, said successful 2022. “We are honored to stock successful the escapade of exploring the God of War mythology successful specified a momentous mode with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Santa Monica Studio.”

Moore had immoderate of his biggest successes with Sony earlier helium near the company—and earlier this year, helium signed again with the studio. God of War is his archetypal task nether that woody and it’ll beryllium absorbing to spot what absorption helium takes with the show. Will helium adjacent look astatine immoderate of the enactment Judkins, Ostby, and Fergus did? Or volition it beryllium a leafage 1 reset? We don’t know.

What we bash cognize is that Amazon has had a bully magnitude of occurrence successful some the phantasy and video crippled spaces. Earlier this year, its adaptation of Fallout debuted to rave reviews from critics and fans. And, of course, it’s besides the streamer down The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, and more. If immoderate streamer has what it takes to crook a crippled similar God of War into a hit, it has and volition proceed to beryllium Amazon. And fewer showrunners are arsenic well-equipped successful that sci-fi phantasy genre abstraction to unrecorded up to the task arsenic Moore.

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