Amazon’s Prime Video is currently in talks to adapt God of War into a live-action TV series adaptation from Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions.
Based on the popular Santa Monica Studio-produced PlayStation game, the series would be from The Expanse creators Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins.
As of right now, there are no details on whether this series would follow the classic God of War trilogy that came out on PS2 and PS2 or the recent soft reboot.
God of War is one of Sony’s longest-running franchises, spanning seven mainline games across four consoles. The most recent entry in the series was 2018’s which acted as a soft reboot of the franchise by introducing players to Atreus, the son of protagonist Kratos, and the pantheon of Norse gods. The sequel to God of War is currently in development at Santa Monica Studio and is expected to come out later this year.
The news comes just after Peacock announced its Twisted Metal lead by Anthony Mackie, also from Sony and PlayStation. God of War marks the third show in development from Sony Pictures TV and PlayStation Productions, the first being HBO’s The Last of Us, a series adaptation of Uncharted developer Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed action game and Amazon’s Fallout adaptation. Paramount Plus’s upcoming Halo, the just announced Anthony Mackie-led Twisted Metal at Peacock and Netflix’s Resident Evil project. There’s also the Ghost of Tsushima movie in the works with John Wick director Chad Stahelski at the helm.
