Sony and Amazon have reportedly ordered a creative reset of their planned adaptation of God Of War, the PlayStation hack’n’slash videogame series.
Among the various Sony videogame adaptations in the pipeline is a God Of War TV series, charting the adventures of Kratos, a surly warrior who also happens to be a demigod. It’s now being reported, however, that Sony and Amazon have elected to creatively reset all work done so far on that project. As a result, The Wheel Of Time's Rafe Judkins, along with executive producers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus have all departed and the God Of War TV project is starting over from scratch.
According to Deadline, several scripts for the first season were done before both Sony and Amazon decided to move in a different creative direction. Development work on the project began back in 2022, and for those of you who are fans of the game, you’ll understand what we mean when we say that the story will follow the events of the acclaimed 2018 reboot timeline which was based on Norse myth.
Elsewhere, PlayStation Productions has made a decent stab so far at entering the tricky world of film and TV production. It’s not easy getting anything made, and it’s even less easy to make something that’s successful, both critically and commercially. So far though, the screen production arm of Sony’s gaming division has made The Last Of Us, the HBO show based on the survival horror games has garnered huge acclaim whilst film projects such as Uncharted and even Gran Turismo have performed well at the box office.
Here’s where it gets tricky, though. PlayStation Productions has announced a huge raft of projects, the kind of slate that might make any studio break out in a cold sweat at the thought of developing so many projects while retaining the same levels of quality control. To name but a few, there’s a Ghost Of Tsushima movie along with adaptations of Days Gone, Gravity Rush, Jak And Daxter, Horizon Zero Dawn, not to mention more Uncharted and The Last Of Us.
That’s a lot of projects in the pipeline for a relatively nascent studio and we can’t help but wonder if that might begin to tell as PlayStation Productions finds itself juggling more and more active productions.
We’ll bring you more on this one as we hear it, although given the turn things have taken, it may be some time.
