According to all the rumors, a new television series based on the famous God of War video game is being recorded and edited, and although the release date is still a secret, it is known that it will most likely be produced by Amazon Prime Video, so It will be available on your streaming platform shortly.
The television series will be a collaboration between Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions, as has been leaked in various forums that follow the news of the small screen. This television adaptation of the successful video game saga will be headed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the creators and executive producers of The Expanse, and Rafe Judkins, in turn executive producer of The Wheel.
Few details have yet emerged.
While little is currently known about a possible adaptation of the famous video game, Fergus and Ostby are already very familiar with producing action-adventure and sci-fi franchises, co-writing the Oscar-nominated Children of Men or the original Iron Man movie. .
The popular PlayStation video game franchise consists of seven titles in total, spread across the four main PlayStation consoles (from PS1 to 5) and according to data released by Sony in 2021, it has sold almost 20 million copies on PS4 since its launch in April 2018. In fact, an eighth installment titled God of War: Ragnarok that will arrive on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 will be playable at the end of this 2022, and it is also predicted that it will be a success of sales , so it is not surprising that Amazon Prime wanted to get more out of the franchise.
This is just the latest announcement of a successful video game that has an adaptation for film or television. Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg recently starred in the film adaptation of Uncharted which was released in mid-February, an HBO adaptation of the well-known video game The Last of Us, with millions of copies sold throughout the world. The game is currently in production, Netflix is producing a Resident Evil TV series, and Paramount Plus just released its TV series based on the Halo video game to great acclaim.
The first leaked video of the new series was a roughly minute-long trailer showing a few snippets of the series, originally scheduled to air during a US college basketball game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals.
The performance consisted in the fact that, in the middle of the match, the images of the match flash between several clips of the series of action, while both teams were on the field. When the video was ending, and around the 52nd second, the announcer of the game announced the release date of the new Paramount Plus fiction series.
