Seize your Leviathan Axe and cue up the music of Bear McCreary, as a result of “Star Trek” and “Battlestar Galactica” veteran author and showrunner Ronald D. Moore has simply been chosen to run the writers room, government produce, and write for the brand new Sony TV/Amazon MGM Studios’ Prime Video collection “God of Conflict” per Deadline. For these of you who’ve been followers of the online game franchise that bears the identical identify, let’s clear up a canon query instantly: this new collection is because of be based mostly on the 2018 reboot model of the sport, which takes its cue from Norse mythology versus the unique collection of video games printed from 2005-2013, which had been based mostly on Greek mythology.
That is to not say Greek mythology is completely off the desk, in fact, as a result of the 2018 sport nonetheless sees the identical protagonist/participant character of Kratos some 150 years after 2010’s “God of Conflict III,” and this TV model could have a extremely comparable backstory of battling the Greek gods on a mission of vengeance. All of this materials appears very a lot up Moore’s alley, because the prolific tv guru has tackled varied components of Earth mythology in his earlier work for “Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology,” “Star Trek: Deep House 9,” and “Battlestar Galactica.” That latter collection could significantly point out the route Moore may take “God of Conflict,” on condition that “BSG” and “GoW” share comparable themes of fathers and sons. In any case, the information is an thrilling improvement popping out of Moore’s current take care of Sony Footage Tv, the manufacturing firm with which he developed two different hit collection: “Outlander” and “For All Mankind,” each of which have their very own spinoff collection resulting from hit screens shortly.
Will God of Conflict be extra motion or drama-oriented?
As of this second, it isn’t sure the place Moore intends to take “God of Conflict” as a collection. He is no stranger to adapting pre-existing sci-fi/fantasy materials, given his historical past with “Trek,” “Battlestar,” and “Outlander,” in addition to the anthology “Philip Ok. Dick’s Electrical Desires.” If “God of Conflict” had been being developed as a characteristic, it’d undoubtedly have a big concentrate on the sport’s historical past of hack-n-slash gameplay. Provided that the 2018 “God of Conflict” sport is a extra emotional and considerate story of a father and son (whereas nonetheless being ostensibly an motion sport with RPG components), it is maybe this confusion of focus that led to the “God of Conflict” collection shedding its preliminary artistic group of showrunner Rafe Judkins and government producers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus. Moore’s work, by and huge, tends to be extra considerate and character-driven than too targeted on massive motion setpieces, and it is potential that this changeover alerts the collection transferring in such a route.
That mentioned, it is also potential that Sony/Amazon need to distinguish this collection from one other, equally themed upcoming Netflix collection: Michael Bay’s “Barbaric,” which by all accounts appears like it may be very action-focused. Even when Moore and his group need to make their “God of Conflict” with extra depth than Bay’s present, it will possibly safely be mentioned that their collection will retain some modicum of the sport’s hard-hitting battles. Maybe the swap in focus will deliver the present in keeping with one other online game adaptation that is been lauded for its depth, HBO Max’s “The Final of Us.” No matter Moore and firm find yourself with, the showrunner is an excellent particular person to guess on relating to small-screen success. Like Kratos himself, Moore is aware of plan for the lengthy haul. We’ll see if he does it once more when “God of Conflict” hits Prime Video within the close to future.
