‘God of Conflict’ TV Collection Casts Its Kratos

Greater than three years after the sequence was first introduced, Amazon says it has discovered the person to play the star of its TV present primarily based on the long-running God of War TV sequence.

That’s him above on the left (uh, clearly). Ryan Hurst will play Kratos, the warrior on the heart of the God of Conflict video games. Prime Video’s press launch in regards to the information says he’s “Spartan by start, and a god by nature” and was “raised in a martial tradition, he rose to command armies in service of his homeland till in the future he made a fateful take care of Ares, the Greek God of Conflict and misplaced his soul in change for being victorious in battle.”

Amazon has already ordered two seasons of the TV sequence. Frederick E.O. Toye (Shōgun, The Boys, Fallout) will direct the pilot; Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, For All Mankind) is the showrunner. (In its preliminary phases, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have been writing the present; Moore changed them in late 2024.)

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When the sequence was first introduced, this was how Amazon described the sequence:

The sequence follows Kratos, the God of Conflict, who, after exiling himself from his blood-soaked previous in historic Greece, hangs up his weapons ceaselessly within the Norse realm of Midgard. When his beloved spouse dies, Kratos units off on a harmful journey together with his estranged son to unfold her ashes from the best peak — his spouse’s last want. Kratos quickly realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which can check the bonds between father and son, and power Kratos to battle new Gods and monsters for the destiny of the world.

That syncs up with the premise of 2018’s God of Conflict, first launched for PlayStation 4. Regardless of its easy title, it’s really the eighth recreation within the franchise and one thing of a reboot of it. A sequel, God of Conflict: Ragnarok, was launched in 2022 for PlayStation 5.