It’s tough when a highly touted TV project loses its creative team before the show even comes out. Hard time all around, uncertainty abounding. Amazon’s high-profile adaptation of Sony’s beloved God of War game franchise parted ways with its showrunner and executive producers in October 2024. But that dark time ended quickly. It was a really rough…weekend, I guess? God of War very quickly received a new showrunner. And God of War‘s new showrunner wasn’t just anyone—joining the Prime Video God of War series was a highly respected and proven writer-showrunner, Battlestar Galactica and For All Mankind creator Ronald D. Moore.
Moore will run the nascent God of War series, writing and producing as well. This is, of course, customary with television programs of this ilk. What’s not so customary is Moore’s recent reveal that God of War has actually been greenlit for two seasons. Moore shared in a recent interview with Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff, “Right now, I’m working on an adaptation of, there’s a video game called God of War, a big title in the gaming world that Amazon has ordered two seasons of and they’ve asked me to come in. So I’m literally in the writer’s room, and working on that. That’s my new thing.” Two seasons, you say! That’s a lot of confidence in a show that’s been in development for a really long time. But hopefully, it’s as good as the company thinks. You can hear Moore discussing the God of War series and its two seasons at the 1:17:17 mark below.
Moore admits that though he’s helming the God of War series, he’s not a gamer. He shares that he “took a stab at it” but couldn’t conquer the controllers. “‘Press R1.’ Which one’s R1? Oh, I’m dead,” Moore joked. But what Moore does have is a rich history developing some excellent series for TV. Moore returned to Sony TV following his departure in 2020. During his initial tenure with the studio, Moore developed or created long-running shows Outlander for Starz and For All Mankind for Apple TV+. Both shows are continuing and have spinoffs on the way; Blood of My Blood and Star City, respectively. Moore will serve as EP for both the flagship God of War series and any spinoffs.
After two years on the project, God of War lost its original writers and showrunner in 2024. The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins had been at the helm, with The Expanse creators Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus writing the series and serving as executive producers. Deadline learned Sony and Amazon were looking to hire a whole new writers room following “creative differences” with the trio of writers. Moore has likely had plenty of thoughts about that God of War writer’s room.
The God of War series will almost assuredly adapt the 2018 PlayStation megahit and 2022 sequel, God of War: Ragnarok. Both feature Greek demigod Kratos having slaughtered the pantheon of Greek god and retiring with his son to Scandinavia where he must contend with mythical figures of Norse mythology. The first of those won Game of the Year.
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