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 only just parted ways with its showrunner and executive producers. And now that dark time has ended. What a rough…weekend, I guess? God of War not only has a new showrunner, it’s only a highly respected and proven writer-showrunner in Battlestar Galactica and For All Mankind creator Ronald D. Moore.
The news comes to us from Deadline which shared Moore will run the nascent series, writing and producing as well. This is, of course, customary with television programs of this ilk. Moore had recently 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 flagship and spinoff.
Last week, we learned after two years on the project, God of War lost its original writers and showrunner. 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. This news was first released in December 2022. Deadline learned Sony and Amazon were looking to hire a whole new writers room following “creative differences” with the trio of writers. Moore will likely have plenty of thoughts about that writers 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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