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At a glance, there are many reasons to be at least a little bit hopeful about Prime Video\u2019s plans to adapt the Norse duology of God of War. Ronald D. Moore is a tried and tested showrunner, having helmed both Battlestar Galactica and Outlander, among others. And Ryan Hurst, who played Thor in God of War: Ragnarok, is a promising if surprising lead<\/a>. The celebrated Frederick E.O. Toye of Sh\u014dgun is set to direct the first two episodes, while Cory Barlog \u2013 the franchise\u2019s creative shepherd \u2013 will serve as an executive producer, not unlike Bethesda\u2019s Todd Howard on Prime\u2019s Fallout<\/a> or Naughty Dog\u2019s Neil Druckmann on HBO\u2019s The Last of Us<\/a>, two of the finest game adaptations of all time. <\/p>\n

And yet, like Kratos, I have a hard time letting my guard down. Yes, Moore has a pretty nice track record, but he\u2019s also told IGN that he is \u201cnot a gamer\u201d<\/a> \u2013 something that could prevent him from grasping the God of War experience in its entirety. Hurst clearly knows how to play big, angry guys, but can he live up to the legacy of Christopher Judge? As for Barlog: George R.R. Martin serves as an EP on House of the Dragon<\/a>, but that has not prevented showrunner Ryan Condal from straying further and further away from the source material, the way Benioff and Weiss did with Game of Thrones. <\/p>\n

Above all, I\u2019m reminded of that cringeworthy live-action Super Bowl commercial for God of War: Ascension<\/a> from 2013 \u2013 the one where Calliope turns to ash in Kratos\u2019 arms to the sound of Ellie Goulding\u2019s \u201cHanging On.\u201d Even as an obsessive teenager amassing piles of Collector\u2019s Editions and bombarding the inbox of Santa Monica Studio\u2019s HR department with ideas for sequels involving Ra, Buddha, and Jesus, I couldn\u2019t help but feel that there was something off about seeing Kratos as an actual human being as opposed to an in-game model.<\/p>\n

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So when it comes to this Prime series, there are a couple of challenges. First, a relatively minor issue: what about Greece? More than a few fans were frustrated to learn that the show will only cover God of War 2018 and God of War: Ragnarok, rather than work their way up from the original trilogy. They\u2019re right to be upset, as the Norse games need<\/em> the Greek ones to make sense, and the same can be said about any adaptation, should they want to make the same impact. Start with 2018 and you won\u2019t fully understand why Kratos is so afraid and ashamed of his past, why he\u2019s hesitant to open up to Atreus. Likewise, you\u2019ll miss out on the meaning and pathos of one of the best moments in the entire series: the return of the Blades of Chaos. <\/p>\n

Several solutions present themselves. The adaptation could sum up the entire Greek saga in an immersive, stage-setting episode \u00e0 la the preamble of One Battle After Another<\/a>, or it could deliver the story piecemeal through flashbacks. Or it could just do what the 2018 game does: have Kratos drip-feed his past, his confessions drawn out by the twists and turns encountered on the journey with his son. If anything, Moore and his writing team shouldn\u2019t feel like they owe new audiences exposition: the mystery of Kratos\u2019 relationship with Atreus, why he keeps a distance from this otherwise nice boy, should be enough to keep them engaged.<\/p>\n

Live-action has struggled to depict the kind of extended one vs. one confrontations between superpowered individuals that video games excel at.<\/section>\n

The other, bigger issue requires some explanation. In hindsight, it isn\u2019t surprising that Fallout and The Last of Us were the ones to definitively break the game adaptation curse. Both franchises are, first and foremost, vehicles for storytelling. In Bethesda\u2019s case, players create their own stories through sandbox gameplay and dialogue options; in Naughty Dog\u2019s games, stories are told directly by the developers, their cinematic style blurring the line between games and movies. The transition from one medium to another is fluid, almost logical.<\/p>\n

Narrative plays an important part in God of War too, of course, but it\u2019s neither the only nor the most important one. Regardless of mythology, the franchise has always concerned itself above all else with spectacle, delivering action set pieces on a scale never seen before \u2013 in any medium. To this day, the opening sequence of God of War 3, in which Kratos and the Titans face off against Zeus\u2019 pantheon as they climb up Mt. Olympus, remains the single most epic thing I have seen in my entire life. Nothing \u2013 not the Battle of Minas Tirith in The Return of the King, nor the fight against Thanos at the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame \u2013 comes close. <\/p>\n

Fanboying aside, I think any director would have a tough time capturing this epicness on camera. Not only because of financial restrictions \u2013 Moore is unlikely to receive a budget similar to James Cameron\u2019s latest Avatar movie, let alone the $1 billion pumped into Prime\u2019s own Rings of Power \u2013 but also because of limitations baked into the filmmaking medium itself. Though great at representing wars and battles with many moving pieces, live-action has long struggled to depict the kind of extended, stylized, one vs. one confrontations between superpowered individuals that animation (think Legend of Aang, Legend of Korra, One Piece, One-Punch Man) and video games (God of War, Devil May Cry, Black Myth: Wukong) excel at. Not even the recent Superman films, developed during an age when CGI can theoretically help directors achieve anything, have captured the kind of supernatural brawls demanded of Kratos’ story.<\/p>\n

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Put differently: I think it\u2019s impossible to film the fight between Kratos and Baldur (or Thor or Zeus or any other god) using live actors that goes as hard as it does in-game, which puts Moore and his team in a bit of a conundrum. They could scale the fight back, reducing the literally earth-shattering conflict into your run-of-the-mill Hollywood fistfight, though this would anger and alienate fans of the games who expect something just as \u2013 or almost as \u2013 impressive as what they experienced with a controller in their hands. <\/p>\n

Another, more efficient and effective but also ballsier option would be to treat Kratos\u2019 unfathomable strength like the shark from Jaws: alluded to and talked about, but kept hidden from view except for a couple of brief moments. Instead of having the Kratos-Baldur fight play out like two cosplayers pretending to do what their characters do in the game, imagine following the events from Atreus\u2019 perspective: hidden under the floorboards and feeling the ground shake once talking leads to punching. We wouldn\u2019t see the fight itself, just its aftermath: the trees felled, the boulders shattered, that gigantic ravine that appeared from nowhere. This way, we\u2019re left to imagine what transpired \u2013 and chances are, your imagination is better than anything the filmmakers could show us. <\/p>\n

Ironically, then, it just may be that the best possible adaptation of God of War would be one that keeps the visible action to a minimum.<\/p>\n

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Tim Brinkhof is a freelance writer specializing in art and history. After studying journalism at NYU, he has gone on to write for Vox, Vulture, Slate, Polygon, GQ, Esquire and more.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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