Sony’s God of Struggle TV present at present in-development at Amazon is reportedly getting a reboot two years after it was first introduced. The variation has misplaced its showrunner and head producer as the businesses reportedly look to take the present scripts in a unique artistic route.
Showrunner Rafe Judkins (Wheel of Time) and government producers Hawk Ostby (The Expanse) and Mark Fergus (Kids of Males) have departed the mission, Selection experiences. Regardless of “a number of accomplished scripts,” each Sony and Amazon apparently determined to take the deliberate present in a brand new route that successfully precipitated a whole reboot of the mission.
First teased again in 2022, Amazon promised the God of Struggle TV present could be “extremely true” to the PlayStation video games that it’s based mostly on, together with that yr’s critically-acclaimed God of Struggle Ragnarök. Whereas that recreation’s director, Cory Barlog, stays an government producer on the mission, the remainder of the artistic management appears to now not be hooked up.
“So what [showrunners] Rafe Judkins and Mark Fergus and [writer] Hawk Ostby have give you for the primary season, and for the collection, I feel, is each extremely true to the supply materials, and in addition compelling by itself,” Vernon Sanders, head of Amazon TV, mentioned on the time. “So we expect it’s going to be large.” Apparently not!
That is the second PlayStation adaptation to hit tough waters regardless of the success of HBO’s The Final Of Us, which is at present prepping for its season 2 return in 2025. A Horizon Zero Daybreak TV adaptation for Netflix can also be reportedly in bother after Steve Blackman was reportedly eliminated earlier this yr for poisonous conduct. As of now the mission is outwardly lifeless, a minimum of at Netflix.
Sony seems undeterred by these hiccups, nevertheless. It’s already introduced transmedia ambitions for Ghost of Yotei, it’s Tsushima successor that’s not even out but. The samurai gaming story will reportedly get “a minimum of one film and different spinoffs.”
