God of War movie a step in 'bold' new direction - Report

Wait, the Saw movies had scriptwriters?!?!?!

I will laugh my ass off if the movie is PG13.

@jeffbordonaro @connorx94 Exactly. No one thinks that Mortal Kombat is a bad game just because the movie sucked. In actuality when a game is being turned into a movie it is usually a good game that sold very well. You don't see movies being made of bad games that don't have a fan base.

Personally, GOW does not need to be a movie.

Secondly, the writers of Saw IV and up are writing this move.

-shakes head- I do not see much promise in this even if they claim they will have this movie be a step in "a bold new direction"

Just what is this bold new direction, then? Oh, there's no word on that. So does this honestly qualify as news when it's essentially just the writers saying that their film is going to be better than all of those 'other' films in its genre?

I can't help but wonder what they're planning on doing differently (if they really are), though. I can see them getting rid of elements which feature in the other films - a love interest, 'good guys', all protagonist dialogue which isn't very, very angry - but I'm not sure what they could add to it other than intensifying the gore & the yelling.

I'm hopefully optimistic. The problem is that '300' has already been done. It's basically going to have to be a '300' style movie except with an epic quest and an absolutely horrifying protagonist.

Either way, I vote Brendan Sinclair for the role of Kratos. He seems to have a very good understanding of his emotional range =).

Because Saw four through seven were pure cinematic gems.

Im sort of hoping for a film that is very '300' in style. But I do always hate games being made into films and vice versa so I have very little expectations for this.

Quote from writers, "I actually have not played GOW but the cover is cool man! There's like this angry bald guy. I can really work from there. I want to write a totally new story because we need to appeal to a wide audience. This will be a bold move. It will be a bit of everything, lots of romance, comedy, a bit of sci fi elements and 1 or 2 musical scenes. It will be set in present day middle east. This will be totally different from Clash of the TItans. I'm very excited to be making this historical film, God of War: Bald Dude F***ing Shit up!"

why should i care about these things when most (and i seriously mean most) of these dont even end up finished, and the ones that actually hit the big screen are all heaps of shit?

Yes, nothing spells "bold" in Hollywood like dudes who are called in to squeeze the last few million out of a franchise after it has already started to suck. Why not just give up entirely and bring in Uwe Boll? At least directors like Paul WS Anderson and Christophe Gans love the games they're mutilating for the big screen.

I don't suppose it's going to be any good.

It won't be hard to be better than Clash of the Titans and Immortals, especially The Immortals. Horrible f'in movie.

Why must they make a movie out of everything good

God, they better not give Kratos a love interest and set it at a high school...

Bold?! The only thing more dramatic than that would be ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!

Game has everything they need to make a movie adaptation without fucking up the story. I'm just sad to see the "minds behind the latest Saw movies" won't be a shallow, boring gore fest. Seeing how far the latest Saw movies strayed from the original (which was actually good) doesn't give me good hopes for God of War, but it's one of my favorite game series so I'll keep looking for news on the movie.

Let's hope they've just actually played the games.

I know there are lots of gamers and all, but this isn't exactly a Marvel or DC superhero movie. I don't think the box office results will be all that good even if it turns out to be a good movie. I could be wrong, but unless the general non gaming public sees it as a cool sci-fi/mythical or action adventure movie, one would think that the only turn outs will be gamers and young adults (18-35 mostly males). I am not suggesting that the movie will fail only because of this, but I think the odds are already stacked against them IMO.

Oh, a "bold direction" is it? Will the movie have QTEs?

ooh god lemme guess movie will be similar to pop crap movie, Srsly i don't see how badass bloody kratos can be In movie ....

Clash and Wrath of the Titans were passable action movies with lots of flash and very little story, but Immortals was just a bad film in my opinion. It was trying too hard to be 300, and for some inexplicable reason they portrayed the Titans as weird, zombie looking things trapped in a box. God of War shouldn't have to try very hard to surpass all 3 of those films but I'm not happy that these guys wrote many of the worst Saw films (Saw 2 being the absolute worst). Lets hope the God of War film series isn't a convoluted disaster of impossible plot hole fillers.

I would rather see an animated version than a live action adaptation. I am not sure how well live actors and special effects will work for a God of War movie.

why make a shitty movie when we could just have another GoW game that doesn't suck balls.

the price would be the same with how expensive going to the movies is anyway.

Video game to movie adaptations never really go well...so have my expectations at below zero.

This movie by all intent and purpose should be insanely badass. It just sucks we are talking about Hollywood and their ability to screw it up to the point where you have to ask yourself, how, just how? You wonder how incompetent some of them really are.

we do not need god of war movie God of war 1,2,3 and the new are the movies

I love gold of war!

How is it that every time I hear about a movie adaption of a game, when I read the details and find out who they have working on it, my first reaction is almost always abject horror? They announce a Deus Ex movie, I think, "sweet, that has promise." I read the article. "I never asked for this." They announce a God of War movie, I think, "not my cup of tea, but fair enough." I read the article. "God help us all."