By After suffering a seeming setback the other day, the TV series adaptation of the acclaimed PlayStation video game franchise “God of War” has gotten a serious upgrade.
Peabody-winning veteran TV writer/producer Ronald D. Moore, best known for creating and show running 2004’s “Battlestar Galactica” reboot, has been set as writer, executive producer and showrunner of the series.
Moore got his start writing some of the most acclaimed “Star Trek: The Next Generation” before seguing to serving as a major writer/producer on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” from its third season onwards.
In more recent years, he created and served as showrunner on 2014’s “Outlander” series and created acclaimed Apple TV+ series “For All Mankind”.
He had been locked in a deal at Disney until recently when he went back to Sony Pictures TV Studios in a new multi-year overall deal – paving the way for this.
Moore replaces the previously attached “The Wheel of Time” producer Rafe Judkins and “Iron Man” scribes Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus who had been with the series for over two years.
That group had completed multiple scripts prior to the changeover; with Moore aboard, the project is reportedly starting from scratch with a new creative direction.
The original games follow ex-Spartan warrior Kratos on his perilous journey to exact revenge on the Greek Gods. Under the previous creative talents, the plan was to adapt the 2018 reboot centered on Norse mythology – it’s not clear if that’s still the case with Moore taking over.
Source: Deadline
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