Deadline is reporting that Sony and Amazon have tapped Sons of Anarchy and God of Conflict: Ragnarök actor Ryan Hurst to play Kratos within the upcoming live-action God of War series.
Hurst, who performed Thor within the 2022 God of Conflict recreation, shall be swapping roles for the present, and can lead the collection based mostly on the storylines of the fashionable GoW video games, which discover Kratos interacting with (and sometimes preventing) figures from Norse mythology. We nonetheless don’t know who shall be taking part in his son Atreus, however it’s cool to have Hurst on as somebody who’s intimately acquainted with the supply materials.
Together with taking part in Thor, Hurst’s notable credit embrace taking part in Opie in Sons of Anarchy, in addition to Beta within the Strolling Lifeless franchise, each in the primary collection and the Concern the Strolling Lifeless spin-off present. Most just lately, he has performed Miles within the new Netflix western collection The Abandons.
If you’d like a fast refresher on Hurst’s appearing chops, somebody was form sufficient to compile all his scenes as Thor in Ragnarök.
That’s the one casting information we’ve for now, however on condition that the present appears to be comfy choosing from the sport’s solid, it will be attention-grabbing to see Sunny Suljic reprise his function as Atreus for the collection, although the 20-year-old actor is likely to be a bit too previous to play the kid as he appeared within the 2018 recreation at this level. Atreus was nonetheless a younger teen by the point Ragnarök got here round, nonetheless, and Suljic nonetheless appears fairly younger.
There have been rumors that Christopher Choose, the actor who performs Kratos within the Norse God of Conflict video games, was additionally up for the live-action function final 12 months, however Choose himself appeared to debunk these in an X post in September.
The God of Conflict collection is coming from author, showrunner, and govt producer Ronald D. Moore, who’s greatest recognized for his work on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
