{"id":5268,"date":"2012-08-31T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2012-08-31T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:26:21","slug":"god-of-war-movie-details-from-scribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/god-of-war-movie-details-from-scribes\/","title":{"rendered":"“God of War” Movie Details From Scribes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month came word that “Saw” sequel and “Pacific Rim” scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan had come onboard the film adaptation of Sonys popular and acclaimed video game series “God of War”.<\/p>\n

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The first game followed the battles of the Spartan warrior Kratos, who squares off against mythological beasts including Medusa, Cyclops and the Hydra in his quest to find Pandoras Box and destroy Ares, the God of war.<\/p>\n

By the end of the third game, much of the Greek pantheon lay dead at Kratos feet. The game is famous for its graphics and imaginative environments, its often copied gameplay, and its doses of sex and extreme violence.<\/p>\n

Now speaking with IGN, Melton and Dunstan revealed why they were hired to rework David Self\u2019s existing script.<\/p>\n

“The only problem with that [script] is it was written before Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, 300 and Immortals, and those movies borrowed quite a bit from the God of War stories. It was just a little bit outdated, so we wanted to differentiate it from those other movies.”<\/p>\n

The plan is to take something like Chris Nolans grounded approach to the character in what is essentially a prequel to the games – “we\u2019re seeing him before he became the Ghost of Sparta, when he was just a Spartan warrior and he had family and kids.”<\/p>\n

Said prequel however will only be short-lived – “In the game\u2026 there\u2019s that attack from the barbarians and Kratos has to call upon Ares to help him. Really, that\u2019s going to be our first act break. Before then, he\u2019s going to be mortal, and he\u2019s going to have his family. We\u2019re going to learn about him and understand how he operates. So it\u2019s potentially 30 minutes \u2014 give or take \u2014 of building up this character so that, when he does turn and becomes the Ghost of Sparta, we understand him as a human and we understand the journey that he\u2019s going to take.”<\/p>\n

Sequels are already in mind and so the film is being designed that way – “We\u2019re emotionally invested, so that it could go beyond just this one movie. In the game, you know, he\u2019s immortal, and he doesn\u2019t really do much besides raid Athens. So we\u2019re trying to build him up a bit more, too, so that he can become a true villain.”<\/p>\n

via “God of War” Movie Details From Scribes | News | Dark Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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