The writers for the big-screen adaptation of God of War have dealt some details about their plans with the script.
The writing team of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton were asked about how God of War will differ from movies like Clash of the Titans and Immortals.
“Those movies can inform the God of War to step in a more bold direction,” said Dunstan. “Not to join those ranks, but to stand head and shoulders apart like other reinventions have done within that genre. The satisfying element is to look at those movies as a commentary on the genre and now say something different.”
Melton added that Sony has allowed a lot of leeway with the writing process and story adaptation from the game.
“Sony games, you think they’d be sacred about the origin story and all of that, but they were encouraging us to make it different from those movies and if that means going in dramatic shifts, they were cool with it. And they’re involved,” Melton said.
Melton and Dunstan will rewrite the script which was originally done by David Self, who now fills the role of executive producer.
Melton and Dunstan are best known for their writing work on various instalments in the Saw horror franchise, as well as writing the screenplay for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming sci-fi film, Pacific Rim.
Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing the movie through Atlas Entertainment.
While the God of War movie originally looked to be a victim of Hollywood game-to-movie adaptation, it seems as if the Ghost of Sparta will be making his cinema debut after all.
Are you excited to see Kratos tear up the silver-screen?
Source: ShockTillYouDrop
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