Brett Ratner to Direct God of War Movie?
Here’s a pretty hot scoop coming to you exclusively from Film Junk (sort of). There was an article yesterday on popular gaming site Joystiq that hinted that Brett Ratner was looking to get into making video game movies (which quite honestly, doesn’t really surprise me). This was based on a statement he made regarding his new marketing company Brett Ratner Brands, which has recently been helping video game companies get their products to appear in TV shows and music videos: “The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now… I will be doing movies that come from videogames.”
Now, Advertising Age also has a longer write-up on his new branding consultancy business (which in itself is pretty amusing and definitely worth a read). However, at the tail end of the article, they drop this juicy little tidbit: “He also mentioned that he might be working on a movie adaptation of the video game God of War.”
Whoa… God of War is a huge game franchise and potentially very lucrative movie property. Would Sony really go and hand it over to The Rat? We all know that Ratner’s reputation precedes him on the internet, and something tells me they’d be provoking a lot of angry fanboys if they did this. Then again, Ratner’s still a cut above Uwe Boll and Paul W.S. Anderson, right? (And here I was hoping Ratner might be taking on the Tetris movie that Boll supposedly turned down.) What do you think… could Ratner pull off a God of War movie? Stay tuned for more details as they become available!
Comments (47)
What the hell is this shit?
Posted by swarez on May 29th, 2008They are incoming links from other sites… To be honest I’m not sure why these are getting posted in the comments right now!
Posted by Sean on May 29th, 2008For the love of all that’s holy, Bret Ratner is a certfied dickface and should NOT put his f’n hands on God Of War…it’s my favorite game of all time, damnit! Don’t ruin it for me!
Posted by Arvindh on May 29th, 2008Brett Ratner is a fine director. Why are people so obsessed with calling him an asshole when they’ve never met the guy and are only spouting this nonsense because Harry Knowles does it for some strange reason as well.
Posted by swarez on May 30th, 2008And don’t act like God of War has some sort of deep involving story that needs to be on the silver screen. It’s a glorified platform hack and slash game, albeit a very good one.
And how does a film version ruin a game?
If it’s done well it might be like Conan on crack. (Which would well be worth looking out for. There is one actor who was in American History X, who looks like Cratos and would be great on the silver screen. But I don’t know his name. He was the prison portion of the movie American History X as a neo-nazi.
Posted by Matt on June 2nd, 2008Kratos just better be played by somebody good. Bill goldberg is prety much perfect. They dont need a good actor like djmond they just need a huge white guy to go in and slash and hack people. As for the director, they need someone amazing to make this movie awsome.
Posted by God Of War Owns on June 17th, 2008I hope to God, uh, the God of Movie Making that Brett Ratner doesn’t get anywhere near this project. Because if he does, it’s only going to do one thing: further the belief that video game movies can’t be good. And if Ratner does this, that’s all the movie is going to be, is a video game movie, at best. There needs to be a good director backing this, not someone who likes to take a dump on the X-Men franchise. Come on people, have some sense!!!
Posted by J Earnest on August 5th, 2008I think the best actor for this movie is Djimon Hounsou YES he is black wit paint he is kratos sry white guy. the movie need a great actor not a dumb bodybulider
Posted by chikezie on August 5th, 2008I think the best actor to play Kratos character is
Posted by Shah on August 25th, 2008Vin Diesel…
Quite the contrary, this would be an action movie…for the most part we just need a “dumb bodybuilder” but why does that even matter??
Posted by Robert London on August 28th, 2008I think Bill Goldberg would be THE perfect Kratos.
As for the actor, I don’t know about this guy….but I definitely know the movie needs to do the video game justice…and that’s to be an epic movie like 300…where’s the director of 300???
i think we should go in for the blackstar captain, stephen appiah.
Posted by clifford on September 3rd, 2008god of war (kratos) was greek. how the hell a black man play that character. for god’s sake you need someone like vin diesel, with muscular jaw line and thin long nose. plus vin diesel has the right voice as well.
Posted by bablu on September 6th, 2008i think vin diesel would be the perfect kratos hands down, and i would know because this is my favorite game and i know when and if this movie comes out i would watch but i believe there is no other actor besides vin diesel to play kratos
Posted by james sanders on September 15th, 2008vin diesel! hands down. he looks like him, he’s built like him, hell he even sounds like him. i mean, check him out on the riddick chronicles. he’s awesome.
Posted by April Sanders on September 15th, 2008Hey, Swarez. Brett Ratner is a fine director? Have you seen any of his movies? This moron couldn’t direct his way out of a paper bag, and your defending him? Who the hell are you? Helen Keller? He has directed an entire slew of crap, and killed X3 on top of that. And if your only thoughts of a God Of War movie, is that it doesn’t even have a deep/involving enough story to be on the silver screen, get somewhere! You shouldn’t even be in here. And seriously guys, a black spartan? If they want to give us any of his background in the movie, he will have to be caucasian. There is no way they could make him look naturally white. We don’t need White Chicks 2.
Posted by Frankie on September 21st, 2008KRATOS SHOULD BE PLAYING AS KRATOS. With an animated film kratos will be the kratos we all know and enjoy watching why is everyone talking about vin diesel playing as kratos? This film will be a disaster if any human actor plays as kratos this film would need to be (ANIMATED). kratos has a perfect look, no one is going to fit his mean look and body,vin diesel looks lardy next to him. we need something like beowolf but God of War will be 100 times better, UNCOMPARABLE
Posted by yesenia on October 5th, 20081. they need to search for a real Greek actor that can speak English well.
Posted by Cblades2002 on October 17th, 20082. the screenplay need to be check by Jaffe first before filming.
3. Brett don’t kill the x-men films, the studios exes. did that by rushing to get the film done.
4. get t.c. carson to voice over like they did with ray parks’ darth maul
yeah ratner shouldnt direct the movie that would be a disaster, vin diesel doesn’t fit for kratos i don’t know what u guys are talking bout, djmon does but i go with the idea that kratos should be kratos and that it should be a full length 3d animation like beowulf that way it djom or diesel can play the body movements
Posted by opanka on November 3rd, 2008new face idea is gud n a greek one tooo
Posted by bn on November 10th, 2008a lack of talent like vin diesel has no business playing a character with so much depth as kratos. if done properly, this has the potential to be a kick-ass trilogy but the director and screenwriter need to take this seriously and consider how best to develop such a heavily involved video game with so many emotional storylines going on. this needs to be adapted properly … and it’s not just some ass-kicking, slicing and dicing up bad guys game. there’s a hell of a lot more to this game that fighting. this could be an epic tale. and since kratos is covered for life in the ashes of his dead wife and child, dijmion could likely pull off the representation if he’s covered like kratos. why hasn’t gerard butler been considered? or ray stevenson? keep positive, GOW lovers, and maybe — just maybe this will REPRESENT and blow us all away.
Posted by GOW_chick on December 21st, 2008I totally agree that a greek should play Kratos or if nothing else the guy who plays on the show Prison Break as has been suggested. Casting a black man is just not going to keep the realism we need for this movie, anybody remember Wil Smith as Jim West(my namesake).No racism here but lets just keep as close to the story as we can. It would be ideal to find a greek actor to play Kratos. I don’t really care about the rest of the cast but if we need racial diversity you get get Jimon or Tiny Zeus Lesyer to play Ares as he is always a black figure in Greek Mythos. I really want to say to whoever does this movie..DO NOT SCREW IT UP…We gamers don’t take screw ups lightly…neither does Kratos ! !
Posted by jamesweat on January 1st, 2009Ok I agree w/ sum of u. Vin Diesel isn’t the greatest actor but he does fit the part of Kratos looks wise and he already has the voice. I don’t think it should b a 3d verion cause dats like watching the game all over again. As for the director Guillemo Del Torro (bad spelling) hands down. Look at his work wit hellboy and Pans Labryinth. But b prepared for sum disappointment they never do video game movies justice. But I hope they don’t do too bad!
Posted by Atreyu on January 2nd, 2009not to burst any bubbles but I think the director who did 300 need to write and direct the movie with the same 300 style but much much realer like Gladiator and Troy and long like The Lord of the Rings series to match each game. Actor for Kratos should either be the main star from the movie 300 but of course with a shaved head or the prison break dude. Might be funny but I think Ares should be the guy that play bullet tooth tony from snatch. Sean Conery play Zeus
Posted by its me on January 3rd, 2009not to burst any bubbles but I think the director who did 300 need to write and direct the movie with the same 300 style but much much realer like Gladiator and Troy and long like The Lord of the Rings series to match each game. Actor for Kratos should either be the main star from the movie 300 but of course with a shaved head or the prison break dude. Might be funny but I think Ares should be the guy that play bullet tooth tony from snatch. Sean Conery play Zeus. Vin deisel suck, but he is the closest to Kratos. If he was a better actor and stop saying them corney suppose to be funny lines, he’ll be a favorite. Other than that he aunt serious enough. And Riddick wasn’t all that, I don’t think he was tough enough and his fighting is dumb
Posted by its me on January 3rd, 2009Djimon Hounsou should play Kratos period…hes a great actor and hes goin to make this a great movie…come on ppl Vin Diesel and Dominic Purcell dey wack…Djimon is da best for da role…who gives a f*** dat hes black…look at nick fury (samuel l. jackson)…plus he has a strong voice similar to Kratos…all he has to do is get bulked up a bit den throw on some white powder or get ashy den its all koo…peace out…
Posted by Anony on January 7th, 2009Djimon Hounsou is da best for da role…i rather have a great actor den sum bulk a$$ wack actor ruining da movie period….
Posted by anonymous on January 7th, 2009I think Djimon and Vin would both be good choices. I don’t agree with Bill Goldberg though, mostly because he isn’t a very good actor. He’s got the build and look true but I would like a God of War movie to be of the few game based movies to be good and not turn into another Doom. Personally though I would really like to see Christopher Judge (Teal’C from Stargate SG1) in the role of Kratos. He’s an excellent actor and has the build and look down pretty well. Just cover him in ashes and he’s good to go. It really doesn’t matter with Djimon or Christopher being black since the character of Kratos if covered in ashes anyways.
Posted by akumaokami on January 11th, 2009Alright this thing with the right character for Kratos. I think Djimon Hounsou should have the role as Kratos. So what if he’s black. He’s got the look, build and also speed. And if you have not notice, Kratos has some speed. And i think that Djimon should have the role. As for the director, I can’t say much.
Posted by Bernard on January 13th, 2009I agree 1 million% w/ Cblades2002, the film should be animated. That way they can do even MORE awesome effects than a live action movie. But if it’s live they still need 2 have TC Carson do the voiceover like Ray Parks’ Darth Maul voiceover in Star Wars: Episode 1. Either way will be fantastic, the creators of the game won’t allow ANY director 2 kill this franchise 4 anyone so I wouldn’t worry guys!!
Posted by Mac on January 27th, 2009kratos cannot be black because if the gonna follow the story right it will show how he got covered with his wifes ashes. and gerard butler would be good but the problem is hes tiny vin deisel whould be the best and we need the director of 300 for this movie and make it bloody as possible if they do it right this movie will be epic like the game!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by chaos on February 18th, 2009vin diesel for kratos.
Posted by lameass on February 22nd, 2009this movie will be SICK
Well then I should play him
Posted by Anthony on March 7th, 2009if u pick the wrong guy the movie will never make it
Posted by Anthony on March 7th, 2009Well I agree with some of u…GoW is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Yes I will be pissed if they don’t make this movie an R rated one. With regards to the actors this movie is wayy too big for any lame actor like any wrestler pumped up on steroids. Sure they fit the body frame but come on this movie has the potential of becoming one of the greatest movies ever made with the right cast. Djmon or wut ever his name is…would be great for the role bc he’s an amazing actor…if he is kratos he will carry this movie to win awards…but I don’t kno if he fits the greek image with him being black n all. I guess I’m satysfied with that prison break dude as he does fit the image and hes an all right actor. Gerrard Bultler is cool too but I dunno if he can pull off krato’s dark image either…I still see him as the awesome good king from 300. Speaking of 300…I swear this movie should be made by Zack Snyder. But of course I guess its too late 4 that so I guess the rat will have to do…I jus hope he doesn’t fuk it up.
Posted by Carlos on May 11th, 2009I think you all are crazy!! goldburge and deisel as kratos?? The wrestler Batista should be kratos. He has the build, mentality and the look in his eyes that we need for the god oof war!!!Dont you think..
Posted by tireburnin on May 27th, 2009vin deisel would be perfect for it batista is not at all kratos build plus if you think about it he even sounds kinda like him
Posted by speedemon91 on June 29th, 2009OK
Posted by ZacieTerror123 on October 2nd, 2009Djimon Hounsou is perfect. Vin Disel is greatn but just isnt cut out, goldberg IS just a dumb body builder and why does he have to be greek, does that even matter, like is it gunna say in the credits hes greek . . . nope its not, no one would know hes greek in general. Jaffe deff needs to look at the script of course. Ratner is not a bad guy either, he could do it, but there are alot of other directors that SHOULD do it, the guy who made 300, or the guy who made Riddick, or of course steven spielberg haha, JUST KIDDIN, over all though im thinkin the movie will be good, its not a hard game to follow and it would make alot of money! im a beast at the game and i know it like the back of my hand, i know what the phuk im talking about.
Guillermo Del Toro the guy responsible for putting together HELLBOYs films BLADE 2 and many other eerie films should help out on GOD OF WAR!
Posted by Terence on November 9th, 2009pls i can wat to wach this movils i love playing the game so much pls i want movil.
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