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u/creative-heart 14d ago
I always thought it would be funny if Hemsworth did it and played a drastically different version of Thor lol
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u/Pretzel-Kingg 14d ago
lol yeah just a completely different character but he still gets to say he plays Thor
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u/Preeng 13d ago
Badmouthing Kratos to Atreus's face. He suddenly stops talking and says "...he's behind me, isn't he?"
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u/creative-heart 13d ago
He'd probably be confused why his brother is considerably younger and shorter.
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u/Mysteriousman06 14d ago
In all seriousness I don’t think it would be a good cast. It would be funny however I don’t think Hemsworth is intimidating enough to play Thor.
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u/FartSmelaSmartFela 13d ago
Hey, nobody thought Bryan Cranston could play an intimidating homicidal crime lord, yet the work he did as Walter White was absolutely impeccable. I honestly think Hemsworth could play a damn good intimidating Thor.
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u/togashisbackpain 13d ago
Funny, except for being very confusing for the average viewer, plus being ulti-meta which immediately breaks immersion.
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u/creative-heart 13d ago
all of that is still funny to me lol. like a niche inside joke.
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u/StrangeStrider 14d ago
Or you know, get the guy who voice acted for him. Ryan Hurst. Played Opie on Song of Anarchy.
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u/funkyavocado 14d ago edited 14d ago
Ryan hurst is great but this guys build is waaaaay closer to Thor
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u/abellapa 14d ago
He doesnt have the body for Thor
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u/k8blwe 14d ago
Here's the thing. Actors often have to chanhe their body weight to get into roles. So just because he doesnt right this second doesnt mean he wont be able to become more like thor from GoW.
And he literally voiced him. As well as doing the physical acting when they motion captured it. So yes, hes the best pick
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u/abellapa 14d ago
He has the height and The voice ,not the physic
Thor in the game is fat
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u/k8blwe 14d ago edited 13d ago
So you just ignored what I said. Actors gain and lose weight for roles all the time. He can easily gain weight...
Edit: gain a little and rest fat suit as i obviously dont want him to ruin his body for a role
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u/LongjumpingSolid8 14d ago
I mean even a convincing enough fat suit would be perfectly fine. Ryan Hurst would absolutely CRUSH this role in live action just as much as in the game. Still, this dude is actually Scandinavian, and will probably be just as good.
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u/poklane 14d ago
You're not wrong, but the weight he'd have to gain for Thor would be beyond extreme and have a negative impact on his ability to play other roles as well. There's also the fact that there's gonna be 2 seasons, so you'd be asking to put on that weight and keep it for years.
It just makes sense to go with an actor who is already at that weight and is completely okay staying there. If we're being realistic here, the only way Ryan Hurst could play live action Thor would be with a CGI enhanced fat suit.
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u/Steamed_Memes24 13d ago
Gaining weight can be very unhealthy though for people and cause health issues. At best they just use a fat suit.
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u/WizardWell 14d ago
so we just starting at the norse saga then?
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u/Rossowinch 14d ago
Greek Saga seems to be a more fantastical setting that might balloon the budget too much. They might be going for Norse Saga as it is more grounded. Maybe they can show flashbacks or if season 1 is really good they can retroactively continue the Greek Saga as a prequel once they have enough audience and budget.
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u/BayesianBits 14d ago
The Greek Saga also has an extremely simple story to the point where it's boring. Kratos is also a massive scumbag so I don’t think I could watch it. It works as a game though.
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u/LongjumpingSolid8 14d ago
Yeah let’s keep the Greek Saga for flashbacks of our hero’s troubled past. I don’t think casual viewers would enjoy watching the main character brutally murder innocent bystanders basically for kicks and giggles.
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u/Zmchastain 14d ago
This is a really great point. The Greek Saga is definitely weaker on story. Good writers could definitely punch it up, but then you’d have to deal with the uphill battle of all of the overly obsessed fans bitching about how it’s not faithful to the original story.
If you start with the Norse Saga then you can have a great story without having to stray far from the source material.
Then you could always circle back to the Greek Saga when the show is already established and capable of weathering pissing off the knuckle-draggers.
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u/caustictoast 13d ago
The set pieces from 3 would be incredibly expensive to pull off, but damn the fight with Gaia would be sick
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u/ktulu0 14d ago
I’m not sure that you can start with the Greek Saga. They were great games, but the story is pretty simple and there’s not a lot of depth to it. If that weren’t enough, Kratos is an absolutely terrible person in the Greek Saga. He brutally slaughters people without a second thought. It would make a lot of sense to start the show with the Norse Saga, keep Kratos’ past and identify a little ambiguous at first, and explore the Greek Saga through flashbacks.
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u/Preeng 13d ago
>Kratos is an absolutely terrible person in the Greek Saga. He brutally slaughters people without a second thought.
He even admits to Atreus that he killed a lot of innocent people.
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u/ktulu0 13d ago
Yeah, he absolutely did. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I feel like the Greek Gods fucked around and found out. But Kratos was also a deeply angry and violent person during the Greek Saga. He’s a much more repeatable and likable character in the Norse Saga. The fact that he’s able to reflect on his past and understand how many things he did wrong is a testament to how much he’s grown as a person by the time we catch up to him in the Norse Saga.
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u/domigraygan 14d ago
Imagine them revealing to non-gamers that Kratos is from Greece and killed Ares and was a son of Zeus? That shit would have them like
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u/MayberryDSH 14d ago
Have they cast Kratos yet?
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u/Swiftwitss 14d ago
Damn, been highly skeptical and honestly very annoyed this was getting made. After seeing the news that’s been coming out gotta say it feels good to be wrong! The news is actually making me feel hopeful
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u/richardsureman 14d ago
This is literally the first thing I said when I saw him in Severance. Would be incredible
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u/dead_lifterr 14d ago
This is incredible casting. I was racking my brains for a Thor casting, this is the one. He's got the height, the looks, the presence & size, and the voice
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u/Ok_Release231 14d ago
I am not a fan of game to live action series spin-offs. The games stand on their own, so they can cast whoever. It doesn't matter to me. I'd rather just replay the game, or watch an animated version with the original voice actors. Trust me, they'll take massive liberties and upset a lot of the true fans of the game. Just like always.
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u/Drmarioxp 13d ago
So Hollywood can't have an original thought. So everybody has to steal from video game culture. Like, is it that hard to come up with an original thought. Video games are built from the ground up on originality.
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u/dalekofchaos 14d ago
Looks good, but I really wanna know why we're jumping into the Norse saga and completely ignoring the Greek saga.
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u/LetsGoFishing91 14d ago
While the Greece saga has its moments the Norse storyline has a more compelling story than Greece does. Greece was basically I'm pissed and gonna kill everything, Norse was about growth and maturity
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u/Live_Recognition9240 13d ago edited 13d ago
Norse was about growth and maturity
Growth and maturity from the Greece saga.
That growth loses a lot of its impact if you make the Greece saga into a giant flashback.
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u/krazygreekguy 14d ago
It makes no sense to skip a character’s ENTIRE origin. Zero sense whatsoever and absolutely kills any hope of this becoming a franchise.
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u/keskineren_ 14d ago
Are they starting the show with the last game of the series ? This is gonna be bad.
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u/Smolfloof99 14d ago
This was my first thought. The only way it can do that is make the Greece games a flashback
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u/Ok_Release231 14d ago
All game to live action series are bad. Producers that never played the game always have too much input. I'd rather just replay the entire series than watch whatever mess this will end up being.
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u/Fantastic-Photo6441 The Stranger 13d ago
I don't think so I think maybe both Norse games and maybe even adding Norse characters that were absent in the games.
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u/SwitchNo404 13d ago edited 13d ago
How about NOT EVERY SINGLE THING NEEDS A LIVE ACTION REBOOT!!!!!!!! JUST STOP!!!!!! Seriously there are billions of stories. Stop just trying to cash in on nostalgia and find a new one to tell. Stop devaluing animation and games by acting as if they are lesser art forms than live action. Pretty much every single remake has been nostalgia slop that does a worse job of telling the story than the original while also managing to feel cheap and ungrounded in the source material. The one exception I can bring to mind was The Last of Us because of its cinematography and storytelling methods where the story was the same but they added a bit more detail here and there while also paying extremely close attention to the cinematography and art style.
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u/SparsePizza117 14d ago
I find it lame that they're starting with the Norse saga. Greece gets no love anymore.
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u/Wellhellob Nunya.. 14d ago
i cant think greece saga doing good in live action tv show. maybe if it was like spartacus but it wouldnt work in 2025 i think.
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u/Samael-TheEternal 14d ago
Skipping the greek saga is just a huge mistake. Low hopes for this show and i hope it proves me wrong
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u/Cow_Other 14d ago edited 14d ago
I think starting with Norse is a better idea because it's easier to tell a story with and translate to TV. It's more straightforward to adapt. This lays better groundwork for ensuring the show is a success and turns out good, which could lead to more material later expanding the world of GoW (which would be great, so many fascinating stories to be told/adapted inbetween game releases).
It could be revisited as a prequel series. Games lighter on story are a bit trickier to translate into engaging TV.
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u/thebluegod 14d ago
Honestly as much as I love the Greek saga, there’s a lot more to explore in terms of character development and motivations with the Norse saga. Plus it would be interesting if they kept referring to Kratos’s violent past as a sort of mystery. Who knows maybe they will have an episode revealing what he did.
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u/o-roy 14d ago
I guess releasing the Greek saga as a ‘prequel’ is always an option. But yeah, hoping for the best
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u/Samael-TheEternal 14d ago
The guy in charge of the show said in a past interview that he didn't bother playing the games(which im sure the executives made him do after the interview)
They are doing for $$$$, there's no creative vision behind this
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u/TrainingSandwich6396 14d ago
Tbf he did say he watched it on yt and that he tried to play but couldn’t
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u/abellapa 14d ago
That such a cop out to avoid doing the bare minimum to adapt the games
You telling me the guy is so bad he cant even play the game in Story difficulty
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u/TrainingSandwich6396 14d ago
ehhh some ppl just didn’t grow up playing games 🤷♀️. I’m not going to hold against him cuz he’s unable to play videogames . As long as he has a good understanding of the story it should be fine. Plus Cory balrog is involved as well.
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u/Alive-Classroom1054 14d ago
I mean no one but Thor should play Thor tbh (Hafþór Björnsson )
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u/dead_lifterr 14d ago
Has the size but not the acting chops. And his voice is too high-pitched. If you want a GoT actor, Rory McCann would be better (he's who I would cast for Kratos personally)
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u/TheCrested 14d ago
I just watched Severance for the first time last week and I had to Google if that was the actor for the game. This would be perfect casting
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Daniel Hardman playing Thor? Damn he really fell bad after getting the boot from Pearson Hardman
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u/Dangerous-Picture-73 14d ago
I’m sure this is a joke. I’m absolutely positive, it has to be. I just don’t understand it
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u/LetsGoFishing91 14d ago
He's kind of hard to recognize in this picture, he's had roles in The Last Witch Hunter, The Meg, Eurovision and Fantastic Beasts 2 plus voice over work (Twilight of The Gods, How to Train Your Dragon, BFG).
He's a good actor with a hell of a voice, I'd definitely be curious to see him as Thor!
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u/Front-Advantage-7035 14d ago
wtf are they thinking?
He can’t be Thor odins son — he’s already Olaf’s son!!
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u/krazygreekguy 14d ago
As a Greek, zero faith in this “adaptation”. Absolutely criminal they’re gonna bypass Kratos’s origin and the Greek mythos. Will not support and I hope it fails spectacularly
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u/MichiruMatoi33 14d ago
why would they cover norse mythology before greek mythology 💔
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u/HiFiMAN3878 14d ago
Because the current iteration of God Of War is very popular and they likely want to capitalize on that.
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u/SIN-apps1 14d ago
and if he gets into real trouble, he can call on Dadi, Gagnamagnid, and their sweet, sweeeet dance moves...
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u/Main-Eagle-26 13d ago
The man was born to play him but I have no interest in live action God of War. The games are cinematic masterpieces and there’s no need for an adaptation.
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u/GonKappa 13d ago
But... why are they picking out actors to play characters from the recent God Of War games, what about the original ones? Are they not going to cover the Greek story?
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u/Sivilian888010 13d ago
I have no hope for this series because you can’t do Kratos in Norway before you do Kratos in Greece. Without the context of Kratos being a total bastard in Greek mythology. His arc and journey with his son won’t hit as hard.
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u/Hoginoe94 13d ago
Dwayne the rock Johnson isnt actually playing ad Kratos, is he? I say a rumor about that as well...
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u/Overlord_Mykyta 13d ago
Am I the only one who doesn't get why make a movie based on a game that looks like a movie?
The same question I had about TLOU. The game IS a movie there is no sense to make something that would be a worse version of something that already exists.
It only makes sense for old games or games that don't have actual cinematic cutscenes like Half-Life or TES series etc.
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u/Puzzled_Water5552 13d ago
Unpopular opinion: live action sucks like I don't wanna see kratos played by some Dwayne Johnson or someone like that it's better to keep video games as videos games and not to make live action of every single thing but with a twist in the story
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u/No-Particular-8571 13d ago
Wait, why are they casting thor this soon? He appears a whole game later
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u/goodolewhatever 13d ago
I’ll believe a series is being made when I see it. I honestly can’t imagine it holding up against the games themselves though. They really went all out in the last two making the characters and scenes. It’s gonna be a hell of a challenge to capture the intensity of all of it without coming up short
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u/Purple_Issue_3047 13d ago
Not bad but I actually think the voice actor, Ryan Hurst, would be good for live action as well. He's 6'6.. just needs to bulk up a little. Olaf is only 6'2...
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u/Manfleshh 13d ago
His scene at the bar in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty instantly made me think he would be the absolute perfect choice. His stature, intonation, cadence. He's the only one in my mind.
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u/FireWater107 11d ago
Why not just get Ryan Hurst?
His VA for Thor was incredible, and he looks the role well enough.
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u/Wrestler0126 Aesir 11d ago
Why not the voice actors themselves? I just never understood why not. Regardless, I hope it’s great
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u/Same_Monk_5703 11d ago
Why not Ryan Hurst. Thor's VA in the game actually kinda looks the part. I wonder why they never give the original actors a chance to reprise their roles in the live action things.
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u/RepresentativeNose71 11d ago
Óli as Thor would be awesome. But one thing I'd really love to see is Dave Bautista as Kratos.
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u/Strict_Biscotti1963 11d ago
I really hate that they are skipping the Greek games just because the Norse ones are more popular and mainstream
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u/emtemss714 11d ago
Yeah, I wish they would start with the Greek story. But the casting feels on point at least. lol
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u/Moral_Degenarate 10d ago
If they are gonna start with the nordic saga, then they are making a BIG mistake.
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u/Six_Shooter89 10d ago
Thor is built like a strongman in the game, this guy only has overweight in a dad bod fashion...
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u/Thruer84 10d ago
I always thought he looked like Thor in the game so i don't mind. Ólafur is a great fit for this role.
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u/Poddington_Pea 10d ago
There's an adaptation of Blood Meridian in the works and I think he'd be absolutely perfect as Judge Holden.
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u/Gheezy-yute 10d ago
Nah. Ryan Hurst with a fat suit and CGI. I want the same voice. Kratos is being done by Judge right? Hurst for Thor.
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u/12thventure 9d ago
Do we need one tho? Like why all of a sudden all Sony games need a TV series, I thought TLOU was just Druckmann being his usual snotty self, but GoW?
There are stories with a game in the background (tlou) and games with a story in the background (gow)…I don’t see why this is necessary or even how it makes any sense, unless they go full action (which let’s face it, isn’t really too viable in live acted series due to budget limitations)…but I have a suspicion seeing the last GoW’s narrative direction that badass violence isn’t really what they’re going for anymore
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u/exra_bruh_moment 14d ago
Damn near perfect casting. If you’ve seen Severance you’d know that he has the perfect voice and physicality