Deadline is reporting that Sony and Amazon have tapped Sons of Anarchy and God of Battle: Ragnarök actor Ryan Hurst to play Kratos within the upcoming live-action God of Battle sequence.
Hurst, who performed Thor within the 2022 God of Battle sport, will probably be swapping roles for the present, and can lead the sequence based mostly on the storylines of the trendy GoW video games, which discover Kratos interacting with (and infrequently preventing) figures from Norse mythology. We nonetheless don’t know who will probably be enjoying his son Atreus, nevertheless it’s cool to have Hurst on as somebody who’s intimately conversant in the supply materials.
Together with enjoying Thor, Hurst’s notable credit embrace enjoying Opie in Sons of Anarchy, in addition to Beta within the Strolling Useless franchise, each in the primary sequence and the Concern the Strolling Useless spin-off present. Most just lately, he has performed Miles within the new Netflix western sequence The Abandons.
If you would like a fast refresher on Hurst’s appearing chops, somebody was type sufficient to compile all his scenes as Thor in Ragnarök.
That’s the one casting information we now have for now, however on condition that the present appears to be snug selecting from the sport’s solid, it could be fascinating to see Sunny Suljic reprise his position as Atreus for the sequence, although the 20-year-old actor is perhaps a bit too outdated to play the kid as he appeared within the 2018 sport at this level. Atreus was nonetheless a younger teen by the point Ragnarök got here round, nevertheless, and Suljic nonetheless seems fairly younger.
There have been rumors that Christopher Decide, the actor who performs Kratos within the Norse God of Battle video games, was additionally up for the live-action position final 12 months, however Decide himself appeared to debunk these in an X post in September.
The God of Battle sequence is coming from author, showrunner, and govt producer Ronald D. Moore, who’s finest identified for his work on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
