I'd put up with some grimdark gory torture-murder-fucky elements in it because of the source material, but because it's just about everywhere already, I won't see it as an actually interesting feature.
If I were doing it, I would limit that to flashbacks and intentionally juxtapose Past Kratos' extreme violence against Dad Kratos' more restrained approach to problems. Make the whole point be that he's kinda realized that his Spartan upbringing fucked him up emotionally and that he's trying not to pass that on to his kid.
That'd certainly be better than a P R E S T I G E approach, especially an Alex Kurtzman one where, I dunno, Boy is tortured and murdered in a gory way in a cheap one-off gimmick and there's a confusing and contradictory moralistic lesson after nine more episodes.
If God of War is by and large a Dad of Boy familial adventure, I might actually be interested.
I could see that languishing in development hell forever, just like the adaptation of The Last of Us.
My mind went there first because, really, there's a lot of similarities lmao
I'd be a bit less interested in that, as a matter of personal preference.
Seriously I think it could have potential
I'd put up with some grimdark gory torture-murder-fucky elements in it because of the source material, but because it's just about everywhere already, I won't see it as an actually interesting feature.
If I were doing it, I would limit that to flashbacks and intentionally juxtapose Past Kratos' extreme violence against Dad Kratos' more restrained approach to problems. Make the whole point be that he's kinda realized that his Spartan upbringing fucked him up emotionally and that he's trying not to pass that on to his kid.
That'd certainly be better than a P R E S T I G E approach, especially an Alex Kurtzman one where, I dunno, Boy is tortured and murdered in a gory way in a cheap one-off gimmick and there's a confusing and contradictory moralistic lesson after nine more episodes.