‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Director Wants to Make a Rated R ‘God of War’ Movie with Dave Bautista
Earlier this year, Pacific Rim Uprising director Steven S. DeKnight had noted on Twitter that he was interested in adapting the God of War video game franchise into a feature film, and he brought up pro wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista as his Kratos of choice. Speaking with ComicBook.com today, DeKnight elaborated on that dream project.
As it turns out, DeKnight has actually had conversations with Sony about it!
“I’ve always been a fan of God of War. I think the latest game was just so beautiful and phenomenal. I would love to tackle a God of War movie or I would love to see somebody put that up on the big screen,” DeKnight told the site. “Somebody asked me, ‘Well, who would you have to have Kratos?’ And immediately for me: Dave Batista would be the man. I think he can do anything.”
He continued, “I had some early conversations with the good people at Sony PlayStation about it and my biggest thing is, look, you gotta approach it like a book. Approach it like adapting Jaws. For people who’ve read Jaws, the movie is very different but they’re both fantastic. So you have to be able to take the source material and make it work as a movie. Which means a lot of times you’ve got to change things, which is very dicey obviously because you don’t want alienate video game fans, but you have to make a film that works within the context of a movie by itself. Very difficult. I would love to tackle it.”
DeKnight also touched upon the fact that a God of War adaptation would simply have to be rated R, noting “It’s funny because when I sat down with the Sony PlayStation people, one of the first things we both said is R-rated because I always use the original Conan the Barbarian as my touchstone, that it needs to be R-rated. I don’t think there’s a way to tell that story and make it PG, nor should it be.”
Currently, we must note, nothing is actually in the works on this front.
