After the recent runaway success of The Last of Us, many are now anticipating video game adaptations on the small screen. It must be said that HBO’s flagship series, which was a hit with us on Amazon Prime Video, proved that it was possible to adapt the world of a video game to perfection. recipe? Faithfulness to the original work and clever expansion of the world, all in a television format that allows you to take the time to develop the story without too many compromises.
As ProgrammeTV.net reminds us, Amazon and Netflix, riding on the success of The Last of Us, have started developing adaptations of the PlayStation games God of War and Horizon, respectively, and they should closely follow their boss’s model.
“The same care and formula that we used for The Last of Us will be used for Horizon God of WarPlayStation Productions head Asad Kizilbash said on the official PlayStation podcast.
We’ll tell you the story of the game because we can. Because it’s a series, we have time to do it, we have enough episodes to make it happen. We won’t try to squeeze the story into a two-hour movie. You’re going to understand the story of the game, but we’re also going to find opportunities to go deeper and explore other characters and create a little more world that you can’t do in the game. It’s exciting for me, the fans are going to love it because they’re going to see that game come to life, but also a lot of new things like what they did with The Last of Us.
It looks like we may be in for an interesting version of both video games.
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While no release date has been set yet, we do know that the Horizon Zero Dawn series will be adapted by Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman for Netflix. Released on PS4 in 2017, the game follows the adventures of Aloy, a young woman searching for her origins in a post-apocalyptic world 1000 years after our era.
Based on ancient mythologies, the God of War show follows the story of Kratos, a Spartan warrior haunted by his past and sent by the Greek gods to kill Ares, the god of war. The series, among others, will be developed by Raf Judkins (Wheel of Time) for Amazon Prime Video.
While you wait to discover these next nuggets (probably), dive back into the fascinating world of The Last of Us, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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