Ronald D. Moore Reveals Amazon’s GOD OF WAR Is Already Renewed for Season 2

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It’s tough when a highly touted TV project loses its creative team before the show even comes out. Hard time all around, uncertainty abounding. Amazon’s high-profile adaptation of Sony’s beloved God of War game franchise parted ways with its showrunner and executive producers in October 2024. But that dark time ended quickly. It was a really rough…weekend, I guess? God of War very quickly received a new showrunner. And God of War‘s new showrunner wasn’t just anyone—joining the Prime Video God of War series was a highly respected and proven writer-showrunner, Battlestar Galactica and For All Mankind creator Ronald D. Moore.

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Moore admits that though he’s helming the God of War series, he’s not a gamer. He shares that he “took a stab at it” but couldn’t conquer the controllers. “‘Press R1.’ Which one’s R1? Oh, I’m dead,” Moore joked. But what Moore does have is a rich history developing some excellent series for TV. Moore returned to Sony TV following his departure in 2020. During his initial tenure with the studio, Moore developed or created long-running shows Outlander for Starz and For All Mankind for Apple TV+. Both shows are continuing and have spinoffs on the way; Blood of My Blood and Star City, respectively. Moore will serve as EP for both the flagship God of War series and any spinoffs.

After two years on the project, God of War lost its original writers and showrunner in 2024. The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins had been at the helm, with The Expanse creators Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus writing the series and serving as executive producers. Deadline learned Sony and Amazon were looking to hire a whole new writers room following “creative differences” with the trio of writers. Moore has likely had plenty of thoughts about that God of War writer’s room.

The God of War series will almost assuredly adapt the 2018 PlayStation megahit and 2022 sequel, God of War: Ragnarok. Both feature Greek demigod Kratos having slaughtered the pantheon of Greek god and retiring with his son to Scandinavia where he must contend with mythical figures of Norse mythology. The first of those won Game of the Year.

Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for TopMob. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Instagram and Letterboxd.

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2025-03-18 22:06