What a year it’s been for God of War fans, who were finally treated to good news surrounding the highly anticipated live-action series in the works at Prime Video. After casting news for the show was released one-by-one, it was announced back in February that cameras were officially rolling on Prime Video’s God of War show, with Ryan Hurst set to star in the lead role of Kratos. Hurst previously voiced and did the motion capture work for Thor in God of War: Ragnarök. God of War fans were also surprised when Santa Monica announced at the PlayStation State of Play back in June that a new spin-off game was officially in the works, God of War Laufey, starring Deborah Ann Woll as the titular character. Santa Monica displayed 20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay footage during the announcement.
After Amazon dropped the first-look photo of Ryan Hurst as Kratos back in February to announce that production was underway, there have been few updates surrounding Prime Video’s God of War series, until yesterday. News broke yesterday evening that production on God of War had come to a halt after leading star Ryan Hurst suffered a torn pectoral muscle performing a stunt, an injury that could take up to a year to fully recover from. Later in the evening, it was reported that, instead of waiting for Hurst to recover to resume production, Amazon was instead going to recast the role of Kratos so that filming could get back on track quicker. The studio has already shot four full episodes, which will all be redone once a new actor steps into the role.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
Who Else Stars in Prime Video’s ‘God of War’ Show?
Kratos leaning over Atreus drawing a bow in God of War.Image via Prime Video
Prime Video’s God of War series is skipping the Greek mythology part of the story and jumping directly into the Norse chapter of Kratos’ saga, meaning that Season 1 will loosely adapt the events of the 2018 Game of the Year-winning God of War game. Callum Vinson has been tapped to star as Kratos’ son, Atreus, in God of War, with Ed Skrein playing his primary antagonist in Season 1, Baldur, son of Odin and brother of Thor. Prime Video has enlisted Mandy Patinkin to play the All-Father, aka Odin, in God of War, with Ólafur Darri Ólafsson starring as Thor, the God of Thunder. Teresa Palmer has also been cast as Sif with Sonya Walger playing Freya.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Prime Video’s God of War series.
