God of War movie gets Saw writers

"Lets play a game" ~ Kratos.I'm boycotting all of these video game movies. I'm tired of watching games get massacred on the silver screen. You cannot take a video game that offers a 7-9 hour experience and cram it into a 2 hour window, their hope is that by taking an established character they can skip all of the backstory in the film and focus more on the conflict, but all that does is encourage lazy story telling, and corner cutting (take Silent Hill for example), and its not worth the ticket price to see that.

If it would have been James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the original SAW writers...I could have been a little bit hopeful...but you know...we will see.

It will be a gory movie, that's for sure. And Liam Neeson shoul be Zeus, he's perfect for the role.

Kill me, kill me now. The GoW franchise has amazing potentials for movie adaptations and hollywood went and shit all over it. Might as well just make this a direct to dvd and call it a day. Hell, make a flash animation film with stick figures and call it a day.

ill see how it is... but wth?

Who cares...?

Saw writers......so that means it will be gory and suck really bad.

History wasn't kind to films and games mixing. Maybe this'll be a breakthrough (doubt it though).

"Melton and Dunstan wrote Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D."

This is why we can't have nice things.

Anyway, Jason Momoa for Kratos. I do hope that horrible Conan movie didn't f**k up his career too bad.

Not filled with confidence about this one now.

"God of War movie gets Saw writers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbK_dbsCu0

I think maybe Vin Diesel could be a good candidate for the role. Hopefully it doesn't become a disaster like the Wrath of the titans and clash of the titans. Those movie didn't have the action hyped up on the trailers. Hopefully they make it a gore and action packed film and don't ruin the Kratos character.

why not the writers from 300, the director of the Spartacus series, and and industali light and magic for effects....that would be the perfect combo for a GOW movie

Considering the Saw writers can't write, this movie is already doomed.

With these writters there will be enough gore in it.

Hope the story and special effects will be cool.

Can you hear it? That's the sound of this movie sucking harder than a black hole filled with pornstars and vacuum cleaners.

The writers of the Saw series? Really? What, did the writers of Steven Seagal's direct-to-video hits like "Pistol Whipped" and "Born to Raise Hell" want too much money? The guys who wrote the TV spin-off series of the Geico caveman commercials weren't available? Was Universal afraid that hiring a hundred monkeys to work at a hundred typewriters might trigger another writers' strike?

I sometimes wonder if Hollywood doesn't secretly have a wager going to see which studio can produce the crappiest video game adaptation.

Out of all the video games based movies so far, Assassin's Creed looks like the best one to get a good start. I am so glad the Ubisoft has more control since it is THEIR franchise and they will do everything to keep it in line.

What's up with all these game-based movie announcements? Are they planning the destroy some of the best franchises in this industry?

What is up with this recent "MAKE MOVIES OUT OF EVERY GAME!" craze?Video game movies are doodoo, I honestly cant remember even one that was good. And the Saw writers? Sure yeah thats promising, almost zero chance of being any good. This makes me worry since a God of War movie has ALOT of potential to be good but how is someone gonna make anythign epic in one and a half hour? Thats one of the reasons why movies piss me off. You cant stuff all that lore, character developement ect in such a short time. Especially not with poor writers.

I should play as kratos

Games based on movies and movies based on games usually suck. I'm not sure this will be any different.

God of war is an exciting series and full of rich content and mythos. You would think this would be enough to make an amazing movie. I'll try and remain opomistic but video games that become movies are rarely very exciting, deep, or thought provoking. They are rarely ever that good either. Can we say Bloodrayne?

If i wasnt excited about this before... Well this doesnt help :(

wow I seriously can't wait for this, should be epic