Screenwriters hope to stand out in genre
What we know about theGod of Warmoviedoesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but the latest update on the adaptation from screenplay writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan has me feeling slightly better about the situation.
Speaking to ShockTillYouDrop, Dunstan commented on films such asClash of the TitansandImmortals: “Those movies can inform theGod of Warto step in a more bold direction. Not to join those ranks, but to stand head and shoulders apart like other reinventions have done within that genre. The satisfying element is to look at those movies as a commentary on the genre and now say something different.”
Melton remarked “Sony games, you think they’d be sacred about the origin story and all of that, but they were encouraging us to make it different from those movies and if that means going in dramatic shifts, they were cool of it. And they’re involved.”
For films based on pre-existing works of fiction, I’d rather they capture the essence of what made thesource material goodthan try to repeat the whole experience in a different medium where scene-for-scene translations might not turn out so well. This seems like a step in the right direction forGod of War.
Dunstan, Melton: God of War Adaptation Different Than Clash of the Titans, Immortals[ShockTillYouDrop viaGamesIndustry International]
