{"id":413596,"date":"2026-01-15T01:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:55:21","slug":"ryan-hurst-is-kratos-in-god-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413596\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Hurst Is Kratos In &#8220;God of War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ryan-hurst-is-kratos-in-god-of-war.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ryan-hurst-is-kratos-in-god-of-war.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ryan-hurst-is-kratos-in-god-of-war\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official, Ryan Hurst will play the lead role of Kratos in the upcoming live-action Amazon Prime Video series based on the \u201cGod of War\u201d video game franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Hurst is quite familiar with the franchise, the \u201cSons of Anarchy\u201d and \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d actor previously voiced the Norse god Thor in the video game \u201cGod of War: Ragnarok\u201d.  Christopher Judge played Kratos in the games.<\/p>\n<p>In the series, Kratos is Spartan by birth, and a god by nature. Raised in a martial culture, he rose to command armies in service of his homeland until one day he made a fateful deal with Ares, the Greek God of War and lost his soul in exchange for being victorious in battle.<\/p>\n<p>The series will be set many years later and follow the storyline of the Norse mythology-centered 2018 reboot game (and its sequel \u2018Ragnarok\u2019).  In the series, father and son Kratos and Atreus embark on a journey to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye.<\/p>\n<p>Through their adventures, Kratos tries to teach his ten-year-old son to be a better god, while Atreus tries to teach his father how to be a better human.  Ronald D. Moore serves as showrunner with Frederick E.O. Toye directing the first two episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Hurst has built up plenty of acclaim for his work over the years, most notably for his role as Opie on FX\u2019s \u201cSons of Anarchy\u201d and films like \u201cSaving Private Ryan,\u201d \u201cRemember the Titans,\u201d \u201cWe Were Soldiers\u201d and shows like \u201cBates Motel\u201d and \u201cOutsiders\u201d.  The actor will be in Chris Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d this Summer.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet Ryan Hurst, your Kratos in the God of War series coming to Prime Video. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W1kFgW3GtF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/W1kFgW3GtF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrimeVideo\/status\/2011529372608364835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix It\u2019s official, Ryan Hurst will play the lead role of Kratos in the upcoming live-action Amazon Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-413596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}