{"id":419619,"date":"2026-01-17T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419619\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:41:11","slug":"teresa-palmer-joins-god-of-war-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419619\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Palmer Joins &#8220;God of War&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/teresa-palmer-joins-god-of-war-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sky UK\"><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\/teresa-palmer-joins-god-of-war-series.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"teresa-palmer-joins-god-of-war-series\"\/><\/a>Sky UK<\/p>\n<p>Aussie actress Teresa Palmer (\u201cA Discovery of Witches,\u201d \u201cHacksaw Ridge\u201d) has been cast in the much-anticipated \u201cGod of War\u201d TV series at Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Based on PlayStation\u2019s ancient mythology-themed video game, she will join Ryan Hurst in the lead role of Kratos.  Here she plays Phoebe\/Sif, wife of Thor and the goddess of family. <\/p>\n<p>Other previously rumored cast members include Max Parker (\u2018Boots\u201d) as Baldur, and \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson as Thor.<\/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 the 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-themed 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 \u2013 ultimately butting heads with Odin.<\/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>Pre-production is currently underway with a two-season order having been handed out.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/teresa-palmer-cast-prime-video-god-of-war-1236684477\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky UK Aussie actress Teresa Palmer (\u201cA Discovery of Witches,\u201d \u201cHacksaw Ridge\u201d) has been cast in the much-anticipated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-419619","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\/419619","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=419619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}