{"id":881995,"date":"2026-09-03T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881995\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:44:11","slug":"dave-bautista-shows-off-god-of-war-transformation-to-play-kratos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881995\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Bautista Shows Off God of War Transformation to Play Kratos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDave Bautista<\/a> is back in the gym and showing off his muscle gains to play the super-strong Greek hero Kratos in the upcoming adaptation of the \u201cGod of War\u201d video game<\/a>. The actor shared a video of himself flexing in the gym and revealed that he\u2019s three weeks into his weight training regime, with two more months to go.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThird week in to weight training again. Two more months to get to where I need to be. Like ridin\u2019 a bike!\u201d he wrote as he gave a very Kratos-inspired roar into the camera while music played.<\/p>\n

\n\tBautista officially signed on to play Kratos on Aug. 20, taking the reigns from Ryan Hurst after the original actor suffered an on-set injury and Prime Video recast the role. Hurst tore his bicep on set and needed surgery that would have delayed restarting production into 2027. Filming originally began in Vancouver back in February, and all the scenes with Hurst will have to be reshot with Bautista. Prime Video gave \u201cGod of War<\/a>\u201d a two-season order, with the two seasons set to shoot back-to-back.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series will follow the story of the two most recent \u201cGod of War\u201d games, in which Kratos must raise his ten-year old son Atreus (played by young actor Callum Vinson) while battling gods of the Norse pantheon. Per the logline, \u201cFather and son Kratos and Atreus embark on a journey to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye. Through their adventures, Kratos tries to teach his son to be a better god, while Atreus tries to teach his father how to be a better human.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBautista, a WWE veteran and mixed martial artist, is no stranger to playing large, muscular characters. He starred as Drax the Destroyer in several \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d and \u201cAvengers\u201d movies, and he\u2019ll next appear in \u201cRoad House 2\u201d and the \u201cHighlander\u201d reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Bautista is back in the gym and showing off his muscle gains to play the super-strong Greek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,126494,75,107394],"class_list":["post-881995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-dave-bautista","tag-entertainment","tag-god-of-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}