{"id":245368,"date":"2026-01-22T02:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245368\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:24:30","slug":"god-of-war-tv-show-adds-major-villain-actor-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245368\/","title":{"rendered":"God of War TV Show Adds Major Villain Actor to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0God of War<\/a>\u00a0TV show\u00a0recently found its Kratos, and now has found another major character, casting its Heimdall in the upcoming live-action series.<\/p>\n

Who has joined the God of War TV show cast?<\/p>\n

Max Parker is set to play the of Heimdall in the upcoming God of War TV show. Parker, best known for his time on the Netflix series Boots, will join the cast that recently just added Ryan Hurst as its lead character<\/a>. Teresa Palmer is also set to star in the series<\/a>, in the role of Sif, Thor\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

Heimdall, one of Odin\u2019s sons and the watchman of Asgard, is one of the many Norse Gods and is best known in mythology for watching for invaders from Himinbj\u00f6rg, the place where the Bifr\u00f6st meets the sky. His godly powers allow him to possess incredible foresight and senses, and in the God of War video games, is portrayed as a villainous character who uses his foresight to his advantage in battle. <\/p>\n

\u201cHandsome and dynamic, he feels unappreciated by his father and underestimated by the rest of the family, and as a result Heimdall is constantly looking for ways to improve his position in the hierarchy and increase his stature and power,\u201d reads the characters description. <\/p>\n

The upcoming series \u201cfollows father and son Kratos and Atreus as they 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 according to a logline for the show.<\/p>\n

The road to God of War\u2019s live-action series beginning filming has been a long one. Originally announced in 2022, the series was originally being written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, with Rafe Judkins serving as showrunner to the series. In 2024, however, it was reported that all three had left the project after Sony and Amazon both reportedly wanted to go in a different direction.<\/p>\n

After the exodus of the three, creator Ronald D. Moore was brought in to serve as the series\u2019 lead writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Moore is a prominent sci-fi creator, dating back to his time as a writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. After Star Trek, Moore went on to develop and co-develop several television shows, including Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, and Philip K. Dick\u2019s Electric Dreams.<\/p>\n

Cory Barlog, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, Hermen Hulst, and Roy Lee have remained on the series to executive produce. Emmy Award-winning director Frederick E.O. Toye (Shogun, The Boys, Fallout) has signed on to direct the first two episodes of the series.<\/p>\n

God of War is a PlayStation action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studios. The show will follow Kratos, the God of War, who, \u201cafter exiling himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece, hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard,\u201d Amazon\u2019s description reads.<\/p>\n

Originally reported by Anthony Nash at SuperHeroHype.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0God of War\u00a0TV show\u00a0recently found its Kratos, and now has found another major character, casting its Heimdall in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[414,156,27538,143502,111,139,69,16505,6361,35846,3291,437,14857],"class_list":["post-245368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amazon","tag-entertainment","tag-god-of-war","tag-max-parker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prime-video","tag-sony","tag-sony-pictures","tag-streaming","tag-tv","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}