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Oh No! Brett Ratner Officially Directing God of War?!

September 30, 2008
Source: UGO
by Alex Billington

God of War

Oh no - I think everyone's worst fears have been realized! Brett Ratner is officially attached to direct the God of War movie currently in development. This has been rumored for a while, so it is definitely not the first time we've heard Ratner's named mentioned alongside of God of War. But with this confirmation, I think it may be safe to say that this movie probably won't be that good. And it's a shame because it has the potential to be great. This news comes from UGO, who recently caught up with Ratner. During his answer to a question about what's next, God of War was one that he mentioned was in the works.

I know that I should be waiting to find out more about the project before instantly discrediting Brett Ratner, but most people don't like him anyway. I really think God of War is riding the fine line between either potentially being amazing or being terrible, and with Ratner's involvement, I fear it's leaning towards the terrible side. But focusing on other things, the guys at UGO bring up some very good points about its rating. I think this definitely needs to be rated R, but I doubt it will be. I've got a feeling the studios will want this to be a big summer tentpole, meaning it'll have to be PG-13 in the end.

Beyond all this other discussion about the God of War movie, I'm still anxious to find out who else they'll get. So we know Ratner is involved, but the next big question is who will be starring in it as Kratos?

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1

Brett Ratner and a PG-13 rating?!?

From this day forward the God Of War movie shall now be known as God Of Suck.

Jedi on Sep 30, 2008

2

why do people hate him so much oh he made 1 bad movie x 3 wasn't the plague do we forget he made Red dragon which mind you was rated R and an awesome film as well as the Rush Hour Series which was pretty funny if you ask me

nelson on Sep 30, 2008

3

X3 was good and so was the first rush hour. The sequel and Red Dragon were okay. The only disaster i have seen of his is the third Rush Hour, that movie was shit. So everyone should shut up now, ok? Honestly, at the very least the movie would be entertaining trash, which is fine by me - video games mostly never have truly cinematic stories…or at least ones that are interesting.

Itri on Sep 30, 2008

4

X3 was not good.

Richard on Sep 30, 2008

5

OK let me reiterate, if I had no foreknowledge of the X-men universe, the characters or really anything other then X-men cartoons for reference, then this movie would then be awesome.

Richard on Sep 30, 2008

6

but it wasn't f'n terrible like most people claim people say same about sm3 it wasn't good but it wasn't f'n terrible it just didn't live u to the hype we built it up to be since the 2 previous films from sm and xmen were so good trust if somehow next batman movie is not as good at tdk it will get shitted on

nelson on Sep 30, 2008

7

alex, i see your going with the safe vote again and mentioning in your article that you dislike the idea cause everyone else hates him already. An original idea would be nice. Just kind of throwing it out there. And if you do think its a bad choice i can fully understand, but how about a little insight other than the obvious reason. Plus i lost you at the point of mentioning it could be amazing or terrible. Wow, now thats some journalism. In my professional opinion maybe it will be good or maybe it will suck donkey balls, hope that helpseverybody. No, it doesnt. Regardless, remember they could have gone with UWE BOLL, so count your blessings.

what ever on Sep 30, 2008

8

all i can say is the only person capable of playing the lead role is The Rock… if not him then who?

DDOT3 on Sep 30, 2008

9

how about Djimon Hounsou he was rumored awhile back

nelson on Sep 30, 2008

10

Vin Diesel? I don't know I cant think of anyone.

Richard on Sep 30, 2008

11

God of War- Potentially could have been a good movie, possibly a great movie
Brett Ratner- The one thing garunteed to ruin any potentially good movie. X3 is liked only by people who know nothing about the X-Men. No clearly thinking X-Men fan can honestly say that the movie is good. Back of track, Brett Ratner is going to find some way to screw the movie up. The game is rated M for a reason. That would then mean that rating the movie PG13 would cut out most of the stuff that required the M rating. Regardless of who plays Kratos the movie will be a dud

Chris Henry on Sep 30, 2008

12

They should hace tried to give it to Zack Snyder, with an awesome 300 Style filming God of War would eveen attract myself. I never played the game but heard great things, and if you can grab people from outside your hard core fanbase that is how you spell success.

MrSammich on Sep 30, 2008

13

This is the least objective reporting site I think I have ever seen, it's a fucking laugh reading some of Alex's post! It's his site so he can go nuts. But believing that God of War could have been a 'great' movie? Hahah, I 've played the games and I would not pay to see this on the big screen. I didn't have any desire to play the ame again, let alone watch a movie adaption. It will be another horrible video game adaption with most likely brilliant set peices and rendering (just like Silent Hill) yet a paper thin script and characters we don't give a shit about. Yay, sounds brilliant.

As for Brett Ratner I'm not a fan but then again who cares I won't be going to see his movies. However the few hundred million who do will be paying for it and that's all that matters. As for his previous efforts none have really struck a chord with me but I saw Rush Hour 3 when I was travelling around Europe and although I wasn't properly watching it (on a bus, small screen, gtfo) I must say it did 'look good'. Expensive set peices, relatively unimaginative yet dynamic cinematography - you know, the sort of things you can afford when you make movies that gross in the hundreds of millions.

Mike on Sep 30, 2008

14

chris tucker and jackie chan made that movie
x3 sucked

ken on Sep 30, 2008

15

You got to be kidding me, Bret screwed up big time in RushHr3 and X3, these two movies could have been much better.
Hopefully things change, and a better director ie 300 would direct God of War.
Lets just hope this dont turn down the trash!!!!

Jumper on Sep 30, 2008

16

#9 that's not a bad choice either! he never crossed my mind… #10 Vin Diesel sucks! you must be Vin Diesel trying to get a buzz goin…lmao

DDOT3 on Sep 30, 2008

17

ridley scott should direct it. Gladiator was the shit

Drake on Sep 30, 2008

18

I did read somewhere Vin Diesel meant to play as Kratos. Rush Hour 3 was ok, but would have been even better if they got Van Damme as the villian (he initially was going to be part of RH3 - delays due to Chris Tucker wanting more $$).

But strictly speaking, I hope Brett is not directing the film defo a screw up with a PG-13 rating when the concept of the game is R-rated. They will not make any money as only fans of the video game would like to see, and they shud stick to the same story line as the video game and try make it better. Like Max Payne, trailers look damn good.

Fearl3ss on Sep 30, 2008

19

Vin Diesel will star… Duh!

Justin on Sep 30, 2008

20

Batista from WWE. Teach him how to act and he would kick ass.

sol on Sep 30, 2008

21

Don't forget the asian sidekick. Seriously, why do they keep doing this to us??? And yes, X-Men 3 ruined the X-Men trilogy.

Bobby on Sep 30, 2008

22

Wow! This sucks! I played the game and loved it and the whole time I was playing it I was thinking "This could easily be made into a great movie". Now my hopes and dreams have been shattered. Thank you idiot studio execs who don't know your assholes from your elbows. I appreciate you ruining what could have been an excellent film.

ClerksFan on Sep 30, 2008

23

hey atleast uwe boll isn't directing.

Darrin on Sep 30, 2008

24

# 3, No, X3 wasent good at all if you know the comics or even the cartoon series. Ratner came in knowing nothing about X Men, just by the movies.

God Of War is an amazing game, Its sad they let that terrible director direct it. Why do game companys just toss there games to bad directors like this one? Guy who ruined X-Men will ruin God of War. Awsome.

Ryan on Sep 30, 2008

25

He's not the worst director out there, remeber… remeber the Uwe Boll films,

now thats awful Bret is nowhere that level of suck, so give him a chance, be it a snow ball chance in

hell or any guy sitting through an entire show of "The View"

Xerxex on Sep 30, 2008

26

Yes!!!! THAT MEANS NO 'CONAN' FOR RATNER…YES!!! ; )))

m4st4 on Oct 1, 2008

27

Brain…melting….

favourite game…meets least favourite director…

damn it all to hell

I'm an optimist however and believe that Karma should serve us up one healthy slice of Godofwar pie as retribution for the X3 massacre

pretty please, this man MUST be able to learn from his mistakes surely?

mikesta on Oct 1, 2008

28

Brett Ratner's a hack, in my opinion he's never made a single good film. I wonder why any studio actually thinks it's a good idea to give him the go for a movie which he's bound to monumentously screw-up. Other than that the whole PG-13 rating is little more than speculation, an R rating nowadays doesn't automatically mean failure.

SlashBeast on Oct 1, 2008

29

Why God… Why!!!??? Fingers crossed he won't F this up. This could be such an amazing movie if done right.

K on Oct 1, 2008

30

I know who'd be great as Kratos! Nicholas Cage! Not really though. That's a joke.

If this ends up being rated PG-13, it will be terrible. It won't represent the game correctly at all.

-Peter- on Oct 1, 2008

31

o.k. mike must be out of his mind anyone who played this game
can't honestly say its not great and if they they do their crazy.
no matter who directs this movie it has the potential to be great
and if they mess it up they deserve to be punished exspecially with
G.O.W III coming out in march the filmcould make a killing if it comes out next year.

john on Oct 1, 2008

32

I hate to admit it, but I'd also go with Vin Diesel.

Ivan on Oct 1, 2008

33

If Hollywood has the nerve to ruin the Street Fighter and Resident Evil pictures then the raping of this young franchise doesn't shock me at all. Atleast it's American and the filmmakers may have a tighter relationship with the original staff, who knows. I was never big on God of War and its strawberry swirl hero, anyway.

Frame on Oct 1, 2008

34

All Japanese games and anime, Hollywood everytime screw it up coz they dont even no the prop story background, they tend to make it all PG-13 to attract more audience. Only jap makers can pull it off.

But Dragonball may hav some potential lime-light which follows the baisc storyline from the same writers - Akira Toriyama.

A teaser can be seen on the following link (quality is poor):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLoyjcK2zI&eurl=http

Fearl3ss on Oct 1, 2008

35

For anyone defending Ratner's credibility as a director… HE (PASSIONATELY) WANTS TO MAKE A GUITAR HERO MOVIE. Apologies for the all caps, but seeing as how I can't reach through your screen and physically shake you and slap you in the face…

I'll admit it's possible that this could turn out to be the one that surprises us all, and makes us realize he's a good director who's just made some bad movies, but I think it's entirely more plausible that he's going to take a great license and turn it into a half-baked brainless travesty. On top of that, you add the fact that there's an extremely high probability that the studio is going to cut out anything that even remotely offends (gore, 'excessive' violence, nudity, language, etc.), and what we're going to end up with is a stylized shell of a movie that barely resembles the original property.

You know what? Screw it. Let's just take anything that anyone has ever liked, give it to a team of lazy writers, include a couple of dick/fart jokes and an obnoxiously ignorant character who will explain the entire story to the audience so they don't have to pay attention, then pass the script along to a director who has more ego than talent, give them a beer budget with champagne expectations, have studio execs (who collectively possess the creativity of a bottle of bleach) revise the script and fight the director at every turn, THEN proceed to censor the end result so that it's hardly recognizable, but manages to slide in at a PG-13 rating so more kids will see it and ticket sales will initially be higher, despite managing to alienate post-pubescent audiences.

Oh… wait.

Stiles on Oct 1, 2008

36

at least its not uwe bole…

avelanch on Oct 1, 2008

37

Ahem…

I wouldn't call it my WORST fear.

Brett Ratner directing the Casablanca remake wouldn't be good.

After the dust settles from all of the lawsuits flying aound the Tolkien franchise, I wouldn't want to see THE HOBBIT wrenched from Del Toro and handed to Ratner.

I wouldn't want to see him direct the ALIEN or THE THING remakes.

None of these things are my worst fears, but…

These are a few of my UNfavorite things!

Feo Amante on Oct 1, 2008

38

This seems just like a big waste of time altogether. Why make a movie about this game? It doesn't make sense in any medium - but hearing this news that Brett Ratner is helming his project…just a shame.

I do not care at all about this rated R or PG.

Conrad on Oct 1, 2008

39

Video games have NEVER translated well into movies and with Brett Ratner at the controls it's sure to be a terrible movie. I agree with some of the posts above, anyone who can defend Ratner with a straight face is a fool, he's never made even a decent movie and seriously wanted to make a guitar hero movie. Enough said.

SlashBeast on Oct 2, 2008

40

if this isnt rated R or as good as it has the potential to be i will murder every one involved with it

the end

nick on Oct 2, 2008

41

Hmm…forget Batista. Faran Tahir (the leader of the "Ten Rings" in Ironman) would be a good Kratos.

Then again, he wouldn't want to ruin his acting career with Brett Ratner, now would he…

sol on Oct 3, 2008

42

they should get jimon hounsou (the main black character from blood diamond) to play kratos

Jizzle on Nov 12, 2008

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