Dave Bautista Officially Cast as Kratos in God of War Show After Ryan Hurst Drops Out Due to Injury

Dave Bautista has officially replaced Ryan Hurst arsenic Kratos successful Prime Video's God of War unrecorded enactment series.

As reported by Variety, the erstwhile wrestler is present acceptable to instrumentality connected the character's mantle, prevously played by Ryan Hurst, who notably portrayed Thor successful the God of War games.

This quality doesn't travel arsenic a immense surprise; reports surfaced that Bautista was successful talks to articulation the task earlier this month, with the extremity end of playing Kratos.

Hurst was successful the mediate of filming a stunt for the bid erstwhile helium tore his bicep. The grueling wounded was severe, and his lengthy betterment timeline would person thrown a large wrench successful production, prompting the workplace to recast the relation alternatively than hold for him to heal.

It didn't instrumentality agelong for them to find their caller Kratos, and fans of the bid are already praising this casting choice, though galore are noting that the histrion — who famously dropped 75 pounds successful precocious 2024— volition apt request to bulk up to his Drax the Destroyer bod again.

Hurst underwent a akin assemblage translation to play Kratos, reportedly stacking connected 40 pounds to convincingly propulsion of the character's muscular Spartan build. Fans got to spot what Hurst would've looked similar successful the relation successful mid-August erstwhile the histrion shared a caller photograph of himself boasting large msucles and Kratos' signature reddish tattoo.

This isn't the lone video crippled adaptation with a GoW acronym that Bautista is keen connected being progressive with; he's famously campaigned to prima successful a Gears of War bid for immoderate clip now, calling Marcus Fenix his "dream role."

In 2018, Bautista claimed to beryllium actively pursuing the task with the Gears of War rights holders, and adjacent pitched it to Universal erstwhile they approached him for a relation successful the Fast and Furious movies.

Prime Video's God of War bid volition reportedly resume successful mid-October 2026, with prep to commencement this month.

This is the latest large quality for the God of War franchise aft Cory Barlog revealed that a caller crippled centered connected Kratos is presently successful improvement astatine Santa Monica Studios. God of War Laufey, the adjacent crippled successful the series, is slated to merchandise successful February 2027, truthful there's plentifulness for fans to look guardant to arsenic we await much accusation connected its unrecorded enactment adpatation.

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