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Ronald D. Moore deed IGN’s San Diego Comic-Con 2025 unrecorded amusement contiguous to sermon his agelong vocation penning immoderate of the astir memorable sci-fi and phantasy shows of the past respective decades, from Star Trek to Battlestar Galactica to Outlander to For All Mankind. Next up for Moore is Amazon’s adaptation of God of War, which Moore is serving arsenic Executive Producer and showrunner on.
For starters, Moore said that portion of people Kratos volition pb the show, his lad Atreus volition besides beryllium a large portion of the series. This possibly isn’t that surprising, but is inactive the archetypal confirmation we’ve got connected that beforehand that the begetter and lad squad volition beryllium halfway to Amazon’s God of War.
Indeed, the conception of parent/child relationships, and successful peculiar missing oregon absent parents, has been a taxable of Moore’s work, going backmost each the mode to his archetypal Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Bonding,” which depicted a kid onboard the Enterprise who was orphaned aft an distant squad mission. Deep Space Nine, which Moore worked connected aft TNG, features Captain Sisko and his lad Jake moving guardant successful beingness aft the decease of their wife/mom. Battlestar Galactica besides deals with themes of parent/child strife, and present present we are with God of War which, successful the 2018 game, virtually starts with Kratos and Atreus preparing the ceremonial pyre for Kratos’ wife.
Read connected to find retired everything the tight-lipped Ronald D. Moore had to accidental astir God of War.
IGN: What drew you to God of War? I cognize you've said you're not truly a gamer. What was it astir the spot that funny you?
Ronald D. Moore: It was conscionable erstwhile I started watching it, I started looking astatine the cutscenes together, and there's truthful overmuch worldly there, and I truly responded to the characters. I responded to the communicative of Kratos and his son, and past they acceptable retired connected this epic travel successful this satellite that was finely elaborate and truly interesting, and there's a batch of combat and absorbing monsters on the way.
But I kept coming backmost to this communicative of begetter and son, and it was conscionable affectional and it was different, and I hadn't seen thing similar that before, and I had nary expectations due to the fact that similar you said, I'm not a gamer. I knew the title, but I didn't truly cognize what the communicative was, truthful I didn't truly cognize what I was going to beryllium looking at, and I was conscionable taken with it. And truthful I said, yeah, I'd emotion to bash it. I deliberation it's truly interesting.
IGN: And you haven't truly played, you've watched cutscenes, but you haven't really played it?
Ronald D. Moore: I've tried to play it. I proceed to effort to play it, but I grew up successful the arcade era, truthful I tin bang away, conscionable springiness maine a Defender console oregon an Asteroids console, I'll footwear your ass. But it's conscionable a antithetic thing. My household tin bash it. My woman tin play video games. My woman plays Skyrim, but I deficiency the musculus representation of my thumbs. And truthful Kratos is warring the troll and I'm perpetually like, okay, which one's the B button? No, I'm dead. It is that benignant of thing. But I try.
IGN: How would you picture the code of the show?
Ronald D. Moore: The code of the amusement is trying to emulate the code of the game, which is there's this epic journey, this heartfelt communicative of these 2 men mounting retired connected this happening to grant the representation of his wife, Atreus’ mother. So it has this affectional heart, but there's this consciousness of past of who Kratos is, this enigma astir his past, what helium represents, the emotions that he's going through. So there's a value to it, but not truthful overmuch value that there's not enjoyment on the mode and there's spectacle and there's tons of things going connected successful this world.
IGN: I deliberation there's a spot of a taxable done your work, which is simply a azygous genitor oregon a missing genitor that goes backmost to your Next Generation spec publication wherever we dealt with a unit subordinate who died and near down her son. I cognize you didn't make Deep Space Nine, but evidently Ben Sisko and Jake are dada and son. The mom's gone similar Atreus’ mom. Battlestar Galactica gets into this stuff. Is this thing that’s a taxable that you're alert of that's successful your work? And could this beryllium portion of wherefore you're funny successful God of War?
Ronald D. Moore: It's a recurrent theme. I mean, I'm ever funny successful it, and it's a classical theme. It goes backmost many, galore eons. It's not thing I bash successful particular, and I deliberation it's due to the fact that it's a breached family. Broken families with missing radical that person ruptured relationships are endlessly interesting. There're ways of bringing retired quality due to the fact that there's a pain, there's a trauma, there's thing that's happened and they're trying to enactment done it. So it's ever a bully mode to acceptable up a play to benignant of research character, and I deliberation that is wherefore I respond to it.
IGN: What is your instrumentality connected Atreus arsenic a character? Obviously Kratos has agelong been the look of the franchise, but what are you hoping to execute done the portrayal of Atreus?
Ronald D. Moore: Well, again, we privation to grant the crippled and what they laid retired for Atreus’ journey. Here's a young antheral who doesn't cognize his begetter precise well, that sets retired connected this mission, and on the mode they larn astir each other.
IGN: So successful presumption of Kratos, there've been antithetic incarnations of him. Are you acquainted with the earlier versions of God of War? And is determination a accidental that we volition get small dollops of that?
Ronald D. Moore: Well, maybe, you'll person to hold and spot it.
Interview conducted by Scott Collura.
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