Emmy-winning director Frederick E.O. Toye is on deck to direct the opening pair of episodes of God of War, according to Deadline. Pre-production for the Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM show is reportedly underway now in Vancouver.
God of War has received a two-season order.
Toye joins the much-anticipated project alongside showrunner Ronald D. Moore, a veteran of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Battlestar Galactica, amongst others.
Toye is a prolific TV director with a long list of credits dating back two decades, stretching from episodes of Lost, Alias, and Fringe through to The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Designated Survivor, and Westworld, and to recent high-profile hits like The Boys, Fallout, The Terminal List, and The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. Toye also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for his contribution to the first season of the 10 out of 10 FX series Shōgun.
Little is currently known about the God of War show, which was first revealed to be in the pipe back in 2022. However, it is clear that it will be unsurprisingly based on 2018’s God of War (followed by God of War Ragnarök in 2022), which revamped the series and pivoted from being rooted in Greek myth to a focus on Norse mythology.
The original God of War was first released on PS2 back in 2005.
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