Sony Confirms Horizon, God of War, and Gran Turismo TV Shows in Development

Tom Holland will make a great Aloy.

More is more, right?

Depends on the casting.

Triple H as Kratos would’ve been perfect 5 years ago.
If it’s Tom Holland as Kratos & Mark Wahlberg as Atreus I’m out.

At least it seems like they got it right with TLOU.

@SoulChimera That image just made me cackle, well done.

I kinda hope Horizon is an animated show. Otherwise I'd be afraid the machines' CGI on Netflix doesn't live up to expectations (just seems hard to pull off without a massive budget)

Jokes aside, I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with these properties outside of games.

A really well drawn animated Horizon could be amazing. Powerhouse (who did Castlevania) are also doing the Tomb Raider animation. They could do a great job with Horizon. Get all the actual voice actors back for it too.

A super violent God of War animated series could be cool too.

@SoulChimera He'll make an even better Nissan GT-R

@Voltan Are you implying that the story and characters are not as important as the graphics even when it comes movies and tv shows? Because most people would agree with that statement.

@Bismarck I'm only saying that humans interacting with big angry machines is an important part of Horizon's world. Can't really make a Horizon show without being a pretty central part, can you?

@Voltan it does feel perfect for anime. I'd have preferred a big budget Transformers-bothering movie franchise for Horizon but so be it.

Gran Turismo though? That's a strange one, I think they should make it reality style and have people actually trying to complete the licences and missions but maybe that's just me.

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Can't wait for Chris Pratt as Kratos and Tom Holland as Atreus

Oh and for Aloy, the actress from IT would be perfect. The 'child' actress not Jessica Chastain!

I’m sorry what, is it April 1st? A Gran Turismo Tv show? Soooo Top Gear?

Christopher Judge as Kratos.

I said what I said.

@Voltan I recently watched Pacific Rim: The Black made by Netflix and think that style could work well with Horizon. You're right that to do it well in live action would probably be extremely expensive.

@BearFut_1800 I want to see the fuel challenges, would make excellent TV.

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@BearsEatBeets I need to check that out. Loved the first movie, the sequel was ok.

@Col_McCafferty the first half of the season would be them just trying to get their licences 😂

@Voltan I liked the first movie, I've not yet seen the sequel. I think the series is worth checking out, I enjoyed it.

@Atreus97 Agreed as he was the voice but I imagine having to paint him white would cause some outrage amongst the Twitter mob.

@get2sammyb I imagine a fair few episodes will be set in caves and talking around a fire to cut down budgets on the bigger robots.

I Hope Sony Considers Doing a Show Based On Syphon Filter And To Give Ratchet And Clank An Animated Show.

I have a bad feeling about this

Gran Turismo TV show?!?! 🤔

Animated Horizon in a similar style to Arkane League of Legends would be amazing. So much could go wrong with a live action. Gran Turismo as a tv show is just watching car racing as a sport, which already exists, surely?!

So much news today, so few announcements of a showcase to appeal to Sony's core....come on guys 😔

Ashly Burch is brilliant in Mythic Quest and already does the voice of Aloy; why not cast her as well?

Kratos? Alexander Dreymon from The Last Kingdom would be a great fit.

@Atreus97 I wonder who they'll cast as Kratos. Christopher Judge makes a lot of sense, but it'll probably be The Rock or something like that LMAO.

Every show is on a different streaming service. Bad time to be a PS fan if you want to watch all these shows I guess.

Sounds like a quantity over quality approach. Hopefully it doesn't turn out that way. A God of War show, in particular, sounds pretty awesome. Though I would hope it doesn't just follow the plot of the games. Ooor, maybe it should, given what happened to Halo. The Last of Us show just having the same story as the game is still hugely disappointing to me, however.

Uhh, too many video game adaptations, and I've yet to see one of outstanding quality. I'm hoping Super Mario will be something special. There's a lot going against it, but Nintendo has been so mum about it I'm thinking that means they very actively want it to be good.

I guess in the case of these Sony adaptations, Netflix having Horizon is worth believing in. If any studio has managed consistently decent adaptations, it's Netflix.

PlayStation Productions: "Let’s make our films and games only based on realistic third-person adventure games because no one cares Sly Cooper or Ape Escape!"

Umm...don't we already have a GT show? Like car shows and racing events and stuff? Strange choice but the other two make sense at least. Horizon would do well to go animated though like Castlevania style. Live action Horizon would be expensive AF.

Horizon would be amazing in the hands of HBO. It has so much lore that it would be perfect for a series.

Imagine season 1 is set back when Ted and Faro enterprises were doing his thing, hopefully they don’t do some annoying ass flashbacks to show that time period

I really wish that Sony would offer all their TV/movie products in their own app under one roof. Not that I want to have yet another streaming subscription to worry about, but I hate that these shows are all scattered across 4 or maybe 5 different services. Better yet, please Sony just give PS+ subscribers access to these shows through their existing PS+ sub. I’d probably even upgrade to the Extra or Premium tier if they would put all their TV and movies on it. (Because so far the game catalogue hasn’t convince me to upgrade) I’m sure these contracts with HBO, Netflix, etc are more complicated than that, but a man can dream!

Horizon series could be built using the Decima Engine. They don't have to worry about hardware restraints, so they can up the quality of the assets. Not sure how expensive that would be. Get the extra expertise and the series could be built in house.

If they do Gran Turismo as a documentary series showing Polyphony Digital’s work on the game series in the same style and appreciation for cars as the videos in GT7 I’ll watch it on the streaming service and buy multiple copies after the fact. Would make an excellent Father’s Day gift

Horizon and God of War, awesome. GT is...what? Like a story or a documentary?

I'll be a lot more interested in Horizon and God of War if they're done in the Castlevania animation style.

Can only imagine the GT series was a pretty hard sell, so much so no-one picked it up!

Bet the respective Amazon and Netflix bosses were left scratching respective heads about that one.
"It's a car show....about cars....starring cars!"
"What do they do?"
"They drive around! Amazing eh?!"

Is Tom Holland to young to play Atreus.....🤔🤔😁😁

God of War and Horizon could be great but what the hell was Sony smoking thinking of a Gran Turismo show?

Rose Leslie has to play Aloy surely. I mean Ygritte from Game of Thrones may as well as been Aloy. Its almost too perfect

I work for a major TV distribution company and contacted the acquisition team today about Gran Turismo needing a distributor... Don't think they will bite. They asked if it''s scripted (drama) or non-scripted (documentary or entertainment) and I couldn't provide an answer xD
Who knows though! They might contact Sony directly for more info.

Horizon on Apple TV+ was my dream...

@Milt Pretty sure they had an animated Sly Cooper movie coming at one point that got canned.

@suikoden I had the same exact question as well

For those that don't know, gran turismo TV show is inspired by winners of the GT academy becoming real life successful racing drivers

Wait is the God of War series based on the original Greek games or are they skipping to the Norse stuff? Cause it seams like a bad idea to skip 5 games of lore and character development.

I would love to see Erin Kellyman (actor who played Enfys Nest in the movie Solo) as Aloy.

First video games were about playing games, and movies were about watching movies, and the two things were different media. Then Naughty Dog made games into interactive movies, and then Sony just copied that template across their library. That was around the time that Lucas and Spielberg got on stage told us that the future of film and TV was Xbox One and would be interactive.

Now Sony tells us the games are going to become live service sandbox time sucks with mtx, and the single player narratives will be on HBO and you can't interact with them.

I can't wait for PS6 when we're told gaming is all about map creation and they just pre-install Unreal Engine tookits so we can make our own games and share them in a new sharing service that costs $20/mo to participate in (with demos from Media Molecule), meanwhile the narratives will be published in paperback by HarperCollins (Audible subscription included with PS Plus Ultra.)

@Atreus97 That.............ok, I'd watch that one.
@Octane ......aaaaaand you ruined it....

I would love to see JR Kratos play Kratos.

@NEStalgia no one ever said they were going to stop making single player games.

@NEStalgia

Think your tin foil hat is on a little too tight!

@Th3solution I like your idea that Sony gives PS subscribers access to these. Wish it will happen.

@Col_McCafferty Some of these as anime would be great. I would love to see one of the prolific anime studios make one of these shows and be able to stream it on Crunchyroll.

@twitchtvpat Companies rarely tell you they're going to drop the products you like before they're done selling it to you. No, they won't stop. But service games have a far greater ROI than single player game if successful. You can bet once they hit success with one, the well of investment for single player will run quite a lot dryer.

@suikoden I'd have agreed with you at one point....and yeah, I'm being hyperbolic. Sony would never give us UE tools for free with console purchase. They're not generous like that. Might pack in Dreams though...

@NEStalgia no offense that's a silly thing to assume. there is plenty of room for all types of games including single player games. its why they are expanding and bringing in more studios , they aren't down sizing by any means.

@Col_McCafferty she looks perfect for Aloy!

God of war would be Good as a movie , as a TV series not so much as it will be alot of boring stuff when all you really want to see is the action

@Milktastrophe
The only two of these I really care about is Last of Us and Horizon, so frankly I am set as far as streaming goes.