God of War Movie: Hounsou as Kratos?
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, God of War game director David Jaffe reveals that there’s a script for the upcoming movie. Written by David Self (Thirteen Days, Road to Perdition), said script will be sent out to “a huge-name director.” (Raimi? Jackson? Snyder? Spielberg? GIBSON?!?!?) Jaffe also hopes that Benin-born actor Djimon Hounsou (Gladiator, Blood Diamond) will play Kratos, despite the fact that Kratos is Greek: “You have to get past the fact that Kratos is Greek, but in terms of the way he looks and his acting ability and his physique — I can't think of a better choice.” Hounsou is certainly enigmatic and sexy, but who do you think would best fill Kratos’ silver screen shoes? (After watching 300, I would shell out 10 bucks any day to see Gerard Butler as a half-naked Greek.) ...Oh, and let's hope this song doesn't make it into the movie.
[via Destructoid]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 11 March 2007
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Djimon Hounsou seems to me the wrong choice to play Kratos.
I can see it, with the white makeup...
While I get his physicality for the role, and Djimoun sure is a very fine actor indeed, people should remember Kratos is greek.
Whats next.. a Mandela biopic played by Brad Pitt?
Sigh.
T
they should have a white guy playing the role of kratos since in the game he is greek and WHITE!!! NOT BLACK!!!
But he's also covered in white ash if you've actually played the game so it won't matter their actual skin color