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David Jaffe, the creator of the popular God of War video game franchise, has blasted the first-look at the series that was released by Prime Video. Jaffe called the image “dumb, terrible” and “so bad in so many ways.”
Prime Video’s God of War series will be starring Ryan Hurst, best known for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans (2000) and Opie Winston in the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2012).
With production beginning last month, Prime Video released the first-look at the series, which featured Hurst as Kratos and Callum Vinson as Atreus, his son.
Father and Son. Behold your first look at Kratos and Atreus in the God of War series now in production. Their journey to the highest peak begins. pic.twitter.com/KCnElm4OpL
— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) February 27, 2026
David Jaffe, however, the creator of the series, expressed a similar disappointed sentiment as the fans.
God of War creator David Jaffe ripped the first-look at the series shared by Prime Video as “dumb, terrible” and “so bad in so many ways”
“I’m sure everybody’s trying real hard, [but] it’s so dumb. But let’s be incredibly clear, okay? Two things can be true. This can be a terrible image, and it is. It’s so bad in so many ways, which we’ll talk about in a moment. And Ron Moore is awesome, who is the showrunner… This guy is a juggernaut of a talented fellow. I have absolutely no doubt it is going to be a good show,” Jaffe said on his YouTube channel.
“Kratos in this pose with this expression, not the guy’s face, but this expression, he just looks stupid,” he explained. “If you’re going to reveal, to most people, a brand new character that you hope is going to carry your series, for the first time, and they’ve never really seen this before, and this is the way you introduce them?”
“Maybe that’s conscious. Maybe they’re like, ‘Well, what we really want to focus on is the father-son story. And if we focus on him being like, Spartan rage, and all that, maybe people are like, ‘I don’t want to watch that show.’ Ok maybe. But then, at that point, could you find a picture that doesn’t look like he’s s——- in the woods? Cause that’s what the picture looks like.”
In addition to Hurst as Kratos, God of War will also star Callum Vinson as Atreus, Teresa Palmer as Phoebe/Sif, Max Parker as Heimdall, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Thor, Mandy Patinkin as Odin, Alastair Duncan as Mimir, and Ed Skrein as Baldur.