Sony Eyeing Dwayne Johnson to Play the Protagonist for $500,000,000 Video Game Franchise’s TV Series Adaptation on Amazon Prime

WWE stars have a history of starring in popular shows and movies. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has to be somewhere on the top of that list. The Brahma Bull played his first lead role in the movie The Scorpion King in 2002. Since then, fans saw him climbing up the celebrity ladder to become one of the highest-paid Hollywood stars now.

It looks like one of the top media and tech companies, Sony, is looking forward to hiring Dwayne Johnson for a role. This role would require him to fit into a popular protagonist from the world of modern video games. If you are into AAA video game titles, then the news would surely excite you.

Dwayne Johnson: Soon to become Kratos?

It looks like demigod characters suit Dwayne Johnson pretty well. After confirming his role as ‘Maui’ in the live-action adaptation of Disney’s Moana, Johnson is all set to adorn the role of yet another demigod. This time around, he’s going to be much more brutal.

One of Sony’s best-selling video game franchises, God of War, is confirmed to be getting a TV show adaptation. For the live-action adaptation of the $500 Million franchise, producers are reportedly trying to get The Rock on board. This could be mainly because of his social-media popularity and how he fit right in Kratos’ physical appearance.

Ever since this insider information leaked, fans have started pointing out alternative possibilities for the role. For a long time, a section of WWE fans has been wanting Triple H to play Kratos’ role in a live-action adaptation of the ‘God of War’. So, this is also giving room to an ideological conflict among WWE fans.

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While fans debate about who is the right fit for the protagonist, there seems to be ever-increasing pressure on the production house.

Dwayne Johnson’s potential production house is under pressure

Live-action adaptations of video games are not new. In fact, there have already been a number of them. Fairly recent ones include ‘The Witcher’ on Netflix and ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO. The latter one was also a video game franchise owned by Sony and received fair success on television. This post-apocalyptic TV series brought the production house of God of War under pressure with its success.

Fans of the video game franchise may be eager to know the storyline that the show will follow. However, nothing much has been confirmed at this point in time.

For now, only The Brahma Bull’s presence as the protagonist has been rumored.

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Stay tuned to keep yourself up-to-date on the story.