Over the last few months, Ronald D. Moore’s God Of War TV series has been heating up at Prime Video, with the show scoring a two-season order right outta the gate and landing some pretty big names — including Ryan Hurst as Kratos, and Mandy Patinkin as Odin — to lead it. And now, with pre-production well underway out in Vancouver, today we’ve learned who’ll be playing the titular war god’s son, Atreus, in the series: rapidly rising star Callum Vinson.
Already star of Peacock’s Long Bright River and SyFy’s Chucky spin-off series, and soon to be seen as a young Jason Voorhees in A24’s upcoming Friday The 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, pre-teen Vinson is already building quite the CV — and is the perfect age to be playing Kratos’ ten-year-old son. Amazon’s own bio of Atreus describes him as “the ten-year old son of Kratos, who grew up in a remote forest cabin, isolated from the rest of the world and raised almost entirely by his mother Faye. He is an accomplished archer, has an affinity for animals and is intensely curious about what lies beyond the confines of his forest home. After his mother’s death, Atreus is left with a cold, distant father who he barely knows and who knows little about him in return. Nonetheless, Atreus yearns for his father’s approval and is desperate to prove he is strong enough to survive in a harsh and dangerous world.”
Amazon’s Atreus bio tallies with what we already know of Moore’s show, an ambitious adaptation of Santa Monica Studios’ God Of War and God Of War: Ragnarök, a sprawling Norse saga that reinvents the iconic PlayStation hack-and-slash franchise as something more inherently cinematic and character-driven. As we already know, the series will initially follow Kratos and Atreus as they embark on a a perilous journey to scatter the ashes of their wife/mother, Faye; and as players of the game will also know, that is only the beginning of Kratos and Atreus’ odyssey into a world of mafioso-like Gods and unfathomable monsters.
Vinson joins a buzzy cast elsewhere including Max Parker as Heimdall, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Thor, Alastair Duncan as Mimir, and Danny Woodburn and Jeff Gulka as brothers Brok and Sindri in Moore’s series. We don’t yet know when God Of War will strike Prime Video, but BOOYYYYYY are we ready whenever it does. The Last Of Us, watch your back!
