Dave Bautista Reportedly In Talks To Replace Injured Ryan Hurst As Kratos In God Of War Series
https://gameinformer.com/2026/08/03/dave-bautista-reportedly-in-talks-to-replace-injured-ryan-hurst-as-kratos-in-god-of-war
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BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 50 pts · 27d
Just get the voice actor from the game, he looks like Kratos, he sounds like Kratos and he can fucking act.
natecox@programming.dev · 25 pts · 27d
I assume you mean Christopher Judge, in which case we also get to see a bunch of bigots lose their fucking minds over black Kratos.
Edit: I just looked it up, the earlier voice actor was also black. Win/win.
greenbit@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 27d
Kratos is black in the games tho.
It would be really funny to mess bigots up with black casting as well
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 26d
He isn't, though. He's Greek and his biological kid is like the whitest European ever.
I mean I don't care about the casting having the original voice actor would be dope but I don't understand why something so wrong got so many upvotes.
There's pictures of him before the curse that turned his skin bright white
Kratos & his family https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/godofwar/images/1/10/Kratos%27_family.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100716012620
Kratos & his brother as kids (Kratos on the left of the picture) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Young_Kratos_and_Deimos_GoS.jpg
He's a very tan Greek dude.
greenbit@lemmy.zip · -9 pts · 26d
That's very ethno-/skin-centric.
You can call him lightskin/albino/white-passing but black is still black
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 26d
Ok
qarbone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
Since when was Greece part of the African diaspora?
greenbit@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 26d
Please tell me you're joking and not getting caught in bait meant for bigots
qarbone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
I've had 5 hrs of sleep in the past 2 days. I have no idea what you're getting at
natecox@programming.dev · 3 pts · 27d
I doubt that bigots are going deeper than "he looks white" is all I'm saying.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 25d
He is not black he is brown.
greenbit@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 25d
Sure, a valid option. But you're meaning how he is and not how he looks right?
nullspace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Would painting the ash all over his skin count as whiteface?
FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 27d
And he doesn't need a bald cap because he's not a religious weirdo
glimse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
He looks pretty much nothing like Kratos. Agreed on the other points, though.
popcar2@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 27d
Oof, they're still looking for a replacement? This has to have delayed the show by at least a year, and they still have to re-record all those scenes with kratos.
Bautista seems like he could fit the looks but I don't think he's a very good actor from the movies I've seen him in.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 11 pts · 27d
He definitely has the look but his voice isn't really all that gutteral. He's less of a raging psychopath out for revenge and more of a comedian who needs to stop and drink water halfway through the show.
I suppose it's problematic that the Voice Actor for the videogames most people know were usually dark skinned.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
If they are looking at Bautista, I'd be surprised if this isn't new Kratos instead of original series Kratos. He wouldn't need to do "raging psychopath."
otter@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 27d
Have you seen him in Blade Runner? This scene usually comes up in discussions about him
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N38Zb495edQ
IWW4@lemmy.zip · -6 pts · 27d
Yeah the love that scene gets is mind boggling.. he is completely unremarkable in that scene.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 25d
I think that's the thing though. Unless you're doing some crazy villain or something, most people are unremarkable. He feels like just a person going about their day, and then realizing something shitty just happened. He has a feeling of knowing it's already over, but still has to go through the motions and deal with the shit. It's not like it's the best acting I've ever seen, but it's very good particularly because it's unremarkable.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d
The problem is if they don’t, they will have to also recast the kid. Kids grow up fast.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 27d
I juat need to hear him say, "BOY"
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 27d
I dont know how I feel about this.....
I think he could do it, he just doesnt look like Kratos at all
silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 27d
just get tealc
darkmogool@feddit.org · 1 pts · 26d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 27d
Christopher Judge is RIGHT THERE!
Archer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
Teal’c made it into the big leagues, I’m so proud of him
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 26d
It should be Tom Hardy. He'd make an amazing Kratos!
IWW4@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 27d
Oh fuck me.. hard pass on this shit. Bautista is such a block of wood on screen..
dawcas@scribe.disroot.org · -4 pts · 27d
Shouldn't they hire an actor? You know, someone that knows how to act.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 27d
Dave took acting classes after the first Guardians of the Galaxy film due to the same criticism you're making now, and subsequent things he's been in you can see the improvement. Even tho, as a professional wrestler, he'd been acting for years. Y'all know that shit ain't real, right?
tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 27d
For real, i didn't even knew him was a wrestler, i only knew him from cinema
greenbit@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 27d
Bautista can: Blade Runner and Dune and even Guardians of the Galaxy
You're probably thinking of Dwayne
dawcas@scribe.disroot.org · -1 pts · 27d
Nope, I was thinking of Bautista. Man, the rock would be even worse...