In November 2012, the writers told GameSpot that "God of War" would "improve on films like "Clash of the Titans" and "Immortals" by taking a step in a bolder direction." Melton said that Sony "encouraged" them to make it different from other films in the same genre. It was also confirmed that Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, the producers of the "Uncharted" film, would be producing the "God of War" film via Atlas Entertainment. In early 2013, ""s Game Director, Todd Papy, said he did not know the status of the film. The main writer behind the "God of War" video games (2005–2013), Marianne Krawczyk, said her main worry with the movie adaptation was casting Kratos: "The player has a personal experience with him, and then he's going to be embodied by a different actor, he's going to have a different voice, he's going to say a lot more words. So I think it will be hard to get that across," but she was hopeful that it could be done. As of , , the film is without a director, no actors have been confirmed, a release date has not been set, but the script has been "turned in", and the film has a budget of $150 million USD.