God of War

In July, it was announced that Sony Pictures had brought on board Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to write the new screenplay for the studio's God of War movie. In addition to work on the upcoming Pacific Rim, Melton and Dunstan have worked on films in the "Saw" series and the recent Piranha 3DD.

On Thursday, IGN got a chance to ask the duo about the big screen adaptation of the video game series. They told the site that their first step in updating David Self's previous draft of the script was to humanize the main character Kratos more. 

Kudos to Shock pals Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan because they've just landed a pretty big video game adaptation gig.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the duo behind many of the Saw sequels, The Collector and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim have been hired to write God of War, based on the video game series of the same name.

Violence, monsters, sexuality...er, violence?  Yeah, these guys are going to have a blast.

Atlas Entertainment is going to produce the adaptation.