Daredevil actor Deborah Ann Woll has revealed that God of War Laufey was already planned before the 2018 game was released.
God of War Laufey was announced earlier this month as the finale to the Summer Game Fest season's PlayStation State of Play, with 20 minutes of footage being shown off from the upcoming PS5 game. While rumors of an Egypt-focused God of War have been around for a long time now, it turns out Faye's scraps with Egyptian gods – and gods of all pantheons, it turns out – have been in the works for a while.
In a panel at Game Con Canada (via CGMag), Woll is asked about the upcoming game, and says: "I've known about this for nearly ten years, and I haven't been able to talk about it." Woll explains that she found out in 2018, but it was planned even before then, as she adds: "When Cory [Barlog] brought me in to talk about doing Ragnarök and show me the 2018 game, he already had a poster for the Laufey game with me and a cube. A cube that's been there since the beginning. It's deeply a part of the lore."
Woll calls the role as the face of a new God of War title a "privilege," adding: "I feel nothing but gratitude and responsibility." She says, "I pinch myself that I get to be a part of this and that I get to lead the charge for a little bit of this kind of new direction. The other direction is going to continue going forward. But we're going to put a little time and focus on expanding this world and really trying to say, this is us doubling down on the world of God of War.
"We want this to be huge." Woll continues. "We want you to feel like there's such an untapped universe. And this is just the beginning of a step into some of that."
